Immediate Opportunity for a Mobile Application Developer with experience developing in a multi-platform environment in our Reston, VA office in support of both commercial and federal clients. This position involves working as part of a team of developers on multiple enterprise programs on complex applications projects to build out applications that have both web and mobile components. The ideal candidate will have experience in web based applications as well as mobile design and development with an eye toward designing UI and UX. Familiarity with the HIG of the WinRT and Win10 platforms is also required. Experience developing on multi-platforms including but not limited to: HTML5 for iOS, Android and Windows is desired.

Mackson Consulting is looking to staff a team of software professionals based in Reston, VA to build and deploy new systems with mobile capabilities for our key government customers. These applications may involve single and/or multiple platform solutions. Work with a dynamic team of professionals delivering high quality software using an agile methodology. Integrate into a large government agencies core system using newly developed web services to provide a rapid delivery of a game changing key line of business application platform.

The successful candidate will have 5 years of development experience and at least 3 years of web andor mobile based HTMLJavaScript based application development in the following areas:

• Mobile application development
• Platform integration with Apache Cordova
• Mobile device and operating system troubleshooting
• Ability to create and maintain HTML based applications
• JavaScript, jQuery
• CSS
• SQLite or similar mobile database
• SCRUM
• Unit testing
• GIT

Preferred Skills (Not Required)

• Xamarin
• HTML 5

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Immediate Opportunity for a Senior QA Lead who is highly motivated to lead a QA team that is responsible for ensuring product quality before it ships to the customer. You should have experience building repeatable test processes, incorporating feature development into test plans and managing the execution of testing across various types of technologies. As the QA Lead, you will manage a team that will drive the creation of test frameworks and tools across mobile and web applications and ensure the execution of those tests through various automation frameworks. This role requires that you can take initiative, are comfortable presenting reports and inefficiencies that can be optimized and are capable of executing manual QA throughout the development cycle. If you are interested in leading a team to ensure quality on a wide array of the latest and most exciting kinds of software to hit the market and you have what it takes to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you.

The candidate selected for this position will:

• Work with product design and customer-facing teams to gather and verify requirements for test scenarios that match customer use cases
• Own the architecture and implementation of automation test frameworks across mobile, web, and backend services
• Be an active participant in iterating and improving engineering processes
• Work with customer-facing teams providing support to reproducing issues and gathering as much detail as possible to hand off to the appropriate teams
• Be able to lead and manage other people in terms of maximizing output while providing career growth

Qualifications 

Successful candidates must demonstrate a passion not only for technology, but for our mission to elevate the impact of people in the connected industrial work space. Candidates must be a citizen or have worked in the US for at least the past 3 years. Candidates should demonstrate:

• 5+ years experience as a test engineer / developer / or related field
• 5+ years experience managing other technical resources
• Git based workflow with build tools for continuous integration systems such as Jenkins
• Experience working with RESTful API implementations
• Unit test frameworks test driven development practices
• Agile development practices and feature estimations
• You enjoy collaborating across teams and work well in a cross-functional environment
• You thrive working in a fast-paced, and dynamic environment
• You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Education:  Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or demonstrate equivalent work experience

 Work Location: Reston, VA

Mackson Encourages An Innovative And Collaborative Environment That Offers Highly Competitive Salaries With An Exceptional Benefits Package, Including But Not Limited to:

• Medical – 4 PPO offerings
• Dental, Vision, STD, LTD and Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off (includes vacation and sick time)
• Company holidays
• 401K with company match

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Immediate Opportunity for a Senior Business Analyst in our Rockville, MD office. The Senior Business Analyst will also spend time on the customer site in Rockville, MD in support of both our commercial and federal clients. This position involves working as part of a team of analysts and developers on multiple projects to build out applications that have both web and mobile components. The ideal candidate will have experience in web based applications with a background of establishing good customer relationships.

Mackson Consulting is looking to staff a team of software professionals to build and deploy new systems with web and/or mobile capabilities for our key government customers. These applications may involve single and/or multiple platform solutions. These apps will include features such as being workflow driven, media capture, complex business rules, printing, barcode creation and scanning and many more interesting challenges.

