Tuesday, June 10, 2008

GHX - TECHNICAL BUSINESS ANALYST, SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, SOFTWARE ENGINEER, SR. QA ENGINEER

[rmiug-jobs] Digest Number 4572

TECHNICAL BUSINESS ANALYST - LOUISVILLE, CO
Posted by: "jhagaman13" jhagaman13@aol.com
Date: Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:36 pm ((PDT))

Organization Overview
GHX is committed to advancing the business of healthcare, leading to
improved patient care worldwide. Owned by an industry collaboration
of medical providers and suppliers, GHX provides a business hub to
drive better performance in healthcare. GHX helps any organization
that buys, sells, uses and tracks healthcare products realize costs
savings, gain efficiencies, and make better business decisions.
Currently, organizations representing more than 80 percent of the
hospital beds and medical products sold in the United States
participate in GHX, as do a considerable number of healthcare
providers and suppliers in Canada and Europe. As the business hub
evolves and participation grows, the opportunities to improve
healthcare expand beyond supply chain automation to initiatives that
can improve patient safety.

Fast Facts
GHX enables more than 6300 healthcare providers and 2200 suppliers
in North America to conduct business electronically.

GHX has established more than 52,000 unique trading partner
connections in North America.

GHX Europe operates in the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland,
Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and under roaming
agreements in France and Spain.

GHX is on target to transact more than $26 billion in purchase
orders through the exchange in 2008.

GHX handles numerous supply chain transactions, including purchase
orders, purchase order acknowledgements, advanced ship notices, and
electronic invoices, among others.

GHX handled more than 12 million electronic invoices in 2007, double
the number the previous year.

In addition to the electronic trading exchange, GHX also offers
business intelligence and mobile solutions for the healthcare
industry:

• GHX Business Intelligence obtains and analyzes an estimated
80 percent of all U.S. sales transaction data on distributed
healthcare products across seven key healthcare market segments:

• More than 4000 supplier representatives currently utilize
GHX Mobile Solutions for sales force automation and inventory
management.

Ownership
GHX is owned by manufacturers, distributors, providers, and group
purchasing organizations. Equity owners include: Abbott Exchange,
Inc.; AmerisourceBergen Corp.; Baxter Healthcare Corp.; B Braun
Medical Inc.; Becton, Dickinson & Co.; Boston Scientific Corp.;
Cardinal Health, Inc.; C.R. Bard, Inc.; Fisher Scientific
International, Inc.; GE Healthcare; HCA; Johnson & Johnson Health
Care Systems Inc.; McKesson Corp.; Medtronic USA, Inc.; Owens &
Minor; Premier, Inc.; Siemens; Covidien; University HealthSystem
Consortium; and VHA Inc.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Summary

As Technology Business Analyst, you'll evaluate business
requirements and assess needs related to multiple products and
implementations, using knowledge and initiative to seek solutions
and make recommendations on moderately complex assignments. You will
develop and maintain information and documentation related to
developing and modifying business processes and systems. You will
review system documentation to identify how a system might impact
the business application's systems.
Your business and technical experience and collaborative skills will
be key as you work with business representatives and technical
development resources to determine business application needs.
You'll conduct and analyze business technology processes, and
participate in the definition, documentation, testing, training,
implementation, and support of system requirements

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the gathering of requirements.
• JAR/JAD facilitation.
• Participate in the implementation of the requirements, including
building and maintaining rules.
• Work closely with Product Management, Quality Assurance, &
Development to ensure requirements and testing plans are sufficient
and understood by all parties.
• Collaborate with development resources on application design and
documentation
• Identify process and business system impacts of new products and
implementations and work as liaison with other areas that impact or
are impacted.
• Participate with quality assurance and quality control on the
creation and execution of acceptance testing, and support impacted
areas with rollout training.
• Be responsible for producing project deliverables, such as, As Is
and To Be flows, detailed requirements, design, and implementation
guides
• Acts as primary liaison for requirement clarification with
business owners.
• Interface with the development team to coordinate functional
specification understanding and clarify issues.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Technology, Business Discipline or equivalent
experience
• 2+ years of experience in documentation efforts for medium to
large-scale technology projects
• IT experience in business system analysis in a large-scale
environment across multiple hardware and software platforms.
• Excellent PC skills - Windows environment (Word, Excel, Visio,
PowerPoint), preferably with working knowledge of a database.
• Strong technical knowledge and ability to express complex
technical concepts in understandable terms.
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills and ability to
communicate with all management levels both inside and outside of
the company.
• Strong communication skills; verbal, written, listening.
• Excellent analytical (business/systems) and problem solving skills.
• Strong facilitation skills.
• Experience in writing Application Use Cases/ Use Case Engineering
• Able to design screen layouts, flow diagrams, and operating
procedures
• Able to learn new technology or functional area quickly and
thoroughly
• Able to understand and clearly document complex business rules and
logic
• Able to work in an energetic, fast-paced, and interruption-driven
environment
• Able to produce professional looking documentation
• Self-motivation, high attention to detail and strong analytical
skills
Additional Qualifications
• Understanding of processing systems, data modeling and structured
analysis.

