QA Technician Lead

Job ID: 9100Position Title: QA Technician LeadWorking Location: Illinois-DeerfieldEmployment Status: Full-Time RegularRequired Experience: 3 yearsRequired Education: Bachelors DegreeJob Description:Walgreens is the nation’s largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2007 sales of $53.8 billion. The company operates over 6,000 stores in 49 states and Puerto Rico, including 77 Happy Harry’s stores in Delaware and surrounding states.With 500 store openings per year, Walgreens will operate over 7,000 stores by 2010. Walgreens is expanding its patient-first health care services beyond traditional pharmacy through Walgreens Health Services, its managed care division, and Take Care Health Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary that manages convenient care clinics inside drugstores. Walgreens Health Services assists pharmacy patients and prescription drug and medical plans through Walgreens Health Initiatives, Inc. (a pharmacy benefits manager), Walgreens Mail Service Inc., Walgreens Home Care Inc., and Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy LLC. Ranked 2nd among food and drug retailers on Fortune's "Most Admired Companies in America" list. We offer challenging and rewarding opportunities in a friendly, diverse, inclusive and respectful environment, with excellent benefits including:• Company-matched profit sharing contributions• Stock discount purchase program• Employee discount plan • Train shuttle service• On-site childcare • Flex-pay• Medical/Dental planAs the nation's leading pharmacy, we seek professional individuals to fill key positions at Walgreens, ensuring our leadership and taking us to even higher levels of growth, profitability, innovation and customer service. Walgreens is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes individuals of diverse talents and backgrounds. Walgreens promotes and supports a drug-free and smoke-free workplace. Essential Skills:- Lead the testing of complex system enhancements, addressing project risk, and mentoring others to achieve success. - Participate in the analysis of business problems and the development of recommended solutions, both technical and procedural.• Maintains an advanced level of knowledge and proficiency of designated systems and quality assurance processes and controls.• Maintain awareness of identified defects; provides updates on the status of problem resolutions.• Approves the test results of new and /or existing systems, enhancements, and patches to ensure proper operation.• Aids in the communication of Quality Assurance methodologies.• Is an active participant in the mitigation, escalation and communication of project risk and issues. • Accountable for the timely delivery and quality of complex technical and systems products and for user satisfaction within the scope of Quality Assurance.• Represents Quality Assurance principles in project review meetings.Qualifications:- BA or BS degree in Business, Healthcare, or Information Systems is required. - Three years in Quality Assurance and/or business analysis required. - Understanding of testing concepts and how testing fits with the overall project lifecycle- Ability to transform business and technical level needs into specific test scenarios- Planning and analytical skills- Ability to support root cause analysis of defectsTechnical skills such as UNIX, Oracle, Java, and Visual Basic, are desired. Familiarity with Visio is desired."Java, Oracle, Unix Company: Walgreens Location: Deerfield, IL 60015 Status: Full Time, Employee Job Category: IT/Software Development Career Level: Entry Level Education Level: Bachelor's Degree Company: Walgreens Reference Code: PCK347-39401