Job Description

Skills / Experience:
Performing QA functions including participation in project team meetings to understand project requirements, preparing test plans, conducting QA testing and evaluating results, mitigating any defects found and gathering appropriate evidence for upload into systems.
Strong communication skills to present metric data to project teams and report out work activities during scrum meetings.


Required:
5+ years' experience with Quality Assurance and Quality Control
3+ years' of test coordination, manual, automation and performance testing tools (HP Suite of tools and/or Microsoft Test Manager/Team Foundation Server)
Must have knowledge of testing techniques to cover all possible corner cases for testing, verification and validation techniques.
Hands on experience on Test management tool HP Quality Center
Proven knowledge of quality assurance and software testing methodologies SDLC and STLC in waterfall and agile
Strong written and verbal communication must be able to clearly articulate himself/herself and be able to effectively communicate with management and customers
Must be a team player, quick responsiveness, contributor, coordinator, cooperative, understanding, polite and adaptive to accept changes in a complex changing environment
Must be willing to accept direction from seniors, colleagues and management


Desired but not mandatory:
Experience in Energy or Financial industry is a plus.


Role and Responsibilities:
Assist with detailed test strategy to support both waterfall and an iterative approach (Agile/Scrum) to software development and deployment
Assist with test life cycle management and coordination
Assist with the writing of detailed test plans and scripts both manual and automated
Verify / review software and business requirements
Have responsibilities in the process of traceability of requirements through to functional tests and defect lists
Manual and Automated Test execution and daily status reporting
Communicate and Track any quality risks, gaps or issues
Estimate the test effort by applying appropriate estimation techniques
Candidate must have prior experience and expertise in being able to create, publish and communicate test metrics/reports.
Be detail oriented, have excellent writing & verbal communication skills and possess client facing skills.


Technical Knowledge/Skills:
Experience with HP Quality Center/ALM and Team Foundation Server - Must
Experience with functional test automation tools: HP QTP and Selenium - Desired
Experience with agile methodologies - Must
Experience working in a Windows - Must
Experience testing web and client server based applications - Must
Experience in Oracle Database concepts and testing using SQL or other database platforms - Must
Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel Must

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