Responsibilities

• Overall planning and management of Service Transition delivery including Continual Service Improvement
• Managing and coordinating the Service Transition functions
• Budgeting and accounting for Service Transition team activities and resources
• Acting as the prime interface for senior management in terms of Service Transition planning and reporting
• Making a final recommendation to the business and IT regarding the decisions to release and deploy into production
• Ensuring all organizational policies and procedures are followed throughout transition
• Ensuring the final delivery meets the agreed customer and stakeholder requirements specified in the Service Design.
• Communicates Service Transition activities and strategies to IT management and staff community
• Defining the requirements, processes and tools for Transition Planning and Support
• Maintaining and integrating lower level plans to establish overall integrated transition plans, including planned vs actuals
• Maintaining and monitoring progress on Service Transition changes, issues, risks and deviations including tracking progress on actions and mitigation of risks
• Maintaining records on and providing management information on resource use, project/Service Transition progress, budgeted and actual spend
• Managing and coordinating requests for resources
• Coordinating Service Transition activities across projects, suppliers and service teams where appropriate
• Publishing Service Transition performance statistics and identifying key areas for improvement
• Undertaking formal quality reviews of the Service Transition, release and deployment plans and agreed transition activities in accordance with the quality management plan
• Works directly with ITSM Program Owner and Manager, but will collaborate across IT domains and other IT service management processes to ensure Service Transition processes are well integrated

Education and Training

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, management information systems (or related field), or equivalent experience
• IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification required (Foundation-level v2 or v3, and Intermediate-level, including Service Transition, and Release, Control & Validation); in addition, Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (CobiT) and project management certification desirable

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrated management leadership experience
• Proven ability to build and manage complex relationships in a matrixed environment
• Strong organizational skills; ability to lead different process teams with competing demands for resources
• Strong analytical, multitasking and prioritization skills
• Proficiency in working in a fast-paced, complex, dynamic and multicultural business environment
• Proven ability to build relationships and influence individuals at all levels of the organization

Key Behaviors and Competencies

• Ability to understand strategic business objectives and the ability for different Service Transition processes to align and support those objectives

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

Responsibilities

• Strong data management, data warehousing, Business Intelligence, decision support systems
• Engaging directly with the business to understand their reporting & business reqs
• Formulating a strategy to support the needs of the business
• Creating a solutions/high level systems design in support of those business reqs
• Engaging with and directing both internal as well as external resources needed to successfully deliver the solution to the business community
• Ability to operate within a “Managed Services” organization whereby off shore resources are leveraged & managed to deliver a solution
• Have experience in an Insurance, Banking, Financial Services or Trading env.
• Strong technical knowledge & experience with Oracle, PL/SQL, UIX, DW, etc.
• J2EE development env with websphere being an advantage
• Ability to influence & communicate at the C-Level
• Strong change management experience

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Expert technical knowledge of the system development life cycle, and system and application program development technological alternatives.
• Senior level knowledge of client area’s functions and systems.
• Must be competent to work at the highest technical level of all phases of application program/system design and implementation and have excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent project management skills and ability to organize and plan effectively to meet both short and long range project goals.
• Solid knowledge of interface design and user centered design method.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with peers, IT management and staff, and internal business partners/clients.
• Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office suite and other business related software systems or languages including, but not limited to Oracle, Informatica, Crystal Reports, Hyperion, Maximus, BO, BI, Hyperion, Unix and PL/SQL. Experience with Investment and/or Financial applications necessary.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor?s Degree with Master?s preferred in Computer Science, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• Typically a minimum of nine years of solid, diverse work experience in IT with a minimum of six years experience in application program development.
• Applicable certifications preferred.

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

Individual contributor ensuring the release of high quality software and systems through the management of quality assurance (QA) testing projects. Provides technical consultative assistance to management and technology process owners with respect to the development and implementation of quality IT systems and software, provides guidance to others informally, and formally leads project teams on a short-term basis.

