Wednesday, July 18, 2007

QA Lead in New York, NY

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Job Details:

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

. Reviews and analyzes requirements, design, and technical specifications documents by conducting formal requirements walkthroughs/inspections

. Develops test strategy and approach

. Develops test plans, cases, and scripts

. Develops and maintains test data and/or test harnesses

. Manages and creates test data library

. Works with the development team to understand the source-to-destination data mapping, as well as the data transformation process, between multiple systems

. Performs and manages integration testing by executing test plans and cases

. May plan, design, and execute functional GUI-based tests on an as-needed basis

. Facilitates meetings with system development staff throughout the test effort



JOB SKILLS:

. Expert in database querying tools such as TOAD or SQL Query Analyzer

. Expert in writing SQL queries, including complex joins

. Expert in analyzing database schemas, and ability to create or locate master data within Oracle

. Extremely knowledgeable with data warehousing concepts, including star schemas, fact tables, and dimensional modeling

. Ability to navigate and understand Cognos BI configuration a plus

. Strong knowledge of software testing methodologies and best practices

. Strong knowledge of requirements analyzing process

. Excellent verbal and written communication skills

. Excellent interpersonal skills

. Extremely entrepreneurial and ability to work independently

. Ability to work under tight deadlines

. Ability to think of alternative solutions in order to complete test efforts under changing conditions

. Must possess strong analytical and diagnostic skills, and be detailed oriented
Experience: EXPERIENCE:

. Minimum of five (5) years of being a Software QA/Test Professional, having formal testing experience with client/server, Windows-based relational database software required.

. Minimum of five (5) years experience in business intelligence, reporting, querying, and analysis (Cognos experience preferred).

. Minimum of two (2) years of experience with minimum of two (2) of the following required:

o Testing data integrity across multiple systems in an integrated environment

o Creating test harnesses to simulate data from third-party systems

o Creating test scripts using Mercury Suite of tools (Quality Center, Test Director, QTP, WR, LoadRunner)

o Involvement in a least two (2) Business Intelligence installations or large enhancement full life cycle projects

. Expert in back-end test designing required (i.e. database and third-party system interfaces without a GUI)

. Experience with formal testing best practices and test design techniques; familiar with the software testing lexicon

. Experience with both manual and automated test designing required

. Experience working in an environment using basic SDLC Methodology required

. Experience with Mercury products preferred



EDUCATION:

. Bachelors Degree in computer science or related field

. Formal software testing training ideal

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