| Title: Back End Quality Assurance
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| Location: New York, NY
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| Job Type: Direct Hire
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| Compensation: per Year
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| Reference Code: 1000183-AQG
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Description: A major client, located in New York City, is seeking a Back End Quality Assurance Professional. The role involves working closely with the business analysts and developers to understand business requirements and technical structure. The ideal candidate should be experienced with various standard test methodologies, able to quickly acquire business and technical knowledge to come up with robust test cases, and work against aggressive timelines. The candidate will be required to define test strategies and test cases covering all aspect of functional, regression, and performance testing, and execute test cases independently or collaborate with other QA members in test execution. This will involve the rapid, programmatic creation and manipulation of test data, test execution and data validation in a primarily Unix/Linux environment.
This candidate will also be expected to design, write and maintain backend automation scripts for testing. The successful candidate will recommend and influence changes to developers to further improve software quality.
Main Duties:
- Work closely with project teams to fully understand the business and system requirements of applications.
- Design and document a specific strategic test plan to cover specified requirements.
- Design and document sufficient test cases to cover specified requirements.
- Design and programmatically create any test data needed to execute the specified test cases.
- Prioritize and oversee the delivery and execution of comprehensive testing suites for all components of project, including functional, regression, and performance testing.
- Compile, analyze, and report test results and test metrics to the project team and EDG Test Services management.
- Communicate effectively and proactively with the business team, developers and EDG Test Services management to resolve issues and follow-up on progress.
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Requirements: Skills Required:
- Computer Science or Engineering (BSc, BEng, etc.) Degree is preferred
- 5+ years of working in or leading a hands-on testing team are required
- Experience in relational databases (Sybase) and Solaris / Linux Operating Systems
- Current working experience creating test harnesses in Perl, Shell, and SQL
- Accomplished practitioner with UNIX command line and various UNIX Shells
- Self-motivated team player with ability to prioritize and multi-task
- Experience in practical application of testing methodology including test case writing, coverage tracking, and requirements interpretation
- Experience in Software Development Life Cycle methodologies
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
Results Oriented Skills - Desired Skills / Qualifications:
- Understanding of XML, SOAP, and RDBMS
- Experience working as part of a global team
- Ability to deliver as part of a dynamic non-traditional development team
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