28-08-2009 | EXPIRA LA 03-09-2009
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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
Our client is a leading IT and business services company. They enable business transformation for their customers through the innovative use of technology.
