Complete Description:  One resource with 7 + years of experience in the following: 

Overall Responsibilities

• Requires thorough technical, analytical and operational knowledge within the QA area of accountability with specific responsibilities for design, development and implementation of test strategies.

• Requires extensive technical experience: ability to read architectural diagrams, design review and system documentation, review end-to-end workflows (technical/business), participate in code reviews and utilize the information to create quality solutions.

• Responsible for performing and leading the integration, system, and regression testing of software for both manual and automated test execution. 

• Responsible for sprint deliverables and implementing Test Driven Development each sprint to achieve the sprint testing goals. 

Specific Responsibilities

• Interact with the product delivery team; participate in product requirement/design reviews to provide input on completeness of functional requirements, product designs, and schedules

• Identify interdependencies, ambiguities or omissions, and make suggestions to improve requirements and ensure usability/testability

• Review software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance, or completeness, with focus to mitigate risks

• Review test schedules in accordance with project scope and delivery expectations

• Participate in designing test strategies, scenarios, scripts, and/or procedures to determine product quality or release readiness

• Develop testing scenarios/cases to address areas of database, web interface, web services, software code and programs written, regression testing, usability and develop automated scripts

• Perform Test Execution; collaborate with other testers during test execution

• Perform initial debugging procedures by reviewing code pieces to determine breakdown source; coordinate activities with overall development team, monitoring and reporting on problem resolution

• Adhere to defect tracking process; document software defects, monitor the progress in a timely manner, escalate aging and priority defects

• Document test procedures to ensure repeatability and compliance with standards

• Collect and report test results through various metrics reporting tools and communicating to key stakeholders on a regular basis.

• Manage Test Driven Development coordinating work with development team for timely delivery for testing for each sprint.

• Assess readiness and deviation of project performance based on risks and the test results.

• Provides the department with in-depth system knowledge, product and service related expertise and excellent analytical skills

• Identify areas for Test Automation and provide design prototypes for the automation suite based on tool specified above. 

• Ability to extend prototypes and implement the automation suite across all test environments

• Ability to strategize and implement test automation on the database layer of the application

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7 years experience performing Quality Assurance functions with demonstrated experience in Software Development Lifecycle.

• Ability to share and communicate ideas both verbally and in writing to staff, business customers, managers, and technical resources in clear concise language that is appropriate to the target audience

• Experience working in ambiguous situations, dealing with IT issues and coming up with effective solutions to ensure project deliverables on time and within budget.

• Experience with a variety of test tools and software testing practices, including developing, implementing, maintaining and managing manual/automated testing systems and environments

• Experience assessing risk for determining appropriate levels of testing

• Strong collaboration, negotiation and influencing skills

• Ability to handle multiple large projects simultaneously for executing test cases and reporting results.

• Ability to work independently and/or as part of a team.

• Work experience using automated testing tools and using them to develop regression suites.

• Experience in SQL, ORACLE (preferred),.NET, XML, HTML, MS Access, Windows, UNIX shell scripting.

NOTE: This position requires extensive coding abilities to develop automation suites for various applications under test. The candidate would have a mix of 25% of responsibilities specified above in areas of QA and testing and the rest 75% being building and deploying automation suites.