QA Engineer Job Posting

Job Title:	QA Engineer
Company:	emc recruiting
Position Type:	Permanent
Pay Rate:	to $120k with bonus
Skills:	QA, manual test, Unix scripting, Mercury, Sybase, Oracle, financial services
Date Posted:	Oct-23-09

Location: Downtown NYC

Candidate will be responsible for testing proprietary fixed income pricing applications.

Candidates must be capable of reviewing software applications objectively, work with Business Analysts and End-users to understand requirements and Developers to understand the impact of changes to assist debugging and enhancing applications.

The candidate will be required to review functional requirements to asses their impact on the software applications and formulate tests cases from them.

The candidate must be well versed in Software QA concepts, practices and tools and will rely on their extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.

The candidate will be responsible for maintaining the test plans and manual test cases.

Candidates will be responsible for assisting in ongoing general maintenance, technical support and incremental software upgrades for QA tools including the HP Mercury Suite and Serena TeamTrack.

The candidate must be capable of presenting regular progress reports, defect reports and test execution reports.

Technical Requirements:
· Experience with SQL and UNIX is required.
· Experience working with DBMSs including Sybase and Oracle is required
· Experience with tool like the HP Mercury Suite is required. Experience with implementing or administering the tools is preferred.
· Experience with using defect tracking tools is required. Experience with implementing or administering the tools is a preferred.
· Experience in the Financial Industry is required while experience with Fixed Income products preferred.
· Strong analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to move easily between varied tasks.
· Eight years plus of experience in the field of Software Quality Assurance.

Location:	US-NY-New York City
Telecommute:	No (Onsite Position)
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Contact Phone:
Contact Email:	info@emcrecruiting.com
URL:	https://www.smartrecruiters.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/jobmarket.woa/wa/jobMarketHomePage?fp1=49886743

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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