________________________________________________________________________
21. SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER (JAVA/OOD/J2EE) - LOUISVILLE, CO
Posted by: "jhagaman13" jhagaman13@aol.com
Date: Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:36 pm ((PDT))

Organization Overview
GHX is committed to advancing the business of healthcare, leading to
improved patient care worldwide. Owned by an industry collaboration
of medical providers and suppliers, GHX provides a business hub to
drive better performance in healthcare. GHX helps any organization
that buys, sells, uses and tracks healthcare products realize costs
savings, gain efficiencies, and make better business decisions.
Currently, organizations representing more than 80 percent of the
hospital beds and medical products sold in the United States
participate in GHX, as do a considerable number of healthcare
providers and suppliers in Canada and Europe. As the business hub
evolves and participation grows, the opportunities to improve
healthcare expand beyond supply chain automation to initiatives that
can improve patient safety.

Fast Facts
GHX enables more than 6300 healthcare providers and 2200 suppliers
in North America to conduct business electronically.

GHX has established more than 52,000 unique trading partner
connections in North America.

GHX Europe operates in the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland,
Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and under roaming
agreements in France and Spain.

GHX is on target to transact more than $26 billion in purchase
orders through the exchange in 2008.

GHX handles numerous supply chain transactions, including purchase
orders, purchase order acknowledgements, advanced ship notices, and
electronic invoices, among others.

GHX handled more than 12 million electronic invoices in 2007, double
the number the previous year.

In addition to the electronic trading exchange, GHX also offers
business intelligence and mobile solutions for the healthcare
industry:

• GHX Business Intelligence obtains and analyzes an estimated
80 percent of all U.S. sales transaction data on distributed
healthcare products across seven key healthcare market segments:

• More than 4000 supplier representatives currently utilize
GHX Mobile Solutions for sales force automation and inventory
management.

Ownership
GHX is owned by manufacturers, distributors, providers, and group
purchasing organizations. Equity owners include: Abbott Exchange,
Inc.; AmerisourceBergen Corp.; Baxter Healthcare Corp.; B Braun
Medical Inc.; Becton, Dickinson & Co.; Boston Scientific Corp.;
Cardinal Health, Inc.; C.R. Bard, Inc.; Fisher Scientific
International, Inc.; GE Healthcare; HCA; Johnson & Johnson Health
Care Systems Inc.; McKesson Corp.; Medtronic USA, Inc.; Owens &
Minor; Premier, Inc.; Siemens; Covidien; University HealthSystem
Consortium; and VHA Inc.

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB SUMMARY
This position is a Sr. Software Engineer with substantial hands-on
experience as an Object Oriented designer and Java programmer. The
ideal candidate must have knowledge of application servers
(preferably Tomcat and Jboss) and JSP based web applications. Should
be able to own and drive the development of a component or product
to completion with a high level of quality.
Collaboration with other Software Engineers, Business Analysts and
Quality Assurance will be required to architect, develop, and design
applications. The successful candidate will be able to propose,
design, and communicate solutions to business problems requiring
development across multiple applications

RESPONSIBILITIES
(1) Designing and developing J2EE Web application solutions,
(2) Analyzing business requirements and formulating supporting
design and design documentation,
(3) Supporting and contributing to a J2EE application framework,
(4) Augmenting implementations with supporting unit tests as well as
system test specifications and implementations,
(5) Generate automated deployment of developed solutions,
(6) Mentoring team members,
(7) Understanding the applications and data models developed by this
team and other teams so that solutions are optimized for the larger
environment rather than just one system,
(8) Promoting collaboration through activities such as design
sessions, design reviews, pair programming, etc.,
(9) Developing implementation and troubleshooting guides.
(10) Other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS
The chosen candidate will have substantial hands-on experience as an
Object Oriented designer and Java J2EE programmer with an extensive
knowledge of Web application development. This individual must also
have significant experience with the following technologies:
Core Java, Servlets, JSP, Struts or other MVC framework, JDBC, XML,
SQL, Solaris and/or NT.

