NYS Office of Children & Family Services (OCFS) is seeking a Tester ExpertDay to Day task include:
- Review Welfare Management Services coding guide, become familiar with the purchase of service types for OCFS programs.
- Learn how to navigate the different screens in BICS as well as their purpose and relationship to BICS functions.
- Review and understand data relationship between the various areas of the Benefits Issuance Control System, Welfare Management System and Connections.
- Gain an understanding of BICS functions and how data is captured and stored in BICS as well as how changes impact different functions of the BICS.
- Gain an understanding of BICS Service Payments and the BICS functions impact on those payments. Including authorizations, roster generation, voucher processing, check production and composite generation.
- Gain an understanding of coding of purchase of service types including commodity codes, rates, level of difficulty, eligibility, indicators, Connections activities, retro claiming and accounts adjustments.
- Gain expertise in all BICS Inquiry functions to review data and testing results.
- Gain the ability to accurately perform all BICS processing including roster generation, voucher processing, check production, composites generation, accounts adjustment, BPR (BICS Production Requests) reports and Connections Activities data entry.
- Gain a working relationship with BICS programmers to coordinate testing, report errors found in testing, re-test after system fixes and report testing results.
- Gain the understanding and ability to perform ECL (Executive Control Language) commands in Demand to edit, compare, and email output files/report; run BPR jobs; run Retro Claiming/Retro Rate jobs; and monitor all jobs while running.
- Gain expertise in locating output text data files in the SSPS Folders and utilize Excel conversion routines to compare output data from BICS processing.
- Gain a working relationship with BICS programmers to coordinate testing, report errors found in testing, re-test after system fixes and report testing results.
- Data Test Plans
- Review test plans to gain a comprehensive understanding of the expected outcomes of each test
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of various systems changes to independently create test plans
- Implement test plans and analyze results to determine issues.
Requested Qualifications:
- 84 months experience creating test plans and test data for various scenarios
- 84 months experience utilizing demand environment Client Executive Control Language (ECL) and the demands to create test ECL for jobs, run jobs, track jobs, copy files restore files, transfer files and email files for management and finance staff.
- 84 months experience testing of the legacy payment system for many financial questions, issues, policy concerns and problems regarding Child Welfare payments and claiming reimbursement
- 84 months experience troubleshooting production system issues or problems utilizing lower environments to determine which areas of applications are affected and help to determine possible solutions
- 72 months of familiarity with COBOL language
- 72 months experience in regression testing to ensure there were no unintended errors within linked subsystems.
- Bachelor's Degree
Work hours and location:
- Full time role with engagement length of 12 months
- Daily work hours: Candidate can choose start and end time between 8am-5pm to work a 7.5 hour day.
- Physical office location: 52 Washington St. Rensselaer, NY 12144
- Telecommuting options: 5 days total in a two week time period, 3 days one week, 2 days alternating week
Spruce Technology, Inc. is a mid-size, award-winning (Inc 5000, SmartCEO, Entrepreneur of the Year) technology services firm with a steadily growing portfolio of commercial and government clients. Spruce provides innovative technology solutions, specialized IT staff, and IT strategy consulting nationwide. Spruce maintains partnerships with major technology vendors and continually develops leading-edge offerings in service areas such as digital experience, data services, application development, infrastructure, cyber security, and IT staffing.Spruce Technology, Inc. is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is the policy of Spruce Technology, Inc. to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process.All full-time employees are eligible for the following benefits:Medical, dental, vision health benefitsLife Insurance and AD&D (paid by company)401k, Flexible and Dependent Care Spending Account plans.Paid-time Off or Paid Sick Leave (amount dependent on position level and if required by state).