Location: Saint Paul, MN (Once restrictions are removed, work is expected to be onsite)

Job Description:

This request is for a Drools Developer/Programmer to work in collaboration with Client application development staff to enhance the application's maintainability, efficiency, accessibility, user experience, and resolving identified issues (bug fixes) and recommend changes as per business requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Work in collaboration with Client application development staff to enhance the application's maintainability, efficiency, accessibility, user experience, and resolving of identified issues (bug fixes) and recommend changes as per business requirements.


• Understand and merge both the technology base and customer business goals.


• Develop and run test scripts to ensure rules are working as required.


• Work with testers and subject matter experts to identify code changes and additions.


• Identify and recommend specific code changes to State staff.


• Work with the Technical Architects and Leads to gain a comprehensive and up to date understanding of the software application developed by open source community.


• Work with the Business Analysts (BA) and Quality Assurance (QA) and subject matter experts (SME) to identify changes, additions, and or enhancements due to application errors or bugs.


• Perform software development maintenance (bug fixes) for the project change requests, as this position requires a strong software development background.


• Maintain and follow Object Oriented programming best practices.


• Consult and collaborate with in-house experts to ensure UI Standards are properly implemented and applied in the application.


• Perform comprehensive system and application code testing so that application deployments are working without errors and application codes are error free.


• Ensure application code sets are checked in to the code repository with no coding errors.


• Provide documentation and knowledge transfer for Client staff.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Seven (7) years' experience with Java development


• Five (5) years' combined Java based User Interface experience web development with the following: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and JQuery


• Four (4) years' experience with automated testing


• Four (4) years' experience with Spring MVC


• Four (4) years' Drools experience, specifically with Decision tables


• Four (4) years' experience with a State government developing a Medicaid Provider Enrollment application.

Desired Skills:

• Two (2) years combined experience in designing and architecting applications


• Two (2) years' experience with web services


• Experience working with WebSphere application server


• Experience working with JPA/Hibernate


• Experience with web application testing frameworks (e.g. Selenium/WebDriver)


• Experience with JavaScript testing frameworks


• Experience with Maven


• Experience with Eclipse


• Experience with Oracle Database