APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT SUPERVISOR

DEPT OF HEALTH SERVICES The Arizona Department of Health Services promotes and protects the health of Arizona’s children and adults. Our mission is to promote, protect, and improve the health and wellness of individuals and communities in Arizona. We strive to set the standard for personal and community health through direct care, science, public policy, and leadership. ADHS promotes alternative work schedules, flexible hours. The Apps Dev Supervisor is a hands-on leadership role responsible for driving the quality of our application software while managing a small, agile engineering team. The majority of this role involves active Quality Assurance—creating test plans, executing automated and manual tests, and ensuring application stability. Additionally, the Apps Dev Supervisor provides direct supervision, mentorship, and task management for one Developer and one QA Analyst, ensuring the team delivers high-quality code on schedule. Currently a hybrid position (3 days in the office and 2 days remote). Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, and scripts for new application features and system updates. Build and maintain automated testing frameworks to improve efficiency and testing coverage across our applications. Identify, document, and track software defects; verify bug fixes and coordinate with the development team to resolve structural issues. Release Management: Act one of the gatekeepers for code releases, ensuring all applications meet strict quality, security, and performance standards before deployment. Team Management: Directly supervise a small technical team (1 Developer, 1 QA), overseeing their day-to-day tasks, sprint planning, and workload distribution. Mentorship: Provide technical guidance, conduct code and test-case reviews, and support the professional development of your direct reports. Code Review: Review pull requests from the developer to ensure coding standards, security, and architectural guidelines are met. Partner with the developer to troubleshoot complex application bugs, optimize queries, or resolve infrastructure issues as needed. Performance Tracking: Conduct regular 1-on-1s, perform annual performance reviews, and ensure the team is meeting its KPIs and project deadlines. Thorough knowledge of service offerings, customer service principles and processes, back-office server applications, desktop applications, web-based applications, client/server applications, computer/networking hardware, standard operating systems, common third-party software applications, internally developed custom applications, application integrations, networking protocols, and any other computer-related technologies. QA & Dev Tools: Proficient in testing frameworks (Playwright), bug tracking (ADO), and version control (e.g., JavaScript, Python, C#) to review developer work and write automated tests. Workflow Management: Capable of running Agile/Scrum sprint planning for a small team. Strong customer service skills Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills. Ability to seamlessly pivot between deep, focused QA testing and high-level supervisory tasks. Coaching: The emotional intelligence to constructively critique code and test plans to foster team growth. Decisiveness: The confidence to act as the final gatekeeper for production-ready deployments. Demonstrated ability to resolve incidents/problems efficiently and effectively, recognizing customers’ competence levels, and able to approach each level appropriately. Demonstrated ability to understand and anticipate needs and priorities of both internal and external customers. Bachelor’s degree plus 3 or more years of experience as a leader on an agile team. Any QA, Engineering, Agile or Scrum Certifications preferred. Must possess a valid level one fingerprint clearance card issues pursuant to A.
Affordable medical and dental insurance plans ~ Paid Parental Leave-Up to 12 weeks per year paid leave for newborn or newly-placed foster/adopted child (pilot program) ~10 paid holidays per year ~ Life insurance ~ Short/long-term disability insurance ~ Defined retirement plan ~ Credit union membership ~ Retirement To help you build a financially secure future, the State makes monthly contributions to finance your retirement benefit. Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation such as a sign language interpreter or an alternative format by emailing steven.
DHS is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.