- BS Computer Science, related degree or equivalent experience
- 5 or more years of software development experience
- 3 or more years Java development experience

Demonstrated ability in:

- Web application design and development
- Java Servlet / JSP, MVC development
- Object Oriented design and implementation
- Understanding and support of a full product life-cycle
- Use of structured design methodologies

Other required skills:

- Ability to be self-motivated
- Ability analyze the surrounding environment for clues on how to
proceed.
- Ability to complete tasks and produce deliverables within tight
time schedules
- Desire to work in a fast-paced, performance-driven, environment
- Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
- Strong analytical skills

________________________________________________________________________
22. SOFTWARE ENGINEER (OOD/Java/Web UI Focus) - LOUISVILLE, CO
Posted by: "jhagaman13" jhagaman13@aol.com
Date: Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:36 pm ((PDT))

Organization Overview
GHX is committed to advancing the business of healthcare, leading to
improved patient care worldwide. Owned by an industry collaboration
of medical providers and suppliers, GHX provides a business hub to
drive better performance in healthcare. GHX helps any organization
that buys, sells, uses and tracks healthcare products realize costs
savings, gain efficiencies, and make better business decisions.
Currently, organizations representing more than 80 percent of the
hospital beds and medical products sold in the United States
participate in GHX, as do a considerable number of healthcare
providers and suppliers in Canada and Europe. As the business hub
evolves and participation grows, the opportunities to improve
healthcare expand beyond supply chain automation to initiatives that
can improve patient safety.

Fast Facts
GHX enables more than 6300 healthcare providers and 2200 suppliers
in North America to conduct business electronically.

GHX has established more than 52,000 unique trading partner
connections in North America.

GHX Europe operates in the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland,
Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and under roaming
agreements in France and Spain.

GHX is on target to transact more than $26 billion in purchase
orders through the exchange in 2008.

GHX handles numerous supply chain transactions, including purchase
orders, purchase order acknowledgements, advanced ship notices, and
electronic invoices, among others.

GHX handled more than 12 million electronic invoices in 2007, double
the number the previous year.

In addition to the electronic trading exchange, GHX also offers
business intelligence and mobile solutions for the healthcare
industry:

• GHX Business Intelligence obtains and analyzes an estimated
80 percent of all U.S. sales transaction data on distributed
healthcare products across seven key healthcare market segments:

• More than 4000 supplier representatives currently utilize
GHX Mobile Solutions for sales force automation and inventory
management.

Ownership
GHX is owned by manufacturers, distributors, providers, and group
purchasing organizations. Equity owners include: Abbott Exchange,
Inc.; AmerisourceBergen Corp.; Baxter Healthcare Corp.; B Braun
Medical Inc.; Becton, Dickinson & Co.; Boston Scientific Corp.;
Cardinal Health, Inc.; C.R. Bard, Inc.; Fisher Scientific
International, Inc.; GE Healthcare; HCA; Johnson & Johnson Health
Care Systems Inc.; McKesson Corp.; Medtronic USA, Inc.; Owens &
Minor; Premier, Inc.; Siemens; Covidien; University HealthSystem
Consortium; and VHA Inc.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
Job Summary

This position is a Software Engineer with substantial hands-on
experience as an Object Oriented designer and Java programmer. The
ideal candidate must have knowledge of application servers
(preferably Tomcat and Jboss) and JSP based web applications.
Should be able to own and drive the development of a component or
product to completion with a high level of quality.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Responsible for contributing to one project at a time in the
following tasks:
(1) Designing and developing J2EE B2B application solutions,
(2) Analyzing business requirements and formulating supporting
design, design documentation,
(3) Supporting and contributing to a J2EE application framework
(4) Augment implementations with supporting unit tests as well
as system test specifications and implementations.
(5) Generate automated deployment of developed solutions.
(6) Developing implementation and troubleshooting guides.


