Writes, tests and maintains computer programs to meet the application needs of end-users of computer systems.

Tasks Include:

• Assists systems designers in researching and documenting computer users’ requirements
  
  
• participates in writing specifications for computer systems and producing the components of computer programs.
  
  
• analyses objectives and problems specified by systems designers

• translates the formalised solutions
  provided by systems designers into detailed program specifications
  
  
• prepares detailed logical designs to establish the order in which data is processed, points at which decisions must be made and the sequence of operations
  
  
• writes programs as lists of instructions in computer languages or machine code, working from formalised representations of solutions
  
  
• tests the validity and logic of programs and makes amendments
  
  
• prepares reports, manuals and documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of system software for use by computer equipment suppliers, systems designers, programmers and computer operators
  
• may analyse, review and rewrite programs and component modules of programs