Quality Assurance Lead needed to build testing approach for Data Warehouse project!

Our client is hiring new Information Technology professionals into their Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) development effort. Members of this team consist of individuals who take initiative and demonstrate resourcefulness, innovation, urgency, and passion. We have a need for a Quality Assurance Lead Engineer who enjoys working in a close team environment and looks for creative and better ways to be successful.

The EDW Quality Assurance Lead Engineer must be a self-starter in initiating project and process improvements and may take part in researching best practices, new tools and technology, and implementing automated test processes across the warehouse. Candidate should have excellent written and oral communication skills and work well with the technical and business communities to understand and deliver projects that increase the value of the Client’s assets.

Incumbent will be responsible for supporting projects with specific hands-on QA testing as well as developing our long term QA strategy for our data warehouse. The candidate should have 4-5 years related experience in data warehousing testing, be familiar with writing and evaluating complex SQL, have a strong understanding of application development lifecycles, and have a good understanding of data warehouse concepts and techniques. The Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for identifying software defects and validating problem resolution through the use of systematic tests to develop, apply and maintain quality standards for EDW products.

Accountabilities & Duties:

- Ability to lead and demonstrate solid testing methodologies and team members

- Develops acceptance criteria to address needs of the delivery project team and the customer to ensure successful implementation.

- Analyzes and writes test standards and procedures. Develops and executes software master test plans and test scripts.

- Provides technical consultation on automation methods, tools and processes.

- Maintains documentation of test results to assist in debugging and modification of EDW and associated applications.

- Analyzes and reports test results to ensure quality of existing data/functionality for EDW.

- Works with programmers and business analysts in the development and implementation of system test plans and unit test scripts for software testing.

- Responsible for consolidation of test results, procedures.

Specific Roles & Responsibilities:

• Map test cases to application, technical or functional based requirements

• Summarize test pass execution against builds or releases

• Attend any project meetings and discuss findings during testing

• Write detailed test cases with reusability as a goal for the test case

• Execute test cases as determined by the QA lead or by the project team

• Assist in maintaining test case libraries

• Assist in post production implementation testing during company maintenance windows

• Training fellow QA staff members on application changes

• Attend QA staff meetings

• Lead a team of Testers and own overall quality of a feature set.

• Work with other Test Engineers to insure overall test coverage.

• Work with developers/program manager to learn a feature’s requirements.

• Review code to develop tests.

• Act as the primary technical resource for the Test team.

• Mentor junior members of the Test team.

• Develop and maintain test plans based on requirements, specifications, documentation, and white board sessions.

 

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS:

-Excellent problem solving skills, logical process thinking and end-to-end system concepts.

-Knowledge of industry test standards and automated tools and methods that facilitate testing of software, load, performance, stress and capacity.

-Knowledge of data warehousing and complex SQL.

-Ability to delegate work to less experienced team members; proven leadership ability.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE:

- Use of complex SQL using RDBMS functions.

- Good knowledge of RDBMS Explain to analyze and improve query performance.

- Experience with business intelligence tools such as Cognos, Business Objects and Brio.

Education:

-- BS or BA, desirable.

If you are interested in being considered for this opportunity, please forward your resume and indicate job title. Presently our client is only accepting U.S. citizens and permanent residents. You must pass a criminal background check, credit check, security check, and drug test before entering the assignment.

We would like to thank everyone who submits their resume for this position. Due to the volume of resumes that we receive, only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. r2 Technologies offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits, is an equal opportunity employer, and promotes a smoke-free and drug-free workplace.