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This section specifies the list of technical skills expected from an A3 grade. To cover this knowledge please refer to this avaialble resources

Frontend

  • Have a good understanding of HTML:

    • Anatomy
    • Structure
    • HTML elements
    • Difference between block level elements and inline elements
    • HTML Styles
    • Semantic HTML
    • Creating Lists
    • Including Images
    • Displaying Data with Tables
    • Linking Documents
    • HTML Entities
    • HTML Uniform Resource Locators
    • HTML Forms
    • HTML media

  • Have a good understanding of CSS:

    • Selectors

    • Creating Style Rules

    • Styling Text

    • Sizing Elements

    • Color Values(HSL/RGBA/HSLA)

    • Backgrounds

    • Borders

    • Margins

    • Padding

    • Height, Width and Max-width

    • Box Model

    • Horizontal & Vertical Align

    • CSS Outline

    • CSS Layout - The position Property

    • The z-index Property

    • Flexbox

  • Have a good understanding of CSS popular Framework/library (i.e. Bootstrap, MaterialUI):

    • Grids and responsive design
    • CSS and JavaScript components
    • CSS preprocessors (i.e. scss/sass/less)
    • Flexbox

  • Have a good understanding of Javascript

    • HTML DOM manipulation using JavaScript
    • Data Types
    • Difference between const and let and their usage
    • How to use and create JavaScript Functions
    • Objects
    • Array and how to use key array Methods (e.g. map, reduce, filter)

  • Have a good understanding of Reactjs:

    • Class component life cycle (only introduction given most of the react paradigms are moving to functional components)
    • Functional component
    • React state managment - (local state i.e. useState)
    • Building content with JSX
    • Communicating with props
    • Handling user inputs with forms and events
    • Making API requests with React (i.e. fetch, axios)
    • React hooks:
      • useState
      • useEffect
      • useRef

  • Have good understanding of TDD:

    • Core concepts
    • Existing Types of Testing and the Powerful Assert Statement
    • Automated Unit Testing Basics
    • Unit Testing best practices
    • Writing Tests for TDD
    • The Red-Green-Refactor cycle in practice
    • The concept of mocking
    • Best practices of test-driven
    • How to update unit test after refactoring legacy code bases
    • Understand the concept of continue integration

Practice

  • Attends monthly Experience Engineering meetups

Self development

  • Engage with reviewer at least once a month and set up a career development plan
  • Identify relevant skills that can be improved with additional training

Leadership skills

  • Able to demonstrate problem solving skills, identify and communicate problems with the product team and process, e.g. raise a concern about inefficient standups at the retro
  • Leading by example
  • Understanding processes

Mentorship skills

  • Mentors and coaches junior colleagues
  • Effective pair programming with other developers, more junior and more senior
  • Supports onboarding of new team members to Experience Engineering team and project team

Communication skills

  • Good written and spoken communication
  • Proactive communicator
  • Able to ask for help when needed
  • Communicates with peers effectively and in a timely manner
  • Can explain work to peers and non-technical stakeholders

Team skills

  • Displays empathy towards colleagues, e.g. checks in with a colleague who may be struggling, or, give unprompted positive feedback to a colleague
  • Avoids blame
  • Has awareness of team morale

Delivery skills

  • Understands when to get support
  • Shows initiative
  • Improves accuracy for estimating size and scope of deliverables
  • Participates in code reviews

Business knowledge

  • Understands how value is delivered on a project
  • Has good Agile knowledge