Candidate Must Be Local Candidate must be willing to work on-site 20% 505 Hudson Street Hartford, CT Candidate must be local and is defined as residing within a two hour drive of Hartford CT. Candidate must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident Automation QA Engineer, the following services are required:
· Reviews all system requirements, test scripts, test scenarios to create appropriate testing workflow. Ensures that this set of high-level requirements is consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined.
· Reviews software components and collaborates with Development group, Product Owners, System Teams, and Operations to ensure best overall testing strategies, best practices and techniques for automated testing.
· Interfaces with the design and implementation teams, so that any problems arising during QA can be resolved in accordance with the fundamental design concepts, and user needs and constraints.
· Assist in all testing processes involving the migration and integration of new and legacy technologies.
· Follows the testing standards and strategies and uses them correctly.
· Interface with the user(s) and sponsor(s) and all other stakeholders to determine their (evolving) needs.
· Follows the set standards for the automated testing software, policies, and execution.
· Generates products such as automated functional tests, regression tests, load tests, and test scenario around ETL and data conversion.
· Responsible for creating automated test case scenarios for Agile Delivery Team to meet Acceptance Criteria
· Reviews and understands the design and development of the database architecture including relational data structures, data marts, data dictionaries and logical and physical data models.
· Develop and maintain efficient, well documented, test scripts custom to the integration of data and processes from the legacy systems to the new applications and technologies.
· Design, develop and implement ETL testing scripts that are consistent with the solutions for data ingestion, cleansing, business rules execution and Data Distribution.
· Perform tests and validate data flows and ETL processes according to business requirements.
· Ability to create complex SQL joins to test data migration requirements.
· Expertise in querying and testing databases such as SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle.
· Designing test scripts that validate the determined data conversion strategy from legacy to new platforms.
· Involvement in all stages like Requirements gathering, Data mapping, Data extraction, Data loading, Data testing, documentation, performance optimization and maintenance.
· Excellent communication, presentation, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
· Demonstrated ability to deliver business and technical value.
· Must be very organized, pro-active and self-directed. Must be able to perform with minimal supervision.
· Must have very strong abstract thinking and problem-solving skills.
· Must have very good verbal and written communication skills.
Requirements 5+ years Experience with Automated Testing Frameworks, Test Strategies and Test Beds.
· 5+ years Experience with HP QC, UFT, Stress Stimulus, Azure Dev Ops
· 5+ years Experience Microsoft SharePoint
· 5+ years Experience with Agile Methodologies
· 5+ years Experience with Software Testing Methodologies
· Knowledge of Testing Tools, Testing Frameworks, Continuous Integration Methodologies
· Knowledge of Web Application Testing, Distributed System Testing, Performance Testing, Regression Testing, Database Testing, Mobile Testing, Security Testing, Accessibility Testing, Web Service Testing.
· Knowledge of Data Modeling and Database Design
· Thorough understanding of standard QA best practices in an Agile environment including authoring test plans and test cases, executing tests and tracking issues to closure
· Experience in Test Driven Development and testing tools and techniques.
· Testing experience with Web Services (REST, SOAP, WCF) and tools such as SOAPUI and SOAP Sonar.
4. ADMINISTRATIVE CONSIDERATIONS Candidate must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
