QA Analyst Job Posting



Job Title: QA Analyst - JD Edwards GL
Company: PlanIT Search
Position Type: Permanent
Pay Rate: Based on Experience
Date Posted: Oct-20-09

Job Title: QA Analyst

Job Description:
Department: IP Compensation & Corporate Systems

This position reports to: Team Leader, IP Compensation & Corporate Systems

Salary range: 41K -- 57K

Location: Yonge/Sheppard

Summary:
Provide Quality Assurance support for General Ledger system (Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne version 8.9) and for other Financial applications (including Fiserv's Recon+) where needed. Plan, execute and document test efforts for projects, system change requests, production fixes.


Primary Responsibilities:
• Creating complete and accurate testing documentation, including test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, and risk assessments. Ensuring that testing stages follow established QA methodology

• Facilitating test plan walkthroughs and test cases review sessions with various stakeholders. Reviewing test results with the project team
• Creating testing analysis summaries to assist with project decision making
• Providing consistent and effective production support to assigned business partners, with a focus on customer service
• Secondary duties may include business and systems analysis


Qualifications:
• Comprehensive understanding of General Ledger applications from user perspective, developed through at least 1 year's experience working with a General Ledger, preferably in a Quality Assurance role. JD Edwards experience is preferred

• Strong skills in both testing and developing test cases. Experience planning and coordinating test efforts preferred. Testing certification (e.g. CSQA, CSTE) or other formal education in IT an asset
• Understanding of Finance functions, demonstrated through college degree or higher in Finance, progression towards CGA / CMA / CA, or equivalent experience working in or supporting a Finance area
• Ability to create clear documentation for audit purposes
• Knowledge of financial products, gained through experience in the financial service industry or through industry certifications such as IFIC and CSC
• Conscientious, detail-focused, learns quickly and enjoys sharing knowledge
• Experience with portfolio management or trading systems (particularly Charles River) would be considered an asset


Competencies:
•Demonstrate through actions and behaviours, a full understanding of “service excellence”.
•Demonstrate a keen ability to identify, understand and respond to changing conditions.
•Demonstrate creative ways to meet challenges, goals and objectives with enthusiasm, drive and initiative.
•Build and sustain a safe environment where open dialogue and full participation is encouraged and expected.
•Demonstrate the ability to develop effective partnerships, focus on common goals and implement integrated solutions.
•Demonstrate the ability to help other people make the most of their abilities and recognize their full potential.
•Practice open and honest communication and build an environment where full participation is the norm.
•Strive to meet the highest standard of personal and professional behaviour by demonstrating strength of character that exceeds even the most rigorous of tests.
•Demonstrate creativity, resourcefulness and critical thinking to push past a problem and on to a well thought out solution.

Location: Canada-ON-Toronto
Telecommute: No (Onsite Position)
Contact Name: Geoff Johnson
Contact Phone: 416-987-2361
Contact Email: geoff_johnson@rogers.com



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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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