COBOL Programmer
Company: Crescens
Location: Salem
Posted on: May 4, 2024
Job Description:
Job Title: COBOL Programmer
Location: Salem, OR (Remote)
Duration: 7+ months
Job Description:
- Reviews, analyzes, and modifies programming systems including
encoding, testing, debugging, and installing to support an
organization's application systems.
- Consults with users to identify current operating procedures
and to clarify program objectives.
- Requires a bachelor's degree in area of specialty and at least
6 years or equivalent experience in the field or in a related
area.
- Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and
procedures.
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and
accomplish goals.
- Performs a variety of tasks.
- May lead and direct the work of Contractor staff.
- A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. The
client provides the technology systems and services that support
agency staff at local offices and facilities around the state.
These systems and services help the two agencies determine client
service program eligibility; provide medical, housing, food, and
job assistance; provide addiction, mental health, vocational, and
rehabilitative services; protect children, seniors, and people with
physical and/or developmental disabilities; process claims and
benefits; manage provider licensing and state hospital facilities;
and promote and protect the state public health.
Background:
The Provider Time Capture (PTC) Project requires experienced
Application Systems Analysis/Programmer 4 support to meet the
Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) requirements of the 21st
Century Cures Act. The Cures act was designed to improve the
quality of care provided to Consumers through furthered research,
enhanced quality control, and strengthened mental health parity.
This PTC project will implement a shared time capture solution for
the Homecare Workers (HCW) and Personal Care Attendants (PCA) of
the Aging and People with Disabilities (APD) Health Systems
Division (HSD).
The following data elements are required to be captured
electronically by Homecare Workers (HCWs) and Personal Care
Attendants (PCAs) at the time of service:
- Date of Service
- Person Providing the Service
- Person Receiving the Service
- Time the Service Begins and Ends
- Location of Service
- Type of Service Performed This project will be accomplished in
3 phases, with the team currently engaged in the second phase of
the project.
Scope:
The Key Person will be tasked to do the following:
- Actively engage in multiple discussions with system and
business experts for the Legacy Applications, complete updates to
agreed-upon Legacy Application(s), and successfully complete unit
testing of the enhanced Legacy Application(s)
- Ensure that contractor-modified systems can successfully
communicate from the Legacy Application end to the OR PTC Client
end and back.
- Ensure all Legacy Application updates, including interfaces
between the SI Contractor's OR PTC Client solution and Legacy
Applications, are documented and traceable.
- Develop database administration standards and processes,
including change control, to inform Agency's SDLC process, and
train staff in the application and use of these standards and
processes; data model-driven change implementation processes for
example.
- Provide data architecture training to development staff
regarding the following topics: data modeling, data quality, data
governance, database change management, standards development, data
auditing and data governance.
- Design, development, and unit testing that needs to be
completed for the legacy applications has been documented in the
Azure DevOps (ADOS) Backlog.
- Provide feedback and input on the Provider Time Capture Project
schedule, including identifying and recommending specific segments
of enhancement work to be completed for agreed-upon legacy
application(s) in a specific sprint.
- Provide updates to current tasks and action items, upcoming
tasks and action items, and plan work for the current and upcoming
sprints.
- Document Services completed under this task in the relevant
Monthly Package.
- Keep members of the Provider Time Capture Project apprised of
status via daily updates within the ADOS. Tasks:
Contractor's Key Person shall:
- Specific tasks completed by Contractor (including new and
modified code tasks);
- Specific tasks related to defects within ADOS that were
reported, resolved, and unresolved;
- Description of sprint activities with percentage complete;
- Description of planned sprint activities not completed;
- Description of project issues, risks or concerns that occurred
or were worked during the reporting period;
- Sprint goals planned for the next reporting period; and
- List of daily updates made on assigned tasks within ADOS for
the reporting period.
- Technical specifications to include updates and updated tasks
for ADOS inventory. The Technical Specifications must include
database changes, changes to interface programs (both batch as well
as online), and all use cases.
