Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Senior QA Analyst

Hi,

 

Title

Senior QA Analyst 

Primary Skills

QA Analyst 

Location

Vernon Hills,IL

Duration

6 Months

Job Description


F2F must. Locals preferred or who can come to f2f on their expenses


Education/Experience
- Bachelor???s Degree in Information Technology.
- 5 years of full life cycle Software Quality Assurance process experience (requirements analysis, decomposition, test case design, prioritization and risk analysis, test execution, metric reporting, etc.).

Skills and Competencies
- Track record of successfully leading multiple, or large scale QA projects, including planning, estimating and prioritizing.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze requirements and create efficiently designed and planned test cases.
- Demonstrated ability to scale testing efforts to support aggressive agile-like project timelines.
- Proven test design, risk analysis, and prioritization skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with project stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and with little direction.
- History of balancing multiple priorities simultaneously with the ability to adapt to the changing needs of the business while meeting deadlines.
- Understanding of multiple IT technical platforms, and application development methodologies.
- Flexibility to work evening and weekend hours for installations, implementations, and upgrades.
- Experience in the designing and implantation of Software Quality Assurance standards and practices preferred.
- Proficient in requirements analysis, design, risk analysis, and prioritization skills on multiple or large sized software development projects preferred.
- Demonstrated experience with system development life cycle methodologies preferred.
- Proficient with Hewlett-Packard Quality Center (HP QC) preferred.
- Performance Testing
- Demonstrated experience in the design and maintenance of performance testing frameworks preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in the execution and maintenance of performance regression test suites and project specific testing preferred.

Major Job Duties and Responsibilities
- For multiple, large, complex, or strategic software projects:
- Perform analysis of business requirements for accuracy, completeness, redundancy, ambiguity, and testability.
- Define testing scope, approach, risks, and assumptions.
- Design, build, and prioritize test cases.
- Create and maintain the testing project schedule.
- Execute testing.
- Report and communicate test status and metrics to project stakeholders.
- Lead efforts in the development, recommendation for change, technological innovation, continuous improvement, and documentation of Software Quality Assurance processes, practices, and frameworks, assuring a high level of system readiness prior to production implementation.
- Identify and recommend changes to status reporting and quality metrics.
- Lead and/or participates in peer reviews of project deliverables.
For multiple, large, complex, or strategic projects:
- Participate in the technical review of project deliverables including requirement specifications, functional designs, technical designs and other project documentation to ensure the testability of requirements.
- Work with development and user community to define and develop testing requirements to validate software solutions were built to specifications.
- Create and maintain project testing schedule to track progress and ensures completion of testing within scheduled timeframes.
- Plan, develop, execute and maintain test cases.
- Conduct System Test and User Acceptance Test.
- Provide regular and timely status updates on testing progress including quality metrics.
- Document and report defects within established process and tracking system.
- Manage defects reporting process for project.
- Coach and mentor QA Analysts and other stakeholders in Software Quality Assurance processes, practices

 

 

With Regards

Murthati Nagender

ALTUS TECHNOLOGIES INC

Phone : 703.310.7053 Ext 1012 | Direct Line : 703.260.6033 | Fax : 703.738.7745

e-mail : murthati.nagender@altustek.com  website : www.altustek.com


G3169