Job Listing: Software Development Engineer (Entry Level)

Software Development Engineer (Junior/Entry Level)Software Development Life Cycle, SDLC, Object-Oriented Development,OOD, SQL, Crystal Reports, ReportWriter
The nation's leading health care services company is looking to hire an Entry-Level Software Development Engineer.
Position Description:
The Software Development Engineer is responsible for the development of software for Client-automated products. This includes:

Using requirements and designs to implement a solution.
Defining test plans and methods.
Executing testing.
Assisting with the deployment of new releases.

The Software Development Engineer must be accountable and responsible for working on business-critical products that operate 24/7/365 and are distributed nationwide to many clients.
The candidate must have the ability to provide Third Level support for all products.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The Junior-Level Software Development Engineer:

Facilitates the use and improvement of a Software Development Life Cycle.
Uses requirements and designs to implement a solution, defining test plans and methods, executing testing, and assisting with the deployment of new releases.
Performs Product and System Testing.
Ensures that product behavior meets expected behavior.
Ensures that all components are complete and ready for installation, assembly, independent testing, and production.
Develops, tests, and maintains product installation programs.
Issues logging, tracking, analysis, reporting and management.
Releases control and coordination for multiple products.
Participates in the Software Development Life Cycle for new and existing products.
Develops documentation, including:

Test Plans
Installation Instructions
Internal Release Notes
Design Documents

Performs other duties as assigned.

About Our Client:
Our Client is the nation's leading health care services company, with software and hardware technology installed in more than 70% of the nation's hospitals that have more than 200 beds. Additionally, they are America's oldest and largest health care services company, with its pharmaceutical wholesaling roots dating back more than 174 years. In fact, the Company created the first national drug distribution system. Our Client is also the largest pharmaceutical distributor in North America. Every day, they distribute one-third of the medicines used in North America, supplying more than 40,000 U.S. health care locations from Wal-Mart to the Department of Veterans Affairs to community pharmacies. They provide pharmaceuticals, medical supplies and health care information technologies that make health care safer while reducing costs.
Our Client:

Develops and installs electronic systems that eliminate the need for paper prescriptions and paper medical records and provides physicians with easy and secure online access to patient information.
Helps prevent more than 330,000 medication errors every week through bar-code scanning technology that helps to ensure the right patient gets the right drug at the right time.

Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Our Client employs more than 30,000 people across the nation and around the world.
This is a Direct Hire position, through Volt Technical Resources - a division of a Fortune 1000 publicly traded Staffing Industry Leader, based in Woburn, MA. We are among the largest IT staffing companies in the US for contract/temporary and direct hire placements and support most of the top rated IT companies on the East Coast.