 These candidates will be responsible for:

• Engage with the users to understand their requirements
• Define the high level test strategy to support those reqs
• Create the test plan, test beds, test cases, etc
• Engage with vendors to ensure execution of strategy and plan
• Review the vendors deliverable to ensure they are meeting the requirements

 Responsibilities

• Leads quality assurance projects and teams, and consults with IT management, staff and internal clients throughout the QA project life cycle utilizing advanced problem-solving assistance tools.
• Provides technical consultative assistance to management and client areas to ensure the development and implementation of quality IT systems and software, and works with IT management, staff and internal clients throughout the project life cycle.
• Analyzes, develops and implements new or modified quality assurance procedures and processes, test plans, test scripts, and applications/systems for assessing the quality of delivered application software and systems across multiple computing environments.
• Develops metrics for assessing the quality of delivered application software or systems and analyzes trends, researches anomalies and summarizes findings for business process owners.
• Analyzes metrics and data from applicable systems to identify the most complex quality assurance issues.
• Recommends process improvements and works with process owners to determine and manage implementation strategy and roll-out when process improvements are required.
• Participates in the identification and implementation planning of new QA software.
• Stays up to date on trends and developments within functional area of expertise and the insurance industry.
• May focus on software testing ensuring successful testing of releases and programs.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Full technical knowledge of automated testing and modeling tools, change management and test case generation techniques as well as business processes and ability to apply continuous process improvement and quality assurance methodologies effectively.
• Proven knowledge of client area’s functions and systems.
• Advanced knowledge of software and hardware systems and a solid understanding of the potential use of technology solutions in a business environment.
• Strong analytical skills and detail orientation.
• Senior level knowledge of the project management life cycle and project management tools.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with internal and external business partners.
• Ability to lead teams on short-term projects.
• Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite and other business related software systems along with the ability to learn new systems applications quickly.

Education & Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• Typically a minimum of seven years experience in systems analysis, programming and quality assurance project management including prior software testing experience.
• Applicable professional certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develops, publishes, and implements test plans.
• Writes and maintains test automation.
• Develops quality assurance standards.
• Defines and tracks quality assurance metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts.
• Requires a bachelor’s degree and at least 3 years of experience testing in C, C++, Java.
• Must have a working knowledge of quality assurance methodologies.
• Familiar with NT, UNIX and/or Solaris environments.
• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• May lead and direct the work of others.
• Works under general supervision; typically reports to a manager.
• A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required.
• Skills used on the project include: Java, SQL, Python, Red Hat Linux, DBMS, and Oracle SQL.

 Qualifications

• Testing skills including test approach and test case preparation, execution, result analysis, recommendations and reporting
• Advanced level of SQL required. Ability to load data, extract data, write complex SQL queries and manipulate data required
• Experience automating scripts and creating automated testing frameworks required (PL/SQL and Python preferred, but Perl is helpful also)
• Ability to read and understand Java code and XML
• Minimum of 2 years of Unix scripting languages experience
• Minimum of 2 years experience working in an Agile environment preferred
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and multi-tasking ability.
• ARC GIS and 3D experience desired.
• Intermediate knowledge Robot framework desired

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

These candidates will be engaged in the testing of networking, data transfer, etc type apps verses traditional business apps. Due to this, the candidate MUST HAVE IP Networking and Linux scripting and troubleshooting with a minimum of 5 years of testing experience.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with development and test engineers to understand product features.
• Design, develop and execute test cases that validate product features.
• Produce documentation for test strategy and test cases. Report status and gather related metrics.
• Learn new technologies and procedures to remain current with industry standards and new products.
• Passion for delivering high quality software
• Partner with other cross functional teams (Development, QA-IT, and Operation) to coordinate daily test activities to ensure test commitments are met.
• Develop test strategies/methodologies, cases, and procedures based upon approved requirements and designs.
• Create, implement, maintain and ensure compliance to test policies, methodologies, standards and best practices.
• Design, develop, and execute manual and automated test cases using test plans and functional specifications.
• Plan, schedule, and conduct all phases of testing – Integration/System Testing, Performance Testing, Regression Testing, Acceptance Testing, Verification and Validation, etc.
• Perform both new functionality and regression tests and identifies, analyze and report issues using “Test Director” defect tracking tool.
• Identify and coordinate the creation and maintenance of relevant test environments and infrastructure.
• Create new test strategies for Automation Test, Test Tools and Performance Test.
• Document findings and recommendations.
• Manage a continuous process improvement program within the team.
• Reproduce and verify defects in lab as well as in the field.
• Troubleshoot issues by evaluating log files, SM reports, MySQL data base and data packet capture.

Requirements:

• Solid knowledge of software development lifecycles, test methodologies, test case identification/development, and test execution.
• Candidate must have at least four years of software testing experience, with strong background in end to end system level testing.
• Minimum of two years of direct experience with IP networking and Linux operating system, including script writing.
• Direct experience validating system software; developing test cases, executing test cases, both manual and automated.
• Excellent investigation, troubleshooting and analytical skills to be able to isolate the software issues.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to work on multiple projects with date-driven schedules.
• Ability to work independently and manage priorities .
• Some background in Java will be a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Detail-oriented with attention to product quality.
• Experience with various mobile devices/internet browsers.

