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Position Purpose:
This position requires Quality Assurance or Software Development background, good technical and problem-solving skills, a demonstrated ability to work both independently and as a team player in a fast-paced environment, and expertise in testing large scale databases.
Key Responsibilities / Duties:
- Provide accurate estimates, quality testing, and post-release sanity checks of DW releases
- Accept responsibility for test planning and management of delegated areas of functionality
- Perform and/or help developers perform impact analysis for upcoming projects and clarify incomplete requirements
- Evaluate available project information to be able to identify and focus efforts on high-risk areas of functionality
- Work with all members of the extended DW team to ensure timely delivery of quality code
- Take initiative in reproducing production issues in QA environments and vice versa with the objective of separating data problems from functionality problems
- Continuously strive to expand test coverage within the DW
- Monitor and help maintain testing and development quality standards
- Contribute original thinking to QA approach and process improvement by evaluating current processes and making recommendations for desirable changes
- Help developers with performance testing, query tuning, and generating test data when required
- Analyse undocumented code-base areas with the goal of producing documentation and test scenarios
- Support development team in test-driven development activities
- Validate and verify all unit tests submitted by developers
- Work with QA engineers from product teams when integration testing is required
- Handle tight deadlines, rapidly changing requirements, and short project lifecycles
- Evaluate possible tools that can be utilised to enhance the data warehouse QA processes
- Contribute to revising and maintaining of the DW regression test pack following all releases
Experience, Skills, and Qualifications Required:
- Solid knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL and extensive Oracle 9i/10g experience
- Extensive experience of testing large-scale OLTP systems and/or data warehouses
- Strong analytical and diagnostic skills
- Knowledge of data warehousing-related concepts (including replication, star schema design, OLAP)
- Proficiency in test plan and test case generation and execution, as well as in black/white box testing techniques
- Fundamental understanding of test-driven development concepts
- Ability to prioritise multiple concurrent tasks effectively and efficiently, as well as to manage own time accordingly
- Solid understanding of source control systems (preferably Perforce)
- Extensive experience working with defect- and request-tracking software
- Understanding of all phases of SDLC, as well as of various software testing and development methodologies
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to work well with both technical and non-technical members of other teams
- Proven ability to thrive both as a team player and as an individual contributor
- Understanding of application interactions in a single-environment setup
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
- Working knowledge of non-‘point-and-click’ QA automation tools highly desirable
Betfair is a global online betting and gaming company operating a number of world-leading products offered through multiple channels and across several continents. Our continued business success and growth demand a lot from our technology, including transaction volumes that surpass many of the world’s leading financial institutions.
Betfair is major investor in new technology and employs over 400 engineers to produce one of the fastest and most resilient betting platforms available on the internet. Across all its products, Betfair processes more than 5 million transactions on an average day - more than all the European stock exchanges combined - and settlement is immediate. 99.9 per cent of transactions are completed in less than one second.
The Development Center in Cluj-Napoca, Romania is currently organized into 5 large technical teams plus the operational side of the business. The technologies we use are Java, .Net, Oracle, agile project management methodologies and SCRUM.
The rewards for joining BETFAIR Romania are excellent. They include a competitive remuneration and benefits package alongside a professional and socially-minded working environment.
Betfair has won many awards, including the Computer Weekly “Best Places to Work in IT” award on two occasions and it received Best Companies Accreditation for the “The best companies to work for in the UK”.
We are always looking for brilliant people to join our successful business!
