[JOB] Pubmet Quality Assurance-Opportunity within NIH

[Sonya Morath]

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MSD - NCBI PubMed Team Member

Summary:
The Information Specialist as a Team Member will provide internal support for the NIH PubMed, MeSH and Journals Entrez databases. Details about PubMed are available at the following link:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/overview.html
MSD is an employee-owned company of over 500 professionals who support the diverse technical, scientific, and administrative ne

Position Description
The team member provides support for the National Library of Medicine's PubMed, MeSH and Journals Entrez databases. Details about PubMed are available:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/overview.html

Duties
-Detailed testing of current PubMed software and enhancements by generating test reports including results of testing and product stability, and recommendations focusing on potential problems and subsequent software releases.
-Quality control activities associated with daily database indexing.
-Assist in the completion of product documentation and training material.
-Liaison with NLM and NCBI staff regarding journal issues including the monitoring of the NCBI internal journals database. 
-NCBI liaison at the ongoing meetings associated with MeSH, NLM's controlled vocabulary of biomedical terms used to index MEDLINE. 


Qualifications
-Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or related business degree with technology experience
-Knowledge of web application testing
-Experience in enterprise level QA with web-based applications.
-Software test experience in developing test strategies, test cases and creating scripts. 
-PERL programming
-Knowledge of database structure, searching and indexing concepts, and bibliographic record formats including a background in library of information science is a plus.

Interested applicants should submit resume and salary requirements to Sonya Morath, Sr. Recruiter. smorath at msdinc.com Please contact 703-891-6449 with any questions. 





Sonya Morath, Sr. Recruiter
Health Information Group for NIH
Management System Designers Inc.
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Tel: 703-891-6449
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smorath at msdinc.com