Responsibilities
- Create and update survey content
- Navigate specification documents in Word, Excel and/or PDF
- Communicate directly with sponsors
- Make certain all pages are 508 compliant
- Create and update features of survey
- Work on surveys from beginning to end - from the initial specification documents through its life on the production server and repeating when they roll over from year to year
- Create and update survey content testing and a survey's existence on production
- Navigate specification documents in Word, Excel and/or PDF files
- Communicate directly with each sponsor about expectations and clarifying any ambiguous text in the specifications
- Basic linux navigation is required (text editor, run scripts)
- Verification of forms and behind-the-scenes calculations for each survey in perl
- Other functional items, usually along the lines of restricting types of input or number of characters in text boxes in javascript (sometimes with jquery)
- Navigate surveys to corresponding PDF forms in Acrobat Pro (pdf version, view form field names)
- Create/update and responsible for doing what sponsor wants, which involves copying an implementation of a feature from another survey or building an entirely new function
- Using perl code, add a js plugin to a survey, and parse data for information that will impact where to send the user next
- Testing/bug fix which involves monitoring the tracker for each in-testing survey and responsible for fixing issues as needed for the testers
- Run load script once to test; putting ticket in for the actual change
Requirements
- Work on surveys from beginning to end - from the initial specification documents through its life on the production server and repeating when they roll over from year to year
- Create and update survey content testing and a survey's existence on production
- Navigate specification documents in Word, Excel and/or PDF files
- Communicate directly with each sponsor about expectations and clarifying any ambiguous text in the specifications
- Basic linux navigation is required (text editor, run scripts)
- Verification of forms and behind-the-scenes calculations for each survey in perl
- Other functional items, usually along the lines of restricting types of input or number of characters in text boxes in javascript (sometimes with jquery)
- Make certain all pages are 508 compliant
- Navigate surveys to corresponding PDF forms in Acrobat Pro (pdf version, view form field names)
- Create/update and responsible for doing what sponsor wants, which involves copying an implementation of a feature from another survey or building an entirely new function
- Using perl code, add a js plugin to a survey, and parse data for information that will impact where to send the user next
- Testing/bug fix which involves monitoring the tracker for each in-testing survey and responsible for fixing issues as needed for the testers
- Run load script once to test; putting ticket in for the actual change
- Good problem solving and communication skills
- Willingness to proactively ask questions outside of comfort zone
- Coding, basic understanding of how databases function, perl, javascript, jquery, PHP
- Most of the pages are generated using an internal forms library but some manual work with HTML and CSS required
Work Arrangement
On-site — Suitland, MD
Additional Information
- Referral Bonus up to $2500
- Fulltime position
