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Suncorp Systems Engineer Duties
Engage closely with the business as they provide really broad
range of
analytical and engineering duties covering platform support /
maintenance,
customer incident and work order engagements as well as systems
rollouts /
implementations.
Engages closely with the business, since they provide platform
support / maintenance info,customer incident and work order
engagements as well as system rollouts.
Stories:Teamwork: Talk about CSSituation problem: talk about
friend in car accident, coy amplifier pro!ect.Teamwork problem:
talk about cs and coy pro!ect where shoaib dogged
Team dispute / actual engineering problem: Talk about the "#$
section where one memberonly wanted to use mathematical e%uations
for the "#$ while & wanted to add in humaninput such as a mouse
to determine where abouts in the data set thus that character
willappear, this makes it a true "#$ compared to a pseudo random
number gen based onmathematical e%uations alone.
Tell us a bit about yourself'orn in Canberra, () years of age
and recently graduated at $riffith university #athancampus. *obbies
include rugby league, basketball and gym. &n my spare time
& like to keepup to date with technology my reading whirlpool
forums and +C user magaines, alsohanging out with friends. &
went to high school in the gold coast, my favourite sub!ect
was&+T thus it was apparent that i found myself to be studying
in this field.
&nterest: basketball, rugby league, cars, computer
gamesSpare time: & like to read whirlpool forums to see what
new computer components have beenreleased and how they perform in
benchmarks in +C user magaines. & train rugby leagueroughly (-)
times a week depending how much time & have and how tired &
am, & also gogym )- times a week again depends on how im
feeling and how much time & have, & hopeyouve all got to
know me a little better now and absolutely looking forward to
working withyou guys in this group
assessment.&ntro*obbiesinterestsSpare timeconclusion
S0" 1Teamwork2Situation / problem3 &n )rdyear regarding the
coy amplifier a ma!or problem was ateammate leaving the country
without any prior notice.0ction: 4iscussed the problem over the
phone with remaining member, little argument aboutother member !ust
wanting to leave out the marketing section, while & was in
favour of it. &nthe end we decided to finish his section and
present it the ne5t day."esult: 0ll criterias of the product was
presented, however the missing members sectioncould have been
better presented. &n the end it was a good presentation and
that assessorsand investors were impressed overall about the coy
amplifier pro!ect.
S0"1Technical problem, team dispute2Talk about the "#$ at "egan
consultancy +ty 6tdSituation / problem: Teammate disagreed on how
the "#$ should be done
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0 true "#$ was needed not a pseudo "#$0ction: Convinced that we
needed to create a character set and have human inputdetermine
where in the character set it should point to, thus getting that
character and goingthrough a bunch of e%uations. Thus using my idea
along with my teammates idea ofrunning it through mathematical
e%uation"esult: better "#$ and both me and my teammate were happy
of the outcome byincorporating both our ideas.
Short term goal: a core position within the systems engineering
team with increasedresponsibilities.6ong term goal: a leadership
position within the team and be involved in multi million
dollarpro!ects making innovative decisions within the pro!ect.7hy
are you interested in our graduate program38irst of all this is an
e5ceptional opportunity for me to further develop and enchance my
skillsthat & have gained from industry and university. 9ne
thing that & have noticed is that Suncorpis heavily in favour
of utilising agile methods into their line of work which is good
since one ofthe sub!ects that & en!oyed 1Software %uality
management2 was focused on agile methods, in
particular SS and 4S4. The systems engineering program offer 0
tailored Career4evelopment +lan, a buddy mentor program to ensure
that my learning process doesnt stopthus time usage would be
effective. 0lso suncorp provdes opportunities to deal with adiverse
range of technologies including '9SS and will help develop my C;
skills if need be.0gile methods break tasks into small increments
with minimal planning, and do not directly
involve long-term planning.SS: Systematic approach to tackling
real world problem situations and normally e5pressedin seven
steps.4S4: 4S4 is an iterative and incrementalapproach that
emphasies continuoususer/customer involvement and communication.
1Talk about say certain checklists2. 7hich &can see already
would be beneficial to my role since my role involves communicating
heavilywith business anyway for analytical and engineering duties
to support technology platforms
and maintenance along with customer incidents and system
rollouts and implementations.So & will further investigate
problems in systems and no doubt with e5perience diagnose%uick and
effective solutions.
What can you bring to the company?7hat & can offer Suncorp
is my enthusiasm that & will bring into the team everyday.
Theknowledge that & have gained from university and industry
and utilie them in a fashion thatmy teammate and myself can benefit
from and no doubt will & further enhance them. ypassion and
dedication will hopefully further motivate the team to success and
produce workat an e5cellent standard which is evident from every
team that & have been in whether it be inuni, in my
professional gaming days and sports. & would say that &
socialise %uite a lot, thus &have no doubt that & will get
along with pretty much anyone and everyone in and outside my
team.
Technologies use: !ava, C; and platforms such as 6inu5 and
wintel on suncorps mobiletechnologies and telephony &+
systems.
Suncorp background knowledgeToday Suncorp is 0ustralia???
employees with appro5imately over @ millioncustomers. The divisions
include:
personal and commercial insurance
Aero #ew Beleland
Suncorp bank / 6ife
Supported by specialist areas such as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative_and_incremental_developmenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative_and_incremental_development