Minimum Qualifications

• BS in computer science or equivalent
• 3 or more years of software development experience
• 2 or more years Java/J2EE development experience
• Web GUI development experience

Demonstrated ability in:

- Web application design and development
- Java EJB, Servlet / JSP, MVC development
- Object Oriented design and implementation
- Understanding and support of a full product life-cycle
- Use of structured design methodologies

Strong:

- Experience with both SQL and PL/SQL
- Knowledge of XML, XML Schemas

Other required skills:

- Ability to be self-motivated
- Ability analyze the surrounding environment for clues on how to
proceed.
- Ability to complete tasks and produce deliverables within tight
time schedules
- Desire to work in a fast-paced, performance-driven, environment
- Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
- Strong analytical skills

________________________________________________________________________
25. SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER (J2EE WORKFLOW/J2EE/JAVA/SQL) - LOUISVILLE, CO
Posted by: "jhagaman13" jhagaman13@aol.com
Date: Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:00 pm ((PDT))

Organization Overview
GHX is committed to advancing the business of healthcare, leading to
improved patient care worldwide. Owned by an industry collaboration
of medical providers and suppliers, GHX provides a business hub to
drive better performance in healthcare. GHX helps any organization
that buys, sells, uses and tracks healthcare products realize costs
savings, gain efficiencies, and make better business decisions.
Currently, organizations representing more than 80 percent of the
hospital beds and medical products sold in the United States
participate in GHX, as do a considerable number of healthcare
providers and suppliers in Canada and Europe. As the business hub
evolves and participation grows, the opportunities to improve
healthcare expand beyond supply chain automation to initiatives that
can improve patient safety.

Fast Facts
GHX enables more than 6300 healthcare providers and 2200 suppliers
in North America to conduct business electronically.

GHX has established more than 52,000 unique trading partner
connections in North America.

GHX Europe operates in the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland,
Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and under roaming
agreements in France and Spain.

GHX is on target to transact more than $26 billion in purchase
orders through the exchange in 2008.

GHX handles numerous supply chain transactions, including purchase
orders, purchase order acknowledgements, advanced ship notices, and
electronic invoices, among others.

GHX handled more than 12 million electronic invoices in 2007, double
the number the previous year.

In addition to the electronic trading exchange, GHX also offers
business intelligence and mobile solutions for the healthcare
industry:

• GHX Business Intelligence obtains and analyzes an estimated
80 percent of all U.S. sales transaction data on distributed
healthcare products across seven key healthcare market segments:

• More than 4000 supplier representatives currently utilize
GHX Mobile Solutions for sales force automation and inventory
management.

Ownership
GHX is owned by manufacturers, distributors, providers, and group
purchasing organizations. Equity owners include: Abbott Exchange,
Inc.; AmerisourceBergen Corp.; Baxter Healthcare Corp.; B Braun
Medical Inc.; Becton, Dickinson & Co.; Boston Scientific Corp.;
Cardinal Health, Inc.; C.R. Bard, Inc.; Fisher Scientific
International, Inc.; GE Healthcare; HCA; Johnson & Johnson Health
Care Systems Inc.; McKesson Corp.; Medtronic USA, Inc.; Owens &
Minor; Premier, Inc.; Siemens; Covidien; University HealthSystem
Consortium; and VHA Inc.

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB SUMMARY
This position is a Senior Software Engineer with substantial hands-
on experience with Java, J2EE and PL/SQL development. The ideal
candidate must have knowledge of J2EE workflow applications, J2EE
web applications, JBoss, ANT, JSF, Oracle Packages, Stored
Procedures, Functions, Triggers, etc. The candidate should be able
to drive the development of database and application components to
completion with a high level of quality. The ideal candidate must
have a strong ability to learn existing application frameworks and
become a productive member of the team quickly. .

RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsible for contributing the following tasks:
(1) Analyzing business requirements and formulating a design with
supporting custom and UML-based documentation.
(2) Analyzing existing Java / PL/SQL code to determine best ways to
refactor and enhance it,
(3) Designing and developing J2EE application-server-based
applications,
(4) Designing and developing Oracle / SQL Server database components
(5) Generating supporting unit tests as well as system test
specifications and implementations,
(6) Generating automated deployment scripts for developed solutions,
(7) Developing implementation and troubleshooting guides,
(8) Effectively communicating with multiple different groups within
the organization,
(9) Effectively communicating design ideas to the team

