Application Development Senior Advisor- Hybrid
Posted Jul 14, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you had to give an effort estimate for a new project and the scope was still fuzzy. How did you get to a number you could stand behind?
What they are checking: Whether they estimate honestly with stated assumptions, since the Solution Architect and Delivery Lead plan around their numbers.
Tell me about a time a business partner wanted a call flow designed one way and you thought it would hurt the customer experience.
What they are checking: Whether they can push back with evidence while still respecting the business owner's decision.
Describe a production issue in a voice or chat application you supported. How did you find the cause?
What they are checking: Whether they can troubleshoot methodically across telephony, language understanding and back-end integrations under pressure.
What would you do
You find that a change in another team's release is about to break your call flow a week before go-live. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they protect application integrity across releases by raising cross-capability issues early and clearly.
This is a large transformation program across many lines of business. How do you build components so the next team can reuse them instead of rebuilding?
What they are checking: Whether they design for reuse and standards, which matters more than speed on an enterprise-wide program.
About the work
Walk me through a conversational IVR call flow you built. What was the caller trying to do, and how did you design the path so they didn't end up stuck or transferred for no reason?
What they are checking: Whether they think about the caller's goal and failure paths, not just wiring prompts and menus together.
How do you handle a caller who says something the natural language model doesn't recognize, twice in a row?
What they are checking: Whether they plan for no-match and no-input handling, which is where most voice experiences frustrate people.
What's your approach to unit and component testing for a voice or chat application, where the input is spoken language and not a clean form field?
What they are checking: Whether they can test conversational systems with real utterance variety instead of only the happy path.
How would you carry customer context from a chat session into a voice call so the person doesn't have to repeat themselves?
What they are checking: Whether they understand cross-channel integration and the data handoffs that make service feel personalized.
Healthcare callers often share member IDs, prescriptions and health details. How does that change the way you design and log a conversational app?
What they are checking: Whether they treat protected health information carefully in prompts, logs and recordings without being told.
What metrics would you look at after launching a new conversational IVR to decide if it's actually working?
What they are checking: Whether they measure containment, transfers and abandonment together, rather than chasing one number that can be gamed.
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