Update 4/18: Bid limit increased to 3. EDU is seeking additional candidates as the leading candidate is not available for the assignment. Deadline to submit additional candidates is Thursday, 4/21 at 10:30amEST.
PM 2 Program Manager 2
Reposted from 38103 (candidate backed out of offer)
Interviews will be in person
This position will represent the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) working closely with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) in support of the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Grant, specifically in the development of the Ohio Child Licensing and Quality System (OCLQS). The person will help coordinate the work between the agencies and provide analysis and user acceptance testing support as needed. The successful candidate will have strong Business Analyst skills and testing skills along with experience leading testing efforts. They will be acting as the ODE testing lead and working alongside JFS staff in developing use cases, testing scenarios/scripts and performing UAT. They will also develop user documentation and training as deemed appropriate, including on-line training where applicable.
Interviews are in person only.
Assignment will go thru June 2016 with possible extension to December 2016.
The selected candidate is required to have the following:
Years of Relevant Experience:
• Minimum of 10 years IT experience
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working with end users to document current business processes
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in data gathering and facilitation techniques (i.e. meetings and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions)
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience developing use cases and/or user stories
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working with database and/or data warehouse concepts
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working with logical and physical data models
• Minimum of 1 year experience with PL-SQL, SQL scripting, stored procedures and database triggers, MS Excel, and/or similar tools for data extraction, manipulation or analysis
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience performing integration and customer acceptance testing
• Minimum of 1 year experience in the lead testing role (evaluating, testing system and data issues, creating test plans, test cases, leading customer acceptance testing).
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience developing end user guides
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience developing and presenting training material
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience using Microsoft Visio
Preferred Education:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Business, or appropriate field of study
Preferred skills and experiences:
• Thorough working knowledge of the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), IT systems and processes, methodologies and their direct implementation to projects
• Strong business and systems analysis skills and experience with numerous environments and architectures
• Ability to understand, translate, and document all business and user requirements
• Strong experiences in Software Quality Assurance processes
• Excellent testing skills, with knowledge of test planning, processes and execution
• Goal-oriented proactive team player with the demonstrated ability to multi-task and prioritize in a fast-paced professional environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; able to garner support from a wide variety of stakeholders
• Critical thinker with excellent problem solving skills that can make independent decisions within area of responsibility and expertise
• Works well in and supports a distributed team environment and is adaptive to changes in methodologies and technologies
• Experience working with 3rd party vendors
• Experience with set-up and moderation of web conferences
• Experience with Microsoft Team Foundation Server
• Minimum of 1 year experience using Microsoft SharePoint
Helpful for the resource to have previous state experience
Excellent communication skills a must
Experience working across multiple agencies
Contractor will spend part of time at ODE and part of time and job and family services
