
Kaiser Permanente
641
RoleTech Support
LevelMid Level
LocationDowney, CA, Flexible, Full-time, Day
WorkOn-site
TypeStandard
PostedToday
About the role
Job Summary:
This position supports the Inpatient Pharmacy Inventory Project (IPIP) within National Pharmacy Informatics, focusing on testing, environment management, and application support across enterprise pharmacy systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Testing Coordination
- Manage Enterprise Testing Services (ETS) execution for IPIP test cases
- Oversee testing cycles, defect tracking, and validation to ensure system readiness
- Test Case Development & Maintenance
- Create, update, and maintain comprehensive IPIP test cases
- Ensure test coverage aligns with workflows, system requirements, and regulatory standards
- Test Environment Management
- Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot test environments
- Perform environment shakedown to validate readiness prior to testing and deployment
- Application Deployment & Support
- Assist with implementation, deployment, and ongoing support of key systems, including:
- CII Safe ES
- Pyxis Logistics
- Willow Inventory
- Support system integration, interface troubleshooting, and issue resolution
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with internal teams, IT stakeholders, and external vendors
- Coordinate activities to ensure alignment across testing, deployment, and operational workflows
This individual contributor is primarily responsible for providing first, second and third level support to resolve difficult or complex problems, performing and/or coordinating the setup and maintenance of computer systems, coordinating with third party hardware and/or software vendors.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Completes work assignments and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area; supporting the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; ensuring team follows all procedures and policies; coordinating and assigning resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines; collaborating cross-functionally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating high priority issues or risks, as appropriate; and recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities.
- Practices self-development and promotes learning in others by proactively providing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and customers; building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; influencing others through technical explanations and examples; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; providing feedback to others and managers; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; supporting team collaboration; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
- Provides first and second level support to resolve difficult, complex, and sensitive problems with products and applications by meeting customer service standards (e.g., displaying a positive attitude, actively listening, taking ownership, leveraging knowledge, communicating clearly).
- Resolves highly complex problems and provides support to others.
- Supports and assists with troubleshooting efforts in conjunction with customer to identify highly complex problems.
- Assists with efforts to analyze and prioritize incoming requests and alerts.
- Identifies highly complex problems and escalates to senior staff for prioritization.
- Follows procedures for incident escalation and notification to leadership.
- Follows and facilitates the development of standard operating procedures.
- Facilitates the tracking and development of documentation by entering details of problems, status of service requests, and resolutions into the company tracking system.
- Facilitates efforts to meet key performance indicators (e.g., performance, availability, capacity).
- Supports and assists with the documentation of workarounds for problem records and changes to proactive processes.
- Reviews information and supports the compilation of information (e.g., procedures, installation, configuration) related to new technology.
- Facilitates the knowledge repository for highly complex technical support.
- Supports and assists with the execution of disaster recovery and business continuity processes and events.
Required skills
Pharmacy support
Prescription workflows
Customer service
About Kaiser Permanente
Downey
Headquarters