Sr. QA Automation Engineer Job Posting

Job Title:	Sr QA Automation Engineer
Company:	Open Systems Technologies
Position Type:	Contract
Pay Rate:	$60/hr
Date Posted:	Sep-23-09

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

The application is being developed using proven technologies, including PL/SQL, ORACLE, Ab-Initio and Java in complex combinations following established and proven methodologies and practices for the development.

About the Team:
The Performance and System Test team has 4 broad functions:
1. System Test: Responsible for planning, designing and execution and validation of results for System Test.
2. Performance Test: Responsible for planning, designing and execution and validation of results for Performance Test.
3. Production Support: Responsible for supporting the application in production, ensuring operational processes and procedures are followed.
4. Infrastructure: Responsible for identifying and managing the infrastructure needs of the project.

About the position:
The engineer will be required to lead a team of 4-6 engineers to automate the existing functional test cases. The test cases are developed for functional components implemented as batch processes (both inbound and outbound file processing), canned crystal reports and web user interfaces.

Responsibilities:
? Design the frameworks to automate existing test cases using Quality Center/ QTP.
? Build, customize and configure tools for automating execution and verification of results for various test efforts.
? Work with development, Business, QA, and other Automation engineers to determine root cause of batch job execution problems while automating test cases.
? Provide design documentation; participate in technical review for the test automation projects.
? Must have excellent problem solving skills and be capable of breaking down complex situations to discover and resolve root causes, this applies to both technical issues and process issues.
? Provide metrics and project planning updates for the testing effort.

Qualifications:
Must-Have Skills:
? Experience of at least 10 years in QA primarily related to test automation.
? At least 5 years of hands on experience in Quality Center and QTP especially related to batch processing systems
? Atleast 5 years of hands on experience with VBScript
? 5 years of Unix scripting
? 3 years of PL/SQL and Oracle experience.
? Familiarity with mortgage business
? Excellent verbal communications and teaming skills.
? Experience of technically leading teams of 4-6 people

Nice to Have Skills:
? Experience in test planning, test cases and execution is a big plus
? Autosys experience is a big plus

Location:	US-VA-Herndon
Telecommute:	No (Onsite Position)
Contact Name:	Laura Mitchell
Contact Phone:
Contact Email:	lmitchell@opensystemstech.com

Requirement Based Functional Testing

Function (Integration) test is usually the first test phase that a test organization is responsible for during any given release. Requirements based Function Test is one approach to Function (Integration) test - it is a powerful and effective testing approach, which will significantly reduce the number of undetected defects (faults) being released into production. The premise is that a well-formulated set of functional requirements give the Test Designers (see .Testing and The Role of a Test Designer Tester.) a definitive bases for test case design.

What is Function Test?

"The objective of function test is to measure the quality of the functional (business) components of the system". Tests verify that the system behaves correctly from the user / business perspective and functions according to the requirements, models, storyboards, or any other design paradigm used to specify the application. The function test must determine if each component or business event: performs in accordance to the specifications, responds correctly to all conditions that may be presented by incoming events / data, moves data correctly from one business event to the next (including data stores), and that business events are initiated in the order required to meet the business objectives of the system.

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