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  • ID
    #46068587
  • Salary
    TBD
  • Source
    MSys Inc.
  • Date
    2022-09-29
  • Deadline
    2022-11-27
 
Full-time

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Job summary:Title: Technical BA - Mostly remote Location: Harrisburg, PA, United States Length and terms: Long term - W2 or C2C Position created on 09/28/2022 04:01 pm Job description: Very long term project Long term usually goes for 3+ yearsWebcam interview ; mostly remote; some onsite visits may be required 37.5 hours per week provide production & operational support, release management and user support for QAs SAIS COTS and other applications. Below is the list of OQAs application the resource will support:Survey Agency Information System (SAIS) Web Applications

Survey Agency Information System (SAIS) Windows Applications

Enterprise Licensing System (ELS) Project (SAIS Replacement)

Automated Survey Processing Environment (ASPEN) Windows applications

Internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES) Web Applications

Drug, Device and Cosmetic (DD&C)

Hearing Aid Inspection (HAI)

Indoor Tanning (IDT)

This position involves working and coordinating with several teams including but not limited to HHSDC network, desktop, security, Business Relations, executive leadership, PMO, QA program and vendors. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential for this position.Generally, the contractor will perform the following tasks:Coordinate with stakeholder teams across business and technical units to provide support to all OQAs applications

Provides daily production support, conduct initial/first level triage of the tickets and issues reported by various teams. Coordinate with the OQAS technical lead in resolving the issues. Additionally, redirect the tickets as appropriate to other teams, as necessary for the QA applications.

Act as a Functional SME for all QA applications.

Act as a release manager for the QA applications. This involves, coordinates application deployments/changes working with QA program and managers. Such changes include downloading the release software from the vendor location, versioning the changes, create tasks in Azure DevOps, work with HHSDC database and web teams to complete deployment. Also notifies the appropriate manager(s) when these actions are taken.

Works with ADA to create a plan, prepare responses to the change control board questionnaire, prepare CCB addendum for each migration to test and production environments.

Work with QA technical SME to plan, coordinate and collect business requirements for the legacy QA applications that require technology refresh. Work with the program and other stakeholders to plan platform migration, create test cases, conduct acceptance testing and support production deployment.

Understand the QAs business so that the incoming tickets/requests can be prioritized and processed in the order they are received and according to the criticality/severity of the issue.

Review all deliverables submitted by the vendors, work with program and IT teams to plan testing/testing schedules, identify windows for code deployment during testing and coordinate production deployment.

Ability and proven experience in coordinating large scale technical implementations/upgrades across large teams consisting of 300 + users such as and not limited to server upgrades, server migrations, system software upgrades, custom software upgrades on both central servers and client desktops spanning across Commonwealth locations.

Maintain technical and user documentation relative to Information Technology requirements for QA applications as needed

Work with ITM and ADA to create reminders, create HH IT Communication message for emergency and planned outages.

Proactively identify issues that could impact QA’s business and address them

Identify risks, work with all stakeholders to identify mitigation strategy and address them.

Demonstrates effective communication abilities.

Basic understanding of Microsoft technology such as .NET Framework, ASP.NET, VB.NET, IIS, Oracle, SQL Server is required

Work experience required in using, managing, and organizing work items, work item assignment, updating the Epics, User Stories, Tasks and Bugs in Azure DevOps.

Gain QA’s business knowledge quickly and frequently follow updates published in CMS Govt website. Gather details relevant/that could impact QA applications, work with concerned teams and stake holders to update the applications as per the CMS updates/guidelines.

Manages expectations of the program by providing timely feedback and status updates on work assignments.

Maintains and shares operational documentation in a consistent and organized manner.

CONTRACTOR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTSThis position requires a high degree of business and technical knowledge, skill, leadership, dedication, and ability to take initiative. Ability to ramp up quickly and perform independently is essential. Familiarity and experience with the QA is considered important. Technical skills required are:5 + years of experience with foundational understating in programming languages VB.Net, C#, Visual Basic, Classic ASP, .Net Framework versions and IIS is required.

5 + years of experience with foundational understanding in Relational databases Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL is required. Hands on experience writing and executing complex SQL queries and understanding database functions, stored procedures, views, and data models is required.

Ability to triage and provided first level of technical support when trouble shooting issues.

Basic knowledge of operating systems, specifically Microsoft desktop and server OS is required.

Familiarization with software development methodologies including Agile Development, DevOps, Waterfall, and Rapid application development is required.

Conduct and coordinate manual testing, ability to understand automated test scripts and have fundamental knowledge of automated testing.

Functional skills required are:5 + years of experience in working with large group of stakeholders, timely coordination with stakeholders in troubleshoot issues and devising solutions to the problems. This includes evaluating problems, determining solutions(s), presenting benefits and drawbacks to each approach, and predicting outcomes.

Strong research skills including not limited to asking right questions, gathering relevant information from appropriate resources, developing hypothesis, and writing comprehensive reports and documents.

Strong documentation skills and experience working with system documentation, user documentation, process documentation, source code documentation is required. Additionally, ability to review documentation provided by the vendor including but not limited to Change Request Forms, Release schedule and timelines, test plans and other deliverables is required.

Strong communication skills, and act as liaison between technical and non technical teams with proven experience communicating complex and technical concepts in ways that are easy to understand for non technical teams members is required.

TIMEFRAMESThe agreement between the Department of Health and the contractor is from 10/1/2022 to 6/30/2023 and will be extended as appropriate.Required Skills:Experience in working with large group of stakeholders, timely coordination with stakeholders in troubleshoot issues and devising solutions 5 Years

Strong research skills including not limited to gathering information from appropriate resources, developing hypothesis, and writing reports

Foundational understanding of VB.Net, C#, Visual Basic, Classic ASP, .Net Framework versions and IIS 5 Years

Foundational understanding in relational databases Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL 5 Years

Experience writing and executing complex SQL queries and understanding database functions, stored procedures, views, and data models 5 Years

Ability to triage and provided first level of technical support when trouble shooting issues

Basic knowledge of operating systems, specifically Microsoft desktop and server OS

Familiarization with software development methodologies including Agile Development, DevOps, Waterfall, and Rapid application development

Conduct and coordinate manual testing, ability to understand automated test scripts and have fundamental knowledge of automated testing

Strong documentation skills

Strong communication skills

Contact the recruiter working on this position:

The recruiter working on this position is Gowtham Reddy(Shaji Team)His/her contact number is +(1) (205) 5983015 His/her contact email is gowtham.reddy@msysinc.com Our recruiters will be more than happy to help you to get this contract.

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