What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Assessment position at HMG America?
Job Description
HMG America LLC is the best Business Solutions focused Information Technology Company with IT consulting and services, software and web development, staff augmentation and other professional services. One of our direct clients is looking for Software Assessment in Berkeley Heights, NJ. Below is the detailed job description.
Title: Software Assessment
Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Duration: Long term
Job Description:
The role of the Software Assessment / Packager is to 1) research, review, and document risk tolerance of 3rd party software titles. Based on specific actionable criteria the person filling this role produces documented recommendations to Engineering team and 2) create application packages and develop custom scripts based on business requirements.
- Reviews and assesses risk associated with new and existing 3rd party software titles producing corresponding documentation.
- Collects and analyses pertinent software documentation, industry statistics, release notes, vulnerability mgmt., and life cycle mgmt.
- Collaborates with Engineering, Operations, and Security teams.
- Documents their recommendations for approval or denial status based on collected evidence.
- Creates deployment packages and custom applications for net new software titles, upgrades, and application uninstalls.
- Creates, submits, and obtains approvals for application deployment change controls.
- Participates in QA and peer review process with Operations team.
- Documents tech specifications for all new and updated application packages.
- Manages required and available software deployments using SCCM/MECM.
- Performs other duties as directed.
- The candidate should be a critical thinker. He will be given instructions but he should be able to take decision on his own.
- Software review and application packaging (Must Have)
- Application packing software - PS APP Deploy Toolkit (PSADTK).
- At least 1 year of application packaging experience (Must Have).