 Qualifications:

• Must possess a 4 year college degree, CCNA preferred.
• Experience with Linux, Perl, Python, Java, Wire shark, and MySQL. -Experience with scripting using Python, Perl, and “vi”.

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

Key areas of responsibility include strategic thinking, proven innovation, market and product requirements gathering and definition, working hand-in-hand with internal and external clients, design and technology teams, and guiding projects through the product development lifecycle. The role requires someone who is comfortable operating at a fast pace, is detail oriented, drives for results and takes pride in offering quality customer experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Turn customers into fans through highly innovative, quality driven product strategies, roadmaps and feature sets
• Drive products and customer experience from concept to launch, working with cross-functional teams of Business Executives, Managers, Designers and Engineers
• Perform market definition, business planning, product profitability analysis
• Maintain digital space thought leadership by continually monitoring and detecting market changes and opportunities
• Capture, monitor and present hard data (KPIs) to back up assumptions and feature concepts
• Responsible for check-pointing deliverables ensuring deliverables match market opportunity
• People person who enjoys the role of customer evangelist

• 5+ years Internet Product Management experience in consumer eCommerce
• People person who takes pride in the quality of their work
• Significant experience with key product management functions: market research and competitive analysis, requirements definition, concept validation using mocks/wireframes and testing, product roadmap and working within organizations to effect positive change
• Track record of successfully shaping and implementing business strategy for technical products or services
• History of productizing software solutions leading to repeatable and optimized revenue streams
• Experience establishing clear project parameters supporting and enabling project team success
• Proven hands on experience using ecommerce best practices and iterative product development
• Confident and entrepreneurial with excellent communication skills up and down the organization
• Attention to detail and fundamental understanding of how change ripples throughout products and functional areas
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Cross business discipline understanding and experience

Responsibilities:

• Analyze customer needs and business requirements — assessing data from multiple sources including product requirements, tech constraints, UX research, Web analytics, etc. — in order to develop and validate product design alternatives.
• Work closely with Product Managers, Engineering, Product Marketing and customers to create wireframes, task flows, storyboards and prototypes that serve as the blueprint for Product Development efforts.
• Conduct/coordinate usability testing
• Lead the development of best practices and standards regarding user interface and interaction design, usability, and information architecture.

Experience Required:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interactive Design, Cognitive Psychology or related discipline. Master’s degree preferred.
• 7+ years experience in one or more of the following: Human Factors Engineering, Interaction Design, Information Architecture (IA) or Usability Engineering in the development of large-scale dynamic websites
• Expert level knowledge of user interface & information design principles, and Interaction Design & Usability testing methodologies
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Visio, Dreamweaver, Axure RP, Balsamiq Mockups, Protoshare, etc.
• Experience facilitating usability tests and focus groups.
• Working knowledge of web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal; ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team environment.
• Specialized Knowledge & Skills:
• Usability: Utilizes key design principles and industry standards to ensure clear navigation, GUI, content design and ease of use for target audience.
• Capable of interpreting and distilling business goals and objectives
• Must have the ability to communicate effectively to multiple stakeholder groups including engineering, marketing, operations, and Senior Management.
• Model and render documented UI functional specifications from wire-frame, testing, business presentations, as well as clear communication of functionality to development teams.
• Must be familiar with, and able to discuss, the latest trends in interactive development practices, trends and emerging technologies.
• Experience with high trafficked consumer focused e-commerce websites preferred.

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

• Build a relationship with the Program leadership team
• Gain a thorough understanding of the business domain, pain points, and direction
• Provide architectural guidance and be the technical advisor to the Program
• Influence project prioritization, sequencing, initiation, and roadmaps
• Identify potential re-useable, overlapping, or conflicting  business functionality
• Work to maximize reuse drive consistency, and holistic approaches
• Coach, mentor, and review the work of the project focused architects
• Act as the architect on key projects or as capacity / priority necessitates

The successful candidate will meet the following requirements:

