Course Outline

GIFT associates first undertake four months of classroom training in web application technologies, system analysis, business and professional skills. This is followed by a two and a half month technical project. The third phase of the program is five months in duration where the GIFT teams provide a development solution for a Fidelity Investments business unit using the technologies in which they have been trained. At the end of the year, graduates will be placed on project teams across Fidelity Investments in Ireland and the US.

Web Application Development Stream

Associates engaged in the Web Application Development stream of GIFT acquire knowledge and experience in the areas listed below.

• Software Development Life-Cycle – focused on design, development, testing and support of software applications
• Web application development using IBM’s WebSphere application server and HTTP server, Web Services and Open Source technologies (Linux, Struts, Spring MVC, Hibernate and iBatis ORM)
• OO Development using UML, Java/JEE and XML
• Client-Server Applications using Oracle RDBMS and PL/SQL
• Quality Assurance – Unit Testing with jUnit/TestNG/HTTPUnit and System Integration Testing
• Source Control Management – ClearCase and SubVersion
• Security – Secure Application Development

Systems Analysis Stream

Associates engaged in the Systems Analysis stream of GIFT acquire knowledge and experience in areas listed below.

• Software Development Life-Cycle – focused on business analysis and requirements gathering, project management, quality assurance and testing, support for design and development
• OO Analysis and Design using UML
• Software Development basics including Java, SQL and PL/SQL
• Business requirements elicitation and specification
• System design specification including UI design
• Quality Assurance – Test planning, test case preparation and execution using industry standard tools
• Project management for Systems Analysis
• Business knowledge acquisition and application to IT projects