Independent Verification And Validation; IV&V Consultant

Independent Verification And Validation (IV&V) Consultant

Pro Sidian is looking for a talented professional to deliver real value to clients in a fast-paced, challenging environment. Pro Sidian Consulting is a management and operations consulting firm with a reputation for its strong national practice spanning six solution areas including Risk Management, Energy & Sustainability, Compliance, Business Process, IT Effectiveness, and Talent Management.

We help clients improve their operations by linking strategy to execution, maximizing company return on investment capital through design and execution of operations core to delivering value to customers.

Pro Sidian Seeks a Independent Verification And Validation (IV&V) Consultant in CONUS/OCONUS - Olympia, WA to support an engagement for an Agency dedicated to the safety, health and security of 2.5 million workers.

The key functions of this role include protecting the health and safety of workers, ensuring medical care and financial help for injured workers, protecting workers' wages, hours, breaks and more, and protecting the public from unsafe work and economic hardship.

The Pro Sidian Team works to provide expert level Information Technology (IT) Quality Assurance (QA) consulting services supporting a full cross-agency “business transformation” initiatives intended to achieve the mission of keeping citizens in the state safe and working.

The business transformation calls for modernizing the agency's extensive technology infrastructure and corresponding business processes over several years.

The client is starting with people and processes – ensuring the best way to do business and collectively understand business priorities and customers’ expectations. Then, they will invest in new technology to support those process improvements and achieve stated goals and objectives.

As an Independent Verification And Validation (IV&V) Consultant, you will lead/oversee the Verification and Validation activities in alignment with the Client Organizations requirements, policies, guidelines including but not limited to the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) Policy 132.

You will be responsible for reviewing, monitoring, and observing product development/implementation/customizations, project activities Statement Of Work completion, or service-level agreement (SLA), and supporting the written assessment reports developed by the team.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Communicate and collaborate effectively with project staff and customers to solve complex issues.
• Develop and deliver anomaly reports reviewing specific processes, work products, deliverables, or other project attributes offering an assessment of their soundness, appropriateness, and ability to contribute to project success.
• Develop and deliver comprehensive periodic assessment reports containing results of oversight tasks and recommendations for improvement.
• Assess the quality and compliance with industry accepted practices of the project’s processes, work products, and deliverables.
• Track the response to recommendations made in the reports to ensure the system integrator and/or the client are addressing the risks in order to ensure successful outcomes.

Requirements for this role include:

• A minimum of five (5) years providing IV&V services for a large scale (multi-million dollar) state or government agency IT projects.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver client business value as an IV&V Consultant by presenting findings and issues to technical and business stakeholders in a professional manner based on the facts through a data driven approach and without bias.
• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Self-Driven - actively looks for ways to contribute including testing code for large scale/availability / resiliency.
• At least five (5) years’ experience in two or more of the following specializations:
  Business requirements and business flow development and facilitation, System / IT infrastructure security, Legacy system languages, Current system languages, System/User test management and execution, System architecture design, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Database design and development.

Benefits for this role include:

• Competitive Compensation.
• Group Medical Health Insurance Benefits.
• Group Dental Health Insurance Benefits.
• Group Vision Health Insurance Benefits.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan.
• Vacation and Paid Time-Off (PTO) Benefits.
• Pre-Tax Payment Programs.
• Purchasing Discounts & Savings Plans.
• Security Clearance.
• Pro Sidian Employee & Contractor Referral Bonus Program.
• Performance Incentives.
• Flexible Spending Account.
• Supplemental Life/Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance.
• Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance.