Software development manager vs contract software engineer

Differences between software development manager and contract software engineer duties and responsibilities

Software development manager example responsibilities.

• Plan and manage release schedules, upgrades and patches, maintenance windows.
• Justify, evaluate, hire, and manage offshore contractors to supplement staff for a large HTML form coding project.
• Manage workflow of projects through JIRA, ensuring that all necessary reviews are perform and projects are successfully release to production.
• Manage all phases of application design--from requirements gathering, coding and prototyping through system testing, integration and deployment.
• Manage many infrastructure upgrade projects nationwide.
• Manage resource allocation for Lawson ERP implementation project.
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Contract software engineer example responsibilities.

• Implement a centralize configuration system for managing application settings, consisting of a desktop application with a WCF backend.
• Develop API to allow diagnostic modules to be invoke from different languages and browsers.
• Complete rewrite of network interfaces (TCP/IP/UDP) and API's to kernel level functions.
• Work on development of XML reports from older technology for distribution to branches and managers.
• Develop various reports in PDF format using various XML technologies to reflect contact and quote data.
• Integrate outsourced UI into existing application.
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