Senior Project Manager

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We are currently seeking a Senior Project Manager to join our team in Albany, New York (US-NY), United States (US).

Title:

QA Senior Project Manager Overview of job:

The QA Senior Project Manager has overall responsibility for the quality assurance function overseeing the client’s contractors with oversight of the Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) project over the life of the contract. The Project Manager plans, schedules and controls all QA team activities related to the project in collaboration with the client’s MMIS project management office. The Project Manager ensures that appropriate resources are available to accomplish the tasks, deliverables and other activities associated with the MMIS.Job

Responsibilities Include:

Ensuring quality is built into large projects or programs or significant segments of a large complex project or program.

Working with the client and PMO team members to ensure business requirements are fully documented in the business requirements documents (BRD) or similar documents and meet quality standards.

Assessing the quality of contractor submitted project deliverables such as Project Schedules, Status Reports, and Risks, Actions, Issues, and Decision (RAID) logs.

Leading a QA team in providing quality assurance throughout the SDLC, including QA for initiating, planning, controlling, executing, and closing tasks of a project or program to produce the solution deliverable. Applying SDLC methodologies and frameworks which may include Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid, Dev Ops, Dev Sec Ops  in a Cloud or On-Prem environment.

Anticipating potential quality-related problems and manages risks, issues, escalations, and communication(s).As appropriate, challenging the validity of given procedures and processes with a view toward continuous improvement.

Performing reviews for accuracy of various contract deliverables from contractors, such as submitted invoices, SLAs, replacement staff resumes, etc.

Managing the QA team assignments and schedules to ensure timely review of submitted artifacts.

Facilitating information sharing among the entire QA project team to identify risks issues, and opportunities associated with system interoperability.

Accurately reporting status to the client using QA standard operating procedures and templates.

Evaluating contractor-reported burn-rates and budget actuals against planned.

Required Qualifications:

Eight (8) years or more of progressive experience with Project Management related tasks, including Initiation, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling tasks and preparing and using all PM management plans, as described by Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).Five (5) years of experience applying PMI Project Management practices managing Quality Assurance projects, activities, and tasks.

Five (5) years of experience working with team size of 10 (ten) or more staff.

Three (3) years of experience with MS Project, including baselines, tracking progress, resource usage and reporting progress against planned schedule.

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Business Administration, or another similar field.

Preferred

Skills:

Current PMI certification, which may include Professional Project Manager (PMP), Certified Associate Project Management (CAPM), Program Management Professional (PgMP), Portfolio Management Profession (PfMP), Risk Management Professional (RMP), Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP), Professional in Business Analysis (PBA), PMO Certified Practitioner (PMO-CP) or PMO Certified Consultant…