New Hire Checklist

Table of Contents

First Week
First Month
When You Have a PIV Card

This checklist guides new developers through the onboarding process from your first week through receiving your PIV card.

The timeframes are not strict requirements; you will meet with the Onboarding team to provide updates along the way. This checklist is tailored to application and service developers, but many parts apply to infrastructure development as well.

First Week

Onboarding Requirements

Complete e-QIP form (confirm with Amy) and any other onboarding paperwork
Respond to and complete any requests related to your onboarding, clearance, or contract requirements. These take priority over any regular work — communicate with the Onboarding team
Meet the onboarding team members, introduced by the Onboarding PM. The Onboarding Product Owners (POs) provide mentorship and guidance throughout the process — consider them your "onboarding buddies"
Attend the Developer Onboarding presentation

Accounts Setup

Read through the Accounts page, focusing on the Early Onboarding Accounts section

Workstation Setup

The setup script does the setup, token, Maven, clone and docker login items below, plus the location-service build, in one run. You still need the credentials and the IDE license first.

Review and begin working through your personalized Slack Onboarding Canvas
Get a license for your preferred IDE (ask Amy Calvert or Jonathan Williams if you do not already have one). We mostly use IntelliJ IDEA
Ask the Onboarding team to share credentials for git access to coderepo.mobilehealth.va.gov (Bitbucket username and token)
Ask the Onboarding team to share credentials for dtr.mapsandbox.net (sandbox DTR username and token)
Ask the Onboarding team to share credentials for nexus.mobilehealth.va.gov (VA Nexus username and token)
Complete the Development Environment Setup
Follow the steps for setting up your Token and Environment Configuration
Follow the steps for setting up your Maven Configuration
Clone a repo — https://coderepo.mobilehealth.va.gov/scm/vdms/location-service.git. Use the Bitbucket credentials provided by the onboarding team to authenticate. To clone other services, see Service Repositories
Complete a docker login dtr.mapsandbox.net using the sandbox DTR credentials provided by the onboarding team
Test the authentication by running docker pull dtr.mapsandbox.net/ckm/callback-service:1.9.0

Build a Java Service

You should now have all your accounts set up to allow a local build and deployment. Orbstack (or Docker) and Kubernetes should be installed and running with sufficient allocated resources, as specified in the Development Environment Setup.

Clone location-service’s repository: https://coderepo.mobilehealth.va.gov/scm/vdms/location-service.git
Build and test (make sure your container is running and Kubernetes is enabled):
```
cd location-service

# build and test:
mvn clean verify -Pwith-skaffold
```

If all of your configuration is correct, you should have a successful build. If not, work with the onboarding team to resolve the issue.

You will see a warning at the end of the build that says The requested profile "with-skaffold" could not be activated because it does not exist. This is a side effect of the way the service pom file is constructed from tiles during the build process and is expected behavior. You can safely ignore it as long as the build completes successfully.

First Month

Read through the Development & Review Process
Watch the Brown Bag Presentations:
- Agile 101
- CI/CD Principles, Cloud Architecture
- AWS Kinesis
- Debugging
- Kubernetes 101
- Impact of Prod Changes
- Peer Reviews
Complete the Developer Starter Project (or the FHIR Starter Project if you are joining a FHIR team)
Work through several stories within the Greenfield Development Curriculum
Complete a Peer Review Rotation within Greenfield

When You Have a PIV Card

Test your access to Crowd, Jira, Bitbucket, and the VA Wiki
Test your access to the MAP Sandbox DTR and Jenkins environments
Update your email address in Crowd to your Apothesource email (it defaults to your @va.gov address)
Create token values for your account credentials:
- https://coderepo.mobilehealth.va.gov/account (Crowd credentials)
- https://nexus.mapsandbox.net/ (Sandbox credentials)
- https://nexus.mobilehealth.va.gov (Crowd credentials)
- Update your environment configuration with your own user/token values
- Be sure to close out your terminal and IDE completely, or re-source your ~/.zshrc
Verify your credentials are working by following the steps in the Token Verification Checklist
Follow the instructions to set up your Smart Card reader and access CAG
Access your VA email through Outlook — each week you must keep Outlook open for ~30 minutes to stay compliant with requirements
Access your SQA/Staging accounts by navigating to the Admin IDP Web URL. To maintain access, regularly log in through Admin IDP in the SQA/Staging environment
Access your Prod accounts by navigating to the Admin IDP Web URL. To maintain access, regularly log in through Admin IDP in the Prod environment. Be sure to access AppDynamics in production as well