Senior Quality Assurance Project Manager

NTT DATA Services•City of Albany, NY

3d•$75,062 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Project Manager has overall responsibility for the quality assurance function overseeing the client’s contractor with oversight of the Medicaid Enterprise Systems (MES) project over the life of the contract. Tasks also include managing plans, schedules and control of all QA team activities in collaboration with the client project management office. The Senior Project Manager ensures that appropriate resources are available to accomplish the tasks, deliverables and other activities associated with the project.

Requirements

Minimum 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)
Minimum five (5) years of experience applying PMI project management practices managing quality assurance projects, activities, and tasks
Minimum five (5) years of experience working with team size of 10 or more staff
Minimum three (3) years of experience with MS Project, including baselining, tracking progress, resource usage and reporting progress against planned schedule
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Business Administration, or similar field
Willing to be on the client site in Albany New York 50% of the time.

Nice To Haves

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 (PMO-CC).
Two (2) years of experience with project management on a Healthcare Systems Project or Program

Responsibilities

Ensuring quality is built into large projects or programs or significant segments of a large complex project or program
Working with the client and 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, DevOps, DevSecOps 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 to 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