· Participates in planning, architecture, and research

· Performs complex development activities that may require extensive analysis in areas including user experience, software design and solver research

· Employs best practices and helps to maintain them through technical reviews and mentoring

· Performs complex bug verification, release testing and beta support for assigned products.

· Researches problems discovered by QA or product support and develops solutions

· Researches and understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues. May work with strategic customers or proxies to assess needs and develop solutions

· Works independently with minimal supervision and may take on some planning and mentoring responsibilities

· Create unit, regression and/or system-level tests to validate thoroughly new features or changes