Roles and Responsibilities

Basic Purpose:

Work as part of a small, agile team to design and implement new features and technologies in a variety of different products throughout Quest Diagnostics. Deliver high quality, high performance code in an agile environment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop key product features within existing large-scale Java-based enterprise applications and new strategic initiatives that will drive system and operational efficiencies, measure system performance, and provide glue for complex solutions.
• Participate in the full SDLC involving design, implementation, testing, & launching.
• Participate in architectural and database design discussions as they relate to product direction.
• Develop features completely with focus on backend services components.
• Design and implement changes to systems that yield higher performance and resiliency while achieving lower operations overhead.
• Work closely and collaboratively with geographically-distributed team of engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
• Consistently define and apply technologies, standards and software engineering practices, mentoring a geographically-distributed team of developers.
• Contribute to the focus and effectiveness of the development team; tracking issues to resolution, monitoring the effectiveness of tasks, and providing status to the team lead.
• Communicate status to team lead