Adobe CQ5 Developer Hiring Guide

Known as Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Communique 5 is an online content management system developed to help businesses offer their clients a high-end interactive experience. Adobe Experience Manager allows companies to build blogs, handle content, and manage the website’s digital properties.

Adobe CQ5 will enable businesses to create websites and connect online with their consumers through a range of media, including handheld devices, web apps, tabs, desktops, and more. Adobe AEM also allows companies to boost revenue by drawing consumers’ attention.

Benefits:

• Create high-end websites for all types of devices to handle on-site and in-store interactions using various AEM web component library methodologies. It lets businesses improve their profits.
• Share all multimedia assets such as audio files, videos, photos, and more with the target audience across any marketing medium possible by uploading them on the website.
• Combine AEM with Adobe Marketing Cloud to create personalized digital assets across all engagement platforms, including online, video, social, and device, to address digital marketing needs across the unified capability of digital asset management and web content management.
• Connect with clients through Adobe Experience Virtual Communities Manager to exchange views, reflect on customer needs and represent them better.

Must-have skills

For entry-level Adobe CQ5 Developer role

• Understanding the standard Email Marketing Industry processes and CRM flows
• Simple coding/development history for any of the following languages- PHP /.Net/ Java
• Exposure to Web Services, REST, API protocols, SOAP, Bulk, and Streami
• General knowledge of UI technology such as XML, HTML, jQuery, CSS, etc.

For a Junior Adobe CQ5 Developer role (0 to 2 years)

• Created models and components;
• Built and configured CQ5 Internet Content Management System and Apache Felix Admin Console;
• Installed CRXDE Integrated Programming Environment and Subversion Version Control Project Settings.
• Creating and building websites using CQ5, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax, CSS, and JQuery.
• Developed models and reusable modules for Adobe CQ5
• Widely used CQ5 marking functionality in the creation of elements and models.
• Worked on the implementation of the Chase home page and other associated sites
• Worked on the clipped app portion that collects data from external J2ee applications, web servers
• Worked on Author instance to help build dynamic components on websites

For Senior Adobe CQ5 Developer role (3 to 6 years)

• 3+ years of experience designing and integrating Business Frameworks for Distributed Computing products and distributed applications leveraging JAVA technology.
• Should have familiarity with the creation and development of Adobe CQ 5.4 and Adobe CQ 5.5 modules. Have a good understanding of the CRX registry, CQ5 building blocks, and the use of online content management elements to configure and port websites.
• Worked as an AEM / CQ developer at Adobe Systems, drawing on proven expertise in Java and web creation and investing in a range of emerging technology and platforms, including Adobe CQ5.5, JSONP, Grails Framework, and Amazon Web Services.
• Developed custom CQ components on top of JCR and Apache Sling, CRX, and CQ5
• Comprehensive programming in web technologies such as JSP, JavaScript, XML, AJAX, JQuery, Adobe CQ5APIs, Apache Sling, OSGi packages
• Experience in the development of automated business applications using Spring Platform, Hibernate, Struts, JSF Framework and Web Services.
• Familiarity with the SDLC process (Agile, Waterfall Models) in doing detailed research, gathering use cases, recording specifications, and designing templates for Object-Oriented Programming (OOPs) Applications
• Good web page creation skills using Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, Ajax, JQuery, JavaScript.
• Decent experience with operating systems such as Windows NT/9x/2000/Me/XP/Vista and partly UNIX.
• Experience in XML compression of SAX, JDom, DOM, and dom4j technologies
• Good experience in using PERL for operating systems such as NT, LINUX, and SOLARIS boxes.
• Strong experience with JMS, MDB, and Message Driven Middle Server IBM MQ Series
• Decent exposure to research methods like Junit.
• Experience dealing with source management and versioning software like Clearcase, Perforce, and CVS.

The JOb

We are hiring an Adobe CQ5 Developer, the job description:

Adobe CQ5 Developer Responsibilities:

• Built content framework including folder structure, caching, authentication workflow, and metadata management strategies;
• Also, come with the configuration of the CUG and ACL assets for asset management.
• Creation and development of models, widget elements, CQ5 package,
• Designing, researching, staging, and developing environments
• Setting up web servers, authoring, dispatchers, writing, and setting up reverse replication agent, the replication agent
• Building up a disaster management and backup system
• Generated POC related to the design and implementation of CQ5
• Designed DAM tags and taxonomy for the website
• Worked on investors that take the news, photographs, videos, and posts from third parties
• The created concept for integration with Scene 7 for video storage
• Optimized for convergence of RESTful third-party and SOAP-based online services
• Used LDAP to authenticate
• Logged the program using log4j to make debugging and servicing simpler

Top interview questions:

Here are some of the interview questions you can ask your Adobe CQ5 Developer.

• Demonstrate Adobe CQ5
• What’s CQ5?
• What is Client Library Dependency/Dependencies?
• What is the purpose of the clientlibs?
• Difference between CQ5.4 and CQ5.5?
• What is the function of the CQ5 dispatcher?
• Demonstrate to the Multi-Site Manager?
• What’s the JCR?
• What’s the difference between a live copy and a language copy?
• What is the function of CQ5’s Persistence Manager?
• Explain the DAM Renditions?
• What are the benefits of CQ5 over other CMS programs?
• Describe the life cycle of the OSGI Bundle?