• 12+ years experience designing, building and deploying enterprise solutions with exposure to multiple software packages/vendors, programming languages and technology platforms
• Experience architecting and/or developing solutions enabling the utilization of the ARIS Platform, Rational Method Composer, Rational SDLC-related products and the HP Project and Portfolio Management suite is desired
• Requires strong focus on successful delivery of COTS implementations
• Extensive experience with the .NET framework and SharePoint
• Extensive experience designing and/or developing solutions in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and associated Web Service Specifications WS-*
• Proficiency with J2EE technologies a plus
• Extensive experience with systems architectural concepts and patterns, UML, refactoring
• Demonstrated ability to stay current with Application Architecture best practices, existing and emerging technology platforms, architectural and systems engineering industry trends
• Experience with a variety of software platforms including MS SharePoint, IBM WebSphere, content management systems, search engines, rules engines, BPM, ETL, etc
• Experience with formal software development methodologies, with a focus on Rational Unified Process and Agile
• Proficiency with the Rational ALM suite is a plus
• Strong understanding of infrastructure and security architecture concepts
• Experience with data and application integration issues, solutions and tools
• Demonstrated ability to prepare and deliver presentations to executives on architectural approaches to gain consensus, including an ability to translate complex technical topics to audiences with a range of technical sophistication
• Very advanced interpersonal and communication skills is essential
• Flexibility, energy and ability to work well with others in a virtual, geographically dispersed team environment
• Bachelor’s Degree in technical field

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

Required Skills

• 5 or more years experience as a software developer.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer-related area preferred.
• Experience coding/programming/ developing with working knowledge of .Net, MOSS, and SQL development.
• Applied knowledge of object oriented programming techniques, methods and structures.
• Applied knowledge of data access and update techniques, methods and structures.
• Applied knowledge of multi-tier internet application architectures using Microsoft technologies
• Ability to work independently or as part of a larger team
• Ability to rapidly learn and apply new, emerging application development and integration technologies and techniques.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in both verbal and written formats.
• Ability to create and maintain positive, productive working relationships with both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Ability to meet project-related commitments on time and with the highest standards of quality.

Required Experience

• Sharepoint(MOSS) developers with SQL Server, ASP.NET and C# experience. Exposure to Biztalk 2009 a plus.
• Create technical specifications based on functional specifications.
• Write code to meet technical specifications.
• Test code and make appropriate modifications.
• Complete appropriate documentation in compliance with all procedures and standards.
• Recommend improvements/modifications to designs.
• Advise Business Analysts and non-technical people on issues as appropriate
• Report progress to managers, project leads, customers and other required parties as appropriate.
• Contributes to and manages small to medium projects.
• Provides guidance and direction to lower-level developers.
• Possesses and applies a broad knowledge of the concepts, principles, practices and processes of software development. Significant expertise needed to complete complex assignments. Ability to visualize, articulate, and solve complex problems and concepts.
• Assignments are broad in nature and require ingenuity and originality.
• Solves complex problems often taking a new perspective using existing solutions.
• Works under general direction with latitude to proceed on some actions or decisions.

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

The candidate will be involved in the development of distributed solutions for our largest revenue generating group. These solutions include both a web-based user interface as well as nightly and intraday batch processing components. These applications are internal as well as external facing and enable our client base to search, view and edit transactions and execute ad-hoc reports. The candidate will be involved in enhancing existing applications as well as participating in new development. It is required that this candidate have an exceptional grasp of object oriented concepts, web technologies, be proficient in altering Oracle tables, writing optimized SQL and have experience with frameworks such as Spring.

Candidate needs to be self-motivated and be able to plan and execute based on imposed deadlines. The candidate is expected to participate in system analysis, design, implementation, documentation, and testing in support of the group’s goals and initiatives. The candidate must have exceptional interpersonal communications skills, be able to provide technical guidance and encourage/support a collaborative approach to development. They will also be required, to take ownership of, responsibility for and provide support on assigned applications.

Qualifications:

• Java development experience in OO and distributed environments.
• Development experience with web technologies (e.g. Struts, Spring MVC, JSP, HTML, AJAX, JavaScript, SiteMesh)
• Experience with SQL and Relational databases (e.g. Oracle). This includes having in depth experience of complex multi-table structures. Must be able to performance tune queries to run efficiently.
• Linux/Unix.
• Database design and DDL manipulation (Oracle).
• Frameworks such as Spring, Spring MVC and Struts.
• Tomcat or other Java Application Servers.
• Eclipse, Maven, Bamboo, Git, ClearCase, a plus.
• Java Batch (Spring Batch), DMExpress and UC4 processing, a plus.
• Knowledge of open source libraries such as Log4j, JUnit, Ant, UC4 and Apache Commons, a plus.
• Ability to learn existing applications quickly and to be able to make modifications to them.
• Ability to work independently.

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: www.htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/