Thursday, May 31, 2012

[Outsource:62117] Senior Functional Manual Tester/ Cincinnati, OH/ 6 Months+

Title: Functional Manual Senior Tester

Location: Cincinnati, OH

Length: 6 Months+

 

 

The tester supports quality assurance programs and processes in alignment with QA strategy.  

The tester is responsible for providing feedback on artifacts developed during requirements and analysis phase within client projects; authoring test plans and test cases; and performing test execution for both project and support related activities.

 

Essential Job Functions:

1.             Work within various test methodologies such as agile and/or waterfall

2.             Create QA Task List in order to meet objectives and deadlines

3.             Participate in Requirement & Design Doc review session; evaluate requirements & design docs from a quality testability standpoint

4.             Create Detailed Test Cases for full requirement coverage/traceability

5.             Execute Test Cases to validation correct functionality of application

6.             Manage test coverage based on risk analysis

7.             Use SQL for back-end database validation

8.             Document defects and evaluate priority of defect based on overall application functionality

9.             Coordinate Test Case Reviews with stakeholders are being held as appropriate.

10.          Perform various types of testing including white box, black box, integration, back-end DB validation, system testing as needed

11.          Adhere to requirement review, defect writing & test case writing guidelines

12.          Coordinate testing efforts between 3rd party testing team.

13.          Keep Lead Tester informed of current state of quality and test progress

14.          Ensure completion of all deliverables within schedule, budget and quality constraints.

15.          Participate in Root Cause Analysis sessions

16.          Ensure that projects follow prescribed software development life cycle standards.

17.          Develop and maintain good relationships with project team.

18.          Identify obstacles and roadblocks; and offer suggestions to work around obstacles

 

 

Requirements:

The ideal candidates should possess:  Bachelor's degree in IS or related equivalent work experience in an Information Systems position and 3-5 years of experience in job duties.  Experience in discipline of functional testing.  Understanding of regression testing techniques

 

Skills Description:              

 

Experienced with SQL – back-end DB validation (SQL Scripting)              

Understanding of steps within test process under both waterfall and agile        

Understands focus of various testing types:  black / white box, unit, integration, system, user acceptance, etc.        

Experienced in requirement & design doc reviews – ability to evaluate requirements & design docs from a quality testability standpoint               

Ability to work with BA & Development to clarify requirements and design

ability to write defects and evaluate priority of the defect based on overall application functionality        

Understands relationship of Requirements to testing               

Ability to effectively and frequently interact with Business Analysts, Technical Leads, and Architects         

Able to analyze and specify test environment requirements    

Understands release management procedures           

Manages testing effort to typical project constraints:  budget, schedule, environment, etc.             

Ability to work towards and meet deadlines – good self time management skills               

Able to establish and drive requirements testability and traceability   

Articulates gaps found in requirements and escalates associated risks              

Conducts / facilitates / drives quality risk analyses 

Ability to estimate work based on quality risk            

Experience documenting detailed test plans 3+

Provides relevant QA feedback to software design     

Strong test case modeling / design experience            

Effective at verbally validating planned test scenarios with technical and business stakeholders

Synchronizes test design activities with development design activities

Ability to prioritize test case creation based on risk

Ability to manage test case coverage based on risk   

Ability to coordinate testing efforts between 3rd party testing party     

Able to identify critical test artifacts from repository for unique purposes (i.e., smoke test, regression, etc)              

Strong communication skills           

Drives test execution:  prioritization, communication, pacing

Understands / communicates relationship between test execution and software build deployments           

Coordinate / communicate software build deployments to test environment, including planning, prioritization, content, and results

Able to prioritize testing by relative risk       

Able to establish regression testing target areas based on previous results and risk       

Able to track and articulate defect trend data             

Familiarity with commercial defect tracking tools     

Understanding of standard defect life-cycle models  

Ability to articulate software quality metrics concepts, value, purpose, processes, etc    

Drive / facilitates defect triage and resolution activities         

Can routinely articulate test progress succinctly in terms of quality, progress, risks, schedule, budget, issues, actions, etc  

Drives quality risk identification with project manager           

Drives quality issues resolution     

Conducts root-cause analyses on discovered defects and articulates results     

Contribute to decision making around pilot and production readiness

Articulate final test results reporting            

Conducts root-cause analyses on discovered defects and articulates results     

Establish test process improvements from defect analysis      

               

 

 

 

Thanks & Regards,

 

Ramesh Kumar

Global Associates Inc/ VCarve Inc

|| 7106 Corporate Way || Dayton, OH 45459 ||

||Phone:  937-877-5870 || Fax: 800-304-9160 ||

ramesh@gassociates.com or ramesh@vcarve.com || www.gassociates.com||


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