Job Type: Contract (6 months +)
Rate: Negotiable
Description: Client has established an internal test consulting team. This team, the Management Systems Group Test Center (MTC), provides a “pool” of test analysts who are deployed to development projects within the IT area. MTC is currently looking for test analysts who have experience on a variety of technology platforms (web, client-server, mainframe, SAP), development methodologies (waterfall, iterative, agile programming), and business domains (finance, logistics, telecomm, supply chain, distribution, transportation, marketing and sales) in a fluid, dynamic environment.
The successful candidate, working with a project team leader, will be involved in test planning and preparation, generating test cases and scripts, reporting upon and coordinating test activities. They will also be responsible for execution of test scripts, recording results in a defect tracking tool, providing general mentoring on sound testing practices.
The candidate must be a team player and work well with other IT professionals in a project environment. The candidate should possess good communications skills and be able to deal with customers of the Information Technology department within the business.
Required Skills:
• Four or more years of IT experience.
• Two solid years experience as a test analyst
• Solid experience developing test plans/strategies, test cases, and test scripts.
• Experience leading a team and tracking their progress
• Solid experience testing as part of a testing team
• Solid experience working as the sole test analyst on fluid, dynamic projects
• Experience working more than one project at a time.
• Experience planning and estimating testing duration and effort
• Experience as a Business Analyst
• Demonstrated experience working with projects lasting longer than six months
• Demonstrated experience working with projects lasting less than two weeks
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Strong team orientation.
• Comfortable using standard procedures and methodology.
• Writing skills for technical and non-technical documents.
• Computer Science or related college degree preferred.
• Recent solid testing experience in a Windows/Web-enabled environment
• Recent solid testing experience in client-server “rich client” applications
• Possess a thorough understanding of development and testing methodologies
• Experience testing in an iterative development environment
• Experience using the test tools Mercury and/or Rational testing tools for test management, requirements traceability, defect tracking
• Demonstrated ability to write SQL queries
• Experience with Oracle, SQL-Server, Access
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and also Visio and Project
Desired Skills:
• CSTE and/or CQA certifications preferred
• Experience testing outsourced development
• Experience writing use cases (RUP experience preferred)
• Background in applications development
• Knowledge of tools for creating test data
• Experience testing in the SAP environment
• Experience writing unit test plans
• Experience with JTEST and/or JUNIT
• Experience with load and stress testing
• Experience with Mercury WinRunner, Mercury QTP 6.5, Rational ROBOT, RadView
• Experience using TOAD for querying Oracle databases
• Experience using XML
• Experience in WebSphere/JAVA runtime environments
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