- Created and updated unit test plans, as needed.
- Created and updated unit test scripts.
- New and modified code for sprint activities completed and
in-progress.
- Documentation of the review of all code changes with
technical/system subject matter expert.
- Updated application code including modifications per the
accepted technical and design documents.
- Updated applications from merged code sets.
- Updated code change analysis documentation.
- Write initial Technical Specifications (version 1.0)
- Review existing Technical Specifications
- Update existing Technical Specifications
- Validate existing or Contractor-drafted Technical
Specifications to make sure they address the requirements specified
in the requirements and design documents for applicable
Application(s).
- Report at the conclusion of the WOC.
- Contractor shall deliver technical specifications documents,
which must include all the components specified in the Technical
Specifications document template. Authorized Agency may revise the
document template as needed. The report must be a compilation of
all the Technical Specifications submitted in the sprints in one
cohesive package. This report must reflect all the Application
changes made by Contractor, during the length of the WOC.
- Contractor shall complete program code changes identified in
the Sprint Planning meetings and documented in the accepted updated
Technical Specifications Contractor prepared.
- Contractor must follow standard version control, configuration
management principles, and SDD standards while making code changes.
Contractor shall provide interim documentation of code
modifications as part of the relevant Report Package.
- Write and review test plans and test scripts for applicable
application(s), including necessary changes to match the current
accepted Technical Specifications.
- Perform unit testing to ensure requirements are met and changed
code works as specified.
- Document, in ADOS, any system any issues identified in testing
and changes made to resolve the issues. Testing must be completed
successfully for the related task to be acceptable and the task
completed.
- Provide interim documentation of technical specifications as
part of the relevant Report Package for Authorized Agency review
and acceptance, and deliver cumulative, final technical
specifications at the conclusion of all Tasks for applicable Legacy
Application(s). In addition to above mentioned tasks, the key
person will:
- Unit Test Plan. Contractor shall provide a comprehensive unit
test plan that will at a minimum Client out all major activities
associated testing the code changes made by Contractor. The test
plan must include scope of the changes, testing environment and the
associated tasks completed.
- Unit Test Scripts. Contractor shall provide test scripts that
reflect the detailed instructions for successful system testing
completed by Contractor. The report must document the system
functions in accordance with Authorized Agency accepted
requirements and design after all the code changes are done.
Required skills and experience:
- COBOL (Expert level skill, 10+ years of experience
required)
- DB2 (Advanced level skill, 7-9 years of experience
required)
- CICS (Advanced level skill, 7-9 years of experience
required)
- TSO (Advanced level skill, 7-9 years of experience
required)
- JCL (Advanced level skill, 7-9 years of experience
required)
- CA Debugger (Advanced level skill, 7-9 years of experience
required)
- Strong independent work capabilities required
- Ability to communicate clearly, with the ability to engage in
multiple discussions with system and business experts regarding the
work In addition, the ideal candidate will have skills and
experience in:
- Demonstrated knowledge of relevant functional business areas of
Oregon Self-Sufficiency Program (SSP) and Oregon Aging and People
with Disabilities (APD) programs and processes, or similar
knowledge from other states.
- Previous experience in state or local Oregon government
agencies or for Human Services organizations in other states.
- Demonstrated experience with large-scale complex technical
architectures that include interfaces with other large-scale
systems.
- Demonstrated knowledge with logging of communication between
large-scale systems.
- Demonstrated knowledge in the handshake between interfacing
systems to ensure proper reception and synchronization of records;
this should specifically include experience developing and testing
web services across multiple platforms.
- Demonstrated experience working independently with minimal
supervision and direction.
- Demonstrated experience developing analysis and design
documentation necessary for the construction, testing and
implementation of identified tasks to be completed.
Keywords: Crescens, Salem , COBOL Programmer, IT / Software / Systems , Salem, Oregon
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