Core software engineering competencies

Managing requirements through the entire delivery and operational life cycle.

Designing systems to meet specified requirements and agreed systems architectures.

Specifying and designing software to meet defined requirements by following agreed design standards and principles.

Developing software components to deliver value to stakeholders.

Designing and developing reliable real-time software typically within embedded systems.

Ensuring methods and tools are adopted and used effectively throughout the organisation.

Planning, identifying, controlling, accounting for and auditing of configuration items (CIs) and their interrelationships.

Investigating products, systems and services to assess behaviour and whether this meets specified or unspecified requirements and characteristics.

Planning, implementing and controlling activities to synthesise system components to create operational systems, products or services.

Applying the processes, systems and functions required to make new and changed services and features available for use.

Assuring, through ongoing and periodic assessments and reviews, that the organisation’s quality objectives are being met.

Developing and operating a measurement capability to support agreed organisational information needs.

Applying appropriate methods to assure safety during all life cycle phases of safety-related systems developments.

Delivering management, technical and administrative services to support and maintain live applications.