Programmer / Quality Assurance Specialist Consultant at Palladium Group

Requisition ID: req12548

Project Overview and Role

• Data.FI is a five-year global project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the HIV and COVID-19 response.
• Data.FI partners with programs to accelerate and sustain access to high-quality data to expedite HIV and COVID-19 epidemic control and maintenance. By improving global, regional, national, and community/local in-depth analyses of HIV and COVID-19 epidemiologic and programmatic data, Data.FI expedites program achievements to improve client services and attain and sustain control of the epidemics.
• Data.FI supports host country governments to enhance existing health information systems (HIS), informing management responses to gaps in programming and sustaining impact by supporting local partner transition.

Purpose of Position

• Palladium is seeking to engage a skilled Programmer/Quality Assurance Specialist on a 3-month consultancy to provide technical expertise for the development and implementation of health information systems.
• (S)he will be involved in gathering accurate user requirements for information systems and work closely with stakeholders to prioritize tasks and the scope of development.
• (S)he will engage closely with system architects and regional development teams to deliver highly available and scalable services with minimal/zero downtime. (S)he will be responsible for evaluating software functions and designing test protocols to ensure that products work as intended.
• (S)he will be responsible for completing all testing procedures, suggesting performance changes, and preparing performance reports.  
• The Programmer/Quality Assurance Specialist consultant will report to the Health Informatics Lead.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining applications and solutions and participating in product design reviews, providing input on functional requirements, schedules, or potential problems in accordance with established standards and procedures.
• Monitoring and enforcing production and health information systems standards.
• Validating that health requirements and user expectations are achieved during the testing process.
• Reviewing user requirements documents to ensure that requirements are testable.
• Developing training materials and conducting trainings in quality assurance and standardization.
• Managing software development cycles, including testing and quality assurance while ensuring that deliverables meet software requirements based on agreed timeframes and milestones.
• Participating in software and architectural development activities.
• Formulating and defining system scopes and objectives through research and fact-finding to develop or modify moderately complex information systems.
• Designing, developing, and testing Java-based solutions using common standards and frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular, JPA, and Hibernate.
• Helping to improve code quality by implementing recommended best practices.
• Developing comprehensive technical documentation for application codes.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or other relevant field.
• At least 4 years' experience in software development.
• Experience with a variety of programming and frameworks, including React, Angular, Vue.
• Experience with Web Server configuration, deployment and management, using Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Glassfish.
• Excellent knowledge of Micro Service Architecture, RESTfull Web Service, JavaScript Web Socket, JAXB, JSONB, Gradle, Maven, Junit.   
• Experience with databases (MySQL, H2, PostgreSql) and their integration into web, mobile applications.
• Excellent knowledge of SQL and hands-on experience with ORM frameworks such as Hibernate/JPA.
• Working knowledge of software design: UML diagrams, database diagrams.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Ability to gather accurate requirements and work closely with stakeholders to prioritize tasks and the scope of development.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify errors and make adjustments in a testing environment.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Strong attention to detail and understanding of architectural dependencies.