Location: North York, ON

Contract Duration: 12 months with a possibility of extension

Job Title: Software Analyst

Duties:

Job Purpose

To perform design, analysis, programming and integration activities in the development of software for train control systems.

Main Responsibilities:

• Understands and follows the company's processes and procedures for developing mission critical software
• Implements near real time systems in C++
• Designs, codes, debugs, write test procedures and tests software code.
• Reviews code, test procedures and test results
• Analyses and implements correction for defect reports
• Perform engineering testing in the field and investigates problems in the field.
• Provides some input for cost estimates.

Skills:

• plus minimum 3 years relevant working experience - or equivalent
• Good command of C++ language including templates, STL, Boost, MFC usage
• Good command of C#, WPF (nice to have)
• Good command of the scripting languages Perl and Ruby
• Knowledgeable of object oriented techniques, multithreading, socket programming, Windows
• Good analysis skills, able to diagnose issues based on field logs and correlate events to failures
• Able to handle assignments within a medium to large scale software application
• Knowledgeable of the software development process
• Able to quickly integrate with the team and work independently
• Knowledge of software development environment (Microsoft Visual Studio, desktop simulator, target simulator , etc)

Education:

B. Sc., in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science for equivalent