coral fulcrum
Your resume bullet points isn't a log of everything you did in the job. It should represent the 3-6 most impactful things you did that show what you are capable of.
Tbh it feels like half the items on your list sounds like junior dev level work. Fixing bugs and adding tests is something everyone does, that's par for the course.
The top few bullet points sound like they could be really great, but need flushing out
For example, the cobol decomm project. What was your contribution to the project? Did you lead the whole initiative? Lead development on a specific part? Does the fact it used to be in cobol actually contribute to the story (like did you do spikes into understanding cobol to translate the behavior)?
Did you lead any projects or parts of projects?
Also what level are you going for?
coral fulcrum
Choose an example of something you built, determine what the impact was (before and after metrics are great), and write about that
Maybe rewriting a payments API allowed you to reduce time for on call engineers to debit issues by 50%, from 1hr to 30min every outage
That's a huge win, even if you weren't leading the whole cobol - > Java project
Maybe you fixed a bug in the sql that was causing delays everytime a customer loaded up a page.
Maybe you worked with other teams to figure out a way and then implement a major database upgrade with zero downtime
Even if you are doing run of the mill, boring work, there are almost always big wins for the company/customers/etc in there. Otherwise they wouldn't be paying for you to do these things
coral fulcrum
I think you should reevaluate every bullet point. Ask yourself: "does this bullet point show a concrete example of the value I brought to the company? What about this shows that I should be hired"
I've been finding recently that AI has been pretty good as a sounding board to ask questions and get me thinking of good ways sell the work Ive done
So give that a try if you're struggling, ask it to think through different wins you've had and turn them into bullets
coral fulcrum
I'm not a recruiter or CV expert, but I think you are much closer than before! Reading it makes you sound much more like a low-mid level than the junior engineer your first one sounded like
frail ginkgo
Try adding quantifiable measures and outcomes if possible, sometimes recruiters like that because it feels more tangible
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