NYC Gov REQ: Looking for QA Functional Tester at Brooklyn, NY for 5+ Months - In- Person Interview is required - Reply back to anthony at kanisol dot com

Functional Job Title: QA Functional Tester

Work Location: Brooklyn, NY

Scheduled Work Hours: 9:00a.m. – 6:00p.m.  Monday through Friday (including 1 hour for lunch), 40 work hours per week, possible evenings and/or weekends (excluding City holidays).

Assignment Start: Approximately Projected Start Date – March 13, 2014

Duration: 5+ Months

Please Note: Client is look for consultants who have worked for NYC Gov Project in the Past.

In- Person Interview is required for this position

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

IMPORTANT NOTE: CANDIDATE(S)  INTERESTED FOR THIS REQUIREMENT ARE  EXPECTED  TO  BE  AVAILABLE  FOR  THEIR  INTERVIEWS  FOR  A  PERIOD OF FEBRUARY 21, 2014 THROUGH FEBRUARY 28, 2014.

SCOPE OF SERVICES:

Job Description:       

QA Tester will have the following responsibilities

•        Prepare and execute functional and regression testing

•        Participate in performance testing

•        Work with project management team, technical team and business unit in the requirements gathering process to determine high level designs

•        Ensure that assigned applications are appropriately quality assurance tested

•        Communicate and interact with different project teams

•        Attend project’s team meetings and some design meetings

•        Review design project documents and provide QA comments and sign off

•        Define test strategy based on the analysis of design document and requirements

•        Create and execute test cases, log and assign defects and keep track of the defect status

•        Load and maintain requirements and test cases in Quality Center

•        Execute and track testing process using Quality Center

•        Work with developers to resolve defects

•        Report the results to the management and team lead in timely matter

•        Prepare and execute functional testing activities for the application

•        Participate in defining strategy for the regression test automation

•        Participate in the defining performance test entry/exit criteria

•        Participate in designing performance test scripts using LoadRunner

•        Assist the support team in deployment

•        Other QA related tasks in the SDLC

•        Maintain up to date documentation in project’s SharePoint folders

•        Create and/or contribute in the design of the following deliverables:

•        Test Strategy & test plan

•        Detailed Test Cases

•        Test Scripts

•        Traceability matrix

•        Test estimates

•        Progress report for test execution

•        Defect report

Mandatory Skill/Expertise

•        At least 4 years of experience in Quality Assurance testing

•        Strong verbal skills to communicate with non-technical resources.

•        Strong issue resolution and investigation skills

•        Ability to articulate and document the steps taken to resolve an issue

•        Ability to see tasks through to completion with minimal guidance

•        Experience in performing end-to-end test process for complex enterprise solutions

•        Experience in analyzing business requirements and covering them with test cases

•        Experience with specifics of functional and compatibility testing of browser based UI

•        Understanding of the concept of browser / HTML based UI and the need of compatibility testing

•        Understanding of a variety of programming languages, architectures, and standards like, J2EE-Java, .NET, n-tier architecture, service oriented architecture (SOA)

•        Understanding of relational databases concept, ability to design SQL query

•        Ability to use SQL queries for QA tasks

•        Ability to create and execute SQL queries in any of the popular GUI tools like TOAD, sql developer, etc.

Desirable Skill/Expertise

•        Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Mathematics

•        Understanding of HTML language

•        Understanding of XML language concept and XML file format

•        Experience with writing scripts to create and manipulate test data using any of the popular scripting languages like VBScript, VBA (Excel or MS Access), JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, Groovy, C/C++, etc

•        Experience with recording/designing/executing automated scrip using QTP

•        Understanding of ORACLE database system architecture and specifics

•        Experience with recording, adjusting and troubleshooting performance test scripts using LoadRunner scripting correlation techniques

•        Knowledge of NYC Government culture

•        Experience with test automation concepts and tools like QTP, RFT, Selenium