Testing & Release Project Manager
This position is a Project Management type role for the Testing & Release team.
Responsibilities:
- Review and assist the Testing and Release Management team in developing a comprehensive work plan and timeline to ensure alignment with program timeline.
- Serve as QA single point of contact to project partners
- Form collaborative partnerships with strategic areas
- Control Testing & Release risks/issues (including issue escalation) for assigned projects.
- Ensure project Test Execution Plan is documented and contains all pertinent details.
- Ensure success of Test Execution.
- Hold the team accountable for the quality and timeliness of their work; escalate issues to the leadership team as appropriate.
- Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the testing and deployment (processes, control points, artifacts, and signoffs).
Skills/Experience/Qualifications - Candidate must demonstrate proficiency in the following areas by drawing on practical work experience:
Must Have:
- 5-6 years of IT experience preferred; minimum of 2 years experience planning and managing testing or deployment of enterprise-level implementations.
- Clear and thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and demonstrated understanding of various software development methodologies
- Cross Functional Test Coordination.
- Excellent knowledge of project management disciplines (planning, scheduling, cost control, dependency analysis, critical path theory, risk prioritization, etc.)
- Must possesses and be able to apply advanced knowledge of quality assurance techniques in the design and coordination of QA activities.
- Excellent communication skills - verbal and written.
- Hands-on proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project (SME preferred) or other project planning tool.
Nice to Have:
- PMP a plus but not required.
- Quality Assurance experience with large scale rollout of an enterprise-level implementation.
- Experience working with external vendor software implementations.
Soft/Behavioral Skills - Candidate must be able to provide examples of the following behavioral (or work style) competencies:
- Self directed; able to work productively with limited supervision.
- Sense of urgency; able to prioritize workload to respond effectively to rapidly changing priorities.
- Self motivating, professional, flexible, comfortable with ambiguity in a diverse organizational environment with frequent changes in business requirements.
- Ability to foster buy-in and cooperation through persuasion, influence, and persistence.
- Ability to work effectively independently, and as a member of a team. Able to negotiate with peers and superiors to ensure the work gets done. Ability to easily multitask.
- Well organized and capable of tracking, managing, and resolving issues on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong interpersonal and conflict management skills.
- Effective influencing and negotiating skills.
- Ability to dissect complex issues in order to drive decision making.
- Ability to exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
Automation Engineer
The SQA Automation Engineer will be responsible for the methodology, analysis, design, architecture, and development of functional/regression automated testing solutions using HP/Mercury tools and technologies focused on Quality Center (QC). QC includes QuickTest Professional (QTP), TestDirector, and Business Process Testing (BPT) which is an important part of QTP.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze end user testing requirements
- Design and Architect modular and reusable automated testing solutions that satisfy testing requirements.
- Develop functional/regression automated testing solutions using QTP/BPT, traditional QTP, and/or data driven techniques.
- Develop custom function/sub-routine libraries to support automated testing solutions.
- Direct and assist junior automation developers in their work.
- Train/mentor junior automation developers and test automation end users.
- Develop/enhance and document automated testing methodology.
- Design a solid automation framework where test scripts are reusable and easily maintained.
- Perform identification and implementation of the automation framework, environment, approach, and methodologies which will be used for automated testing.
- Design, implement and maintain test strategies, test plans and test scripts for functional, stress and load of company's software applications using Mercury Interactive test products.
- Develop detailed documentation to support the automation effort.
- Execute test script, report detailed defects description through defect tracking tool.
- Continually review and improve testing process and implementation.
- Assist in estimating testing efforts and providing status updates
This position is also subject to being "on call" for emergency situations requiring immediate resolution.
Must Have:
- 3 years QuickTest Pro automation experience.
- 2 years Business Process Testing automation development including business and scripted components.
- 5 years VBScript or equivalent programming.
- 1 year using Quality Center and/or Quality Center project/site administration.
- Understanding of testing and development life cycle methodologies.
- Experience with the following tools Mercury Quality Center (TestDirector, QuickTest Pro, Business Process Testing)
Nice to Have:
- Experience/Certification: QuickTest Pro and Quality Center Certified Product Consultant (CPC).
- Experience with Mercury Performance Center (LoadRunner)