Tips To Choose The Right Magento Developer For Your Business

By Author: Johan Smith
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Magento is the most favoured and liked the eCommerce platform. If you are running an eCommerce project and you want to get your webshop built with a competitive and interactive edge then here is the article for you with the right tips to find and hire Magento experts out of millions, with ease. 
 
But before starting your search, you need to ask yourself a few things and clear yourself clearly with those like:

What you need the developer for, full-time basis or just for the project development time?
What are your project requirements? 
Do you need a back-end or front-end developer or both?
How much can you pay?

 
With these things clear in your mind, you can easily proceed with your search for the right Magento developer and here are the tips for it. 
 
Ask about a few Magento tasks to the developer:
Magento development includes ...
... a few mandatory tasks and the developer must be aware of it. So, begin with asking about these. 

Installation and properly setting up the latest version of the platform. 
Taking care of responsiveness and speed
Customising extensions and themes to enhance the project’s features and functionalities
The developer should know the right way to integrate multiple payment gateways and account management
Optimising website performance
Performing audits
Making sure that the website supports multiple languages and currencies
A/B testing to ensure the excellent customer experience

 
Other technical skills you need to ask about are listed here. 
 
Apart from the first few points, the developer you are planning to work with must possess technical skills like PHP, Python, MySQL, XML, MVC structure, Zend cache, HTML, CSS, Java, Bootstrap, and a few more. 
 
Look for the other skills and requirements for Magento development:
Apart from the ones shared above, there are several other things that you need to look out for when choosing an ideal Magento developer. 
 
The developer must have industry knowledge: 
Look for professionals who have some years of experience in the Magento development field. The professional must be familiar with the latest version, features, and trends of the platform. To verify the skills, you can ask things like the major differences between Magento 1 and 2. 
 
Apart from this, you can also take a look at the portfolio to check the quality of work he or she has delivered before and the testimonials to see what the past clients have said about the work. 
 
Check the creative and innovative skills:
The ability to come up with something innovative and fresh following the Magento rules is a skill that you must look for in the developer. Moreover, the professional must have the hunger of exploring new ways of using the platform and its features. After all, at the end of the day, the developer will have to create a webshop that will make its customers come back to it repeatedly after the first visit. 
 
Responsibility, pressure handling and time management ability:
The e-store won’t perform efficiently if the tasks are not completed on time and in the right way. It often happens that developers complete the work on time but without maintaining the quality. You need to check on this and be sure that you are handing over your project to someone who knows how to manage and schedule time, complete the work with perfection, and handle pressure confidently and calmly. If possible what you can do is give a small development task to the professional and ask him or her to get it done within a stipulated time period. If you get a positive result, you are good to go with the developer. 
 
Apart from these, checking out for the certification of the developer and the reputation of the company he or she is associated with is also essential to find out the best Magento professional for your project. 
 
Johan Smith is an experienced Magento developer of a leading eCommerce development company in Australia, GetAProgrammer. The author has written this article to help businesses easily find and hire Magento experts for their projects.