JOB DESCRIPTION:

Software engineering to perform a major upgrade to Bell’s flight test analysis and safety-of-flight system, the Computer Aided Flight Test Analysis System (CAFTAS). This upgrade involves transforming the current human machine interface (HMI) from character cell to a more modern Windows interface.

 JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

The candidate will be responsible for contributing to all facets of the CAFTAS upgrade project. These tasks include gathering user requirements, writing requirements specifications, conceptual design, detailed design, software development, quality assurance testing, documentation, and production implementation. The primary focus of this upgrade is to convert the existing character cell user interface to a more modern and user friendly Windows interface. Although the presentation layer of CAFTAS is target for this upgrade, all layers of the system will be modified including the analysis/business and data layers. Extensive rework based on Object Oriented Design principles will be performed. The candidate will be required to coordinate with the user community and work in various capacities with other development team members.

Requirements:

Speak and write English fluently

Working Knowledge
Web Server – IIS7
Databases – Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle RDB(desired)
Data Access – ADO.NET, ODBCLinked Server (desired)

Operating Systems –
OpenVMS 8.x
Windows Server 2005 (2008 desired)
Windows XP and 7 Pro

Development Tools –
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (desired)
SMG (some working knowledge)

Software Languages –
C++, C#, CSS, HTML, SQL
FORTRAN, DCL
JavaScript (some knowledge)

GUI – Web and Windows Forms

Virtualization (at least one of the following) –
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007/Server 2008
Sun Virtual Box
VMware Server