(10) Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
• BS in computer science or equivalent
• 4 or more years of software development experience
• 3 or more years of SQL Server or Oracle database development
• 3 or more years Java web application design and development
• Understanding of the full product life-cycle
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to complete tasks and produce deliverables within tight
time schedules

________________________________________________________________________
27. SR. QA ENGINEER - LOUISVILLE, CO
Posted by: "jhagaman13" jhagaman13@aol.com
Date: Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:00 pm ((PDT))

Organization Overview
GHX is committed to advancing the business of healthcare, leading to
improved patient care worldwide. Owned by an industry collaboration
of medical providers and suppliers, GHX provides a business hub to
drive better performance in healthcare. GHX helps any organization
that buys, sells, uses and tracks healthcare products realize costs
savings, gain efficiencies, and make better business decisions.
Currently, organizations representing more than 80 percent of the
hospital beds and medical products sold in the United States
participate in GHX, as do a considerable number of healthcare
providers and suppliers in Canada and Europe. As the business hub
evolves and participation grows, the opportunities to improve
healthcare expand beyond supply chain automation to initiatives that
can improve patient safety.

Fast Facts
GHX enables more than 6300 healthcare providers and 2200 suppliers
in North America to conduct business electronically.

GHX has established more than 52,000 unique trading partner
connections in North America.

GHX Europe operates in the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland,
Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and under roaming
agreements in France and Spain.

GHX is on target to transact more than $26 billion in purchase
orders through the exchange in 2008.

GHX handles numerous supply chain transactions, including purchase
orders, purchase order acknowledgements, advanced ship notices, and
electronic invoices, among others.

GHX handled more than 12 million electronic invoices in 2007, double
the number the previous year.

In addition to the electronic trading exchange, GHX also offers
business intelligence and mobile solutions for the healthcare
industry:

• GHX Business Intelligence obtains and analyzes an estimated
80 percent of all U.S. sales transaction data on distributed
healthcare products across seven key healthcare market segments:

• More than 4000 supplier representatives currently utilize
GHX Mobile Solutions for sales force automation and inventory
management.

Ownership
GHX is owned by manufacturers, distributors, providers, and group
purchasing organizations. Equity owners include: Abbott Exchange,
Inc.; AmerisourceBergen Corp.; Baxter Healthcare Corp.; B Braun
Medical Inc.; Becton, Dickinson & Co.; Boston Scientific Corp.;
Cardinal Health, Inc.; C.R. Bard, Inc.; Fisher Scientific
International, Inc.; GE Healthcare; HCA; Johnson & Johnson Health
Care Systems Inc.; McKesson Corp.; Medtronic USA, Inc.; Owens &
Minor; Premier, Inc.; Siemens; Covidien; University HealthSystem
Consortium; and VHA Inc.

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB SUMMARY
This position provides QA and Technical expertise to test and
support Java web applications and their underlying databases. This
person will leverage strong understanding of IT systems to test
product functionality and automate testing where feasible.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Test products according to Engineering and business specifications.
• Create, execute and maintain complex test plans for products
• Create, execute and maintain automated test scripts
• Work with teams such as development and technical support to
deliver the best solution
• Challenge requirements and designs to ensure that they solve the
underlying problem or deliver the requested solution
• Isolate software problems, writing clear and detailed defect
reports.
• Create Defect Management reports describing product testing and
issue resolutions
• Configure software test tools and perform application
administration.
• Understand the operation of other products related to the team's
products
• Diagnose product problems by interacting with the team's products
and related products, researching log files, and querying databases
• Provide support and suggestions for continuously improving the
process for defect tracking and reporting
• Organize and manage multiple and competing tasks, priorities and
deadlines within own domain
• Develops expertise in the test environment, such as operating
systems, browsers, databases, network configuration, HTML, XML, etc.
• Test document maps (EDI, EANCOM, xCBL, etc) against their
specification and report discrepancies.
• And other duties as assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
• BS degree or equivalent experience
• The ability to perform in a dynamic environment to support the
testing needs of a multibillion-dollar transactional exchange.
• Working knowledge of hardware and software systems, components and
multiple platforms.
• Analytical and investigative problem-solving skills and the
tenacity to work to the resolution of complex tasks.
• The ability to assume responsibility for project assignments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong time management skills.
• The ability to create and maintain automated tests.
• A willingness to accept instruction and mentoring.
• A demonstrated ability to work independently.
• 4 or more years experience in a Software Testing or Support role.
• Experience with EDI is desirable