Project Manager/ Test Coordinator

JPI has an immediate opening for a Project Manager / Testing Coordinator with at least five to seven (5-7) years professional experience with emphasis on project management (preferably Agile) and test coordination. The successful candidate will have experience in maintaining project plans, updating master schedules, scheduling meetings, follow on tasks, and providing updates to stakeholders as needed; coordinate testing efforts for each sprint/release cycle including test plans and related tasks (specifically develop testing plans, regression plans, acceptance criteria, test schedules and related tasks). In this role, serve as a project manager and testing specialist for a GSA initiative, openly communicate with clients for status updates and test planning, and work directly with the development team to ensure all requirements are to specifications. Provide updates as needed to various stakeholder organizations.

At JPI, we strive to empower our people and excel for our clients. We hold ourselves to high standards and prioritize our values of being one team with unwavering integrity. We are motivated by perpetual innovation and delivering passionate service to our client.

Client Service Delivery (90%):

• Prepares detailed schedules, project estimates, and status reports.
• Maintains Project Plans on daily basis
• Updates Integrated Master Schedules on a daily basis
• Coordinates with the development team and stakeholders to properly implement all system updates and enhancements
• Gathers customers’ requirements and develops / writes project scope and objectives.
• Analyzes client needs within business processes for all applications to ensure requirements are understood and documented to present to the development team
• Coordinates and conducts meetings and is responsible for project tracking and analysis
• Reviews deliverables and ensures adherence to quality standards
• Provides recommendations and takes action to resolve any management related issues.
• Anticipates potential project/program related problems
• Uses refined techniques for identifying, eliminating or mitigating solutions, project/program and business risk
• Understands customer, industry and business trends. Applies this understanding to meet project\program objectives. As appropriate, challenges the validity of given procedures and processes with a view toward enhancement or improvement
• Conducts analysis of systems, including diagnosis and correction of faults, and proposes solutions
• Develop testing plans, regression plans, acceptance criteria, test schedules and related tasks
• Manages all development testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) efforts
• Creates and documents use cases, test cases, test plans and other supporting testing documentation
• Handles tier 2 support issues and communicates with end users to reconcile any production issues
• Conducts presentation and demos of new releases to stakeholders
• Works with stakeholders and the development team to triage production issues and coordinate the Testing efforts once issues are fixed
• Act as primary point of contact when handling customer inquiries

Business Development (5%):

• Positively represents JPI to different clients through clear articulation of JPI's value proposition;
• Develops client relationships and communication channels that provide insight into BD opportunities;
• Identifies alignment of JPI solutions to client needs

Personnel and Team Development (5%) – As Needed:

• Develops and mentors personnel to ensure career aspirations are understood
• Assists with the career development of staff
• Identifies training opportunities and appropriate certifications for staff to pursue

• At least five to seven (5-7) years’ experience in Project Management (preferably Agile) and Quality Assurance;
• Deep understanding of Agile, ITIL, SDLC, SELC and CMMI principles
• Ability to develop and manage details project plans and maintain them on daily basis
• Ability to Analyze information and situations and implements actions independently and/or through the management team to ensure project\program objectives are met.
• Experience leading Scrum meetings, define sprints, related timelines and monitor progress driving tasks to completion.
• Ability to monitor work performance and ensure product deliverables and solutions support management and decision-making and facilitate communications.
• Develop risk management plans: Identify risks, resolve problems and verify effectiveness of corrective actions.
• Experience promoting collaboration between team members.
• Ability to analyze new and complex project/program related problems and creates innovative solutions
• Experience conducting User Acceptance Testing
• Experience working with government human resources and financial applications
• Proven ability to support multiple projects simultaneously in a deadline driven process
• Must be a self-starter with the ability to work independently and in large geographically dispersed team settings to include close collaboration with internal program managers
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite and Google tools
• Bachelor’s degree
• Clearance: Holds current clearance / active HSPD-12 credentials preferred.