Independent Verification And Validation (IV&V) Consultant [4001A595]

ProSidian Seeks a Independent Verification And Validation (IV&V) Consultant in CONUS/OCONUS - Olympia, WA to support an engagement for an Agency dedicated to the safety, health and security of 2.5 million workers.  Key functions include:  Protecting the health and safety of workers | Ensuring medical care and financial help for injured workers | Protecting workers' wages, hours, breaks and more | Protecting the public from unsafe work and economic hardship

The ProSidian Team works to provide expert level Information Technology (IT) Quality Assurance (QA) consulting services supporting a full cross-agency “business transformation” initiatives intended to achieve the mission of keeping citizens in the state safe and working. The business transformation (BT) calls for modernizing the agency's extensive technology infrastructure and corresponding business processes over several years. The client is starting with people and processes – ensuring the best way to do business and collectively understand business priorities and customers’ expectations. Then, they will invest in new technology to support those process improvements and achieve stated goals and objectives.

Navigating the agency's technology maze is challenging for its employees. It complicates the training process and makes it difficult for them to deliver high-quality, effective service to their customers. Many applications are independent and don’t communicate information between each other. Over the next several years, L&I will modernize technology across the Dept., which will take place in phases. Independent Verification And Validation (IV&V) Consultant Candidates shall work to support requirements for Program Support and Independent Verification And Validation (IV&V) Consultant will lead/oversee the Verification and Validation activities in alignment with the Client Organizations requirements, policies, guidelines including but not limited to the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) Policy 132. 

As such, it is expected that the IV&V Consultant be knowledgeable and practiced in all aspects of Information Technology system life cycle project management processes as defined in the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK).  Duties would include reviewing, monitoring, and observing product development/implementation/customizations (such as a software), project activities Statement Of Work completion, or service-level agreement (SLA).  Additionally, they would be responsible for supporting the written assessment reports developed by the team and overseeing the recommendations developed to ensure they provide early warning to our clients of potential risks; including, actionable input and recommendations that can be tracked to completion.

• For each IV&V Consultant Services Engagement, The ProSidian Team will perform the following primary duties:
• Attend required meetings with the project steering committee(s), agency leadership, project teams (and, if applicable, project staff), and other stakeholders as required.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with project staff and customers to solve complex issues.
• Develop and deliver anomaly reports reviewing specific processes, work products, deliverables, or other project attributes offering an assessment of their soundness, appropriateness, and ability to contribute to project success.
• Develop and deliver comprehensive periodic assessment reports containing results of oversight tasks and recommendations for improvement.
• Duties include assessing the quality and compliance with industry accepted practices of the project’s processes, work products, and deliverables.
• Further responsibilities include tracking the response to recommendations made in the reports to ensure the system integrator and/or the client are addressing the risks in order to ensure successful outcomes.
• Help document accomplishments and key Deliverables and meet regularly with project teams, as needed, upon intervals based upon current project activities.
• Lead/oversee/support IV&V Methodology development and refinement in designing the right mixture of manual and automation tests to deliver quality effectively on time and budget to monitor progress against schedule (status and stage of completion), costs, requirements, and project Deliverables in compliance for risk indicators.
• lead/oversee/support Verification And Validation reviews and assessments of client and vendor activities, work products, and deliverables that includes identification of potential risks and recommendations for mitigation.
• Make specific actionable recommendations to address any anomalies or findings reported.
• Participate on or lead a team in review and assessment of the methodologies, processes, plans, tasks, work products, and deliverables produced by a system integration vendor or client implementation team and provide recommendations for improving quality and maximizing business value realization.
• Participate on, or leads a team, conducting oversight and assessment activities for large-scale software development projects.
• Provide IV&V Consultant  services during the specific timeframe (e.g., procurement development through solution implementation and Go-Live of the initial project phase, project start-up through completion of a key critical event, etc.) and as defined under any authorized Statement of Work (SOW).
• Support the client management and stakeholders to plan for and address risks and issues as they occur, in an effort to ensure that the project remains on schedule and within budget.
• The IV&V Consultant interacts with multiple technical and business stakeholders and supports the client in assuring the successful outcome of the systems development / implementation life cycle.