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Role: Functional and Automation QA Tester
Locations: Hopewell NJ/Jersey City/ Jacksonville FL (Remote till office open)
Duration: 12 + months
Required Skills
- Requires a minimum of 10 years testing experience in the Financial Services (Insurance domain )and candidate must have worked on an Agile team for a minimum of 3 years.
- Understanding of the software development process and QA life cycle (including test preparation, data conditioning, test case design, execution, defect tracking, and status reporting).
- The team member is required to develop test strategies, test plans and execute manual/automation test cases/scripts (this includes functional and regression scripts), report/track defects using HP ALM.
- 10-12 years’ minimum experience on QA Functional & Automation testing background with strong analytical skills, ability to decompose requirements into testable cases covering positive, negative, variety of data scenarios
- 10-12 years of Experience in testing backend only services, integrations with upstream / downstream systems – Development / automation coding expertise a plus with demonstration of technical skills.
- Exposure to Web service testing. This includes strong understanding of XML schema, tools that support testing web service interface, JSON – SME SQL skills including complex query writing
- Ability to review schema to gain understanding of DB structure, ability to use variety of SQL tools to accomplish required testing.
- Expertise with Webservices Testing using SOATest (Parasoft) & SOAPUI.
- Exposure in ETL testing projects and Datastage.
- Expertise with test management tools such as HP ALM/Quality Center/JIRA
- Expertise in ADA Testing tools
- Automation skills required using automation tools beyond recording features, Selenium potential if strong in other skillsets
- Ability to coordinate testing between various downstream testing teams.
- Team focused behavior and an ability to communicate issues in a timely and appropriate manner.
- Able to work independently and make decisions that will move the work forward despite challenges.
In Addition to above nice to have :
- Possess a broad understanding of multiple technologies, including Mainframe, DB2, IMS, COBOL, Master Data Management, Analytics, ETL, UNIX shell scripting.
- Has an understanding of large Batch processing, knowledge of Quality Assurance methodologies,
- Minimum 10 years of experience in COBOL, CICS, DB2 IBM OS/JCL (MVS), Testing & Debugging.
- Knowledge of change management tools like ENDEVOR.
Desired Skills
- Prior technology experience Banking/Financial/Insurance industry background is a must.
- Prior Experience in Managing offshore Team members
- Prior experience in automation testing using Parasoft SOAtest & Selenium
- Prior experience working with an Agile based development team
- Prior experience of working with globally distributed teams
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