Responsibilities and Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in a management or technical discipline (e.g., computer science) and a minimum of 6 years professional experience
• Establishing a positive relationship with the stakeholders
• Assisting with developing the business case and vision
• Documenting the as is state and to be state of systems
• Eliciting, analyzing and validating business requirements
• Clearly describing requirements following Agile User Story conventions
• Creating and maintaining a hierarchical feature driven view of requirements
• Examining and evaluating current systems to determine and assess capabilities and business rules
• Ability to become a product expert and communicating coherently to our clients
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Liaising with users to track additional requirements and features
• Training users on the new systems, applications and providing support
• User stories and other SDLC documentation
• Agile/SCRUM
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize and multitask
• Meeting deadlines and commitments
• Excellent written and oral communication including technical writing

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting HHS or FDA
• JIRA and other Agile Backlog tools like Visual Studio Online
• Familiarity with the SDLC / EPLC
• Familiarity with data analytics
• Keen sense of the User Experience and User Journey

About Mackson

Mackson Consulting, LLC is a CMMI level 3 appraised Women Owned Small Business (WOSB). We deliver IT and professional services, including Agile software development, to the commercial and public-sector markets. Work with a dynamic team of professionals delivering high quality software using an agile methodology. Integrate into large government agencies core systems using newly developed web services to provide a rapid delivery of a game changing key line of business application platform.

Mackson Encourages An Innovative And Collaborative Environment That Offers Highly Competitive Salaries With An Exceptional Benefits Package, Including But Not Limited To

• Medical – 4 PPO offerings
• Dental, Vision, STD, LTD and Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off (includes vacation and sick time)
• Company holidays
• 401K with company match

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Immediate Opportunity for a Java developer in support of our federal civilian client.   This position involves leading a team of developers in software development, data synchronization and systems integration activities.  The ideal candidate will have experience with Java development and a solid understanding of systems architecture.

Mackson Consulting, LLC is a CMMI level 3 appraised Women Owned Small Business (WOSB). We deliver IT and professional services, including Agile software development, to the commercial and public sector markets. Mackson encourages an innovative and collaborative environment that offers highly competitive salaries with an exceptional benefits package, including but not limited to

• Medical – 4 PPO offerings
• Dental, Vision, STD, LTD and Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off (includes vacation and sick time)
• Company holidays
• 401K with company match

Required Skills – 6+ years’ experience

• At least six (6) years of hands on experience with Java and related technologies such as: Core Java, JEE, EJB 3+, Hibernate 3+, JPA, JSF and Web technologies
• Experience with Ice Faces or Prime Faces
• Experience with the WebLogic configuration, application deployment
• Experience creating Design documentation, Target State Diagrams, and other development-related documentation
• Experience with version control tools such as Subversion
• Ability to quickly learn new applications
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and in teams

Other Valuable Skills

• Experience with Jasper Reports
• Experience with ColdFusion
• Experience with PL/SQL
• Experience with web application front-end development
• Experience working in a fast-paced Agile development environment
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying applications on physical and virtual servers
• Experience migrating legacy data using standard toolsets to web based data stores
• Experience with object persistence design patterns
• Experience using ETL tools, from non-relational systems to a relational data stores

Education:  Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

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Immediate Opportunity for a Java developer in support of our federal civilian client.   This position involves leading a team of developers in software development, data synchronization and systems integration activities.  The ideal candidate will have experience with Java development and a solid understanding of systems architecture.

Mackson Consulting, LLC is a CMMI level 3 appraised Women Owned Small Business (WOSB). We deliver IT and professional services, including Agile software development, to the commercial and public sector markets. Mackson encourages an innovative and collaborative environment that offers highly competitive salaries with an exceptional benefits package, including but not limited to

• Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, LTD and Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off (includes vacation and sick time)
• Company holidays
• 401K with company match

Required Skills – 6+ Years Experience

• Java database application development experience including significant understanding and use of both SQL and Java.
• Experience with IceFaces and PrimeFaces.
• SOAP/REST web service development experience.
• JavaScript development experience and experience using JSON.
• Experience with XML/XSD definition, XPath and XML parsing libraries.
• Experience with SVN, JIRA, Maven, Junit, Bamboo, and Puppet.
• Oracle database experience including strong SQL experience.
• Web application development experience using WebLogic.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) experience.

Other Valuable Skills

• Experience with Jasper Reports
• Experience with ColdFusion
• Experience with PL/SQL
• Experience with web application front-end development
• Experience working in a fast-paced Agile development environment
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying applications on physical and virtual servers
• Experience migrating legacy data using standard toolsets to web based data stores
• Experience with object persistence design patterns
• Experience using ETL tools, from non-relational systems to a relational data stores

Education:  Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

Work Location: Rockville, MD

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