Installer Engineer
Experience : 5-10 Years
Work Location : Bangalore
Must have skills :
- Hands-on experience in developing and maintaining Microsoft MSI Packages using Installshield.
- Added advantage on experience in Wix, Visual Studio Installer, Install Anywhere, NSIS etc.
- Extensive knowledge on MSI, operating system, registry and debugging tools.
- Knowledge about custom action and its relevant implementation in respective scenarios using any scripting language.
- Knowledge on windows driver as well as windows services handling from within installer.
- Experience on installation-related tasks and challenges :
- writing files and registry entries, handling environment variables, package structure to get most of MSI advantages, avoiding dll hell, localization concepts, reboot handling, UAC concepts, file permission and signing, deferred and immediate custom actions, self-registration of C++ and .Net COM servers, including merge modules and pre-requisites, chained and nested msi concepts.
- Should understand the testing domain and should help the test team to define use case driven testing.
- An idea on MSIX packaging as well as docker-container setup is an added advantage.
- Should have worked on installing and maintaining Installshield licenses in different modes.
- Ability to own and drive the tasks to completion successfully adhering to timelines.
- Experience of working with geographically dispersed teams
- Effective collaboration and influencing skills to achieve business goals across teams and organizations.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, and interpersonal and teamwork skills
- Strong triage, analytical, and problem-solving skills
Good to have skills :
Experience in Linux systems / Linux installers.Hands on experience in developing and deploying patch as well as transforms.Good knowledge of source control management system (GIT / Perforce / SVN)General knowledge and application of engineering concepts, including continuous integration methodologies.Knowhow about build and release management workflow.Working knowledge of databases (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL)Experience with software APIs and Web Services.Qualification :
MS, M Tech, BE Computer Science, Computer Engineering / Electronics Engineering5-10 years of relevant domain expertise in windows installer, preferably in a build / release context.Keywords :
InstallShield, Packaging, Build Engineer, VBScript, Installer, MSI