QA Analyst - Senior

Our client is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories. Behind this gigantic brand are more than 6,500 talented employees who continuously raise the bar with innovative solutions and products that deliver the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world.

Currently this client is seeking a QA ANALYST to work for centralized testing and QA services for multiple platforms and products across the enterprise. This group operates a vast array of high-volume ETL data flows, client-facing Information Products and internal BI/Analytics environments. The corporation's Data Warehouse and Business intelligence platform is an integral component of the broader services. The accuracy and reliability of this complex environment is critical to the company in a variety of ways.

The successful candidate will bring a strong understanding of ETL and BI/Analytics environments to assure quality in a fast-paced and highly complex big data environment. Strong work experience with Ab Initio or similar ETL technology is required to be considered. Communication skills are essential as direct engagement with business operations teams will be a significant part of the role.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Oversee and coordinate with a number of 3rd party vendor activities around the world, delivering test plans, cases, and producing results
- Embrace teamwork and promote a culture of openness and flexibility with business partners and the extended team
- Lead ETL QA project activity, meeting commitments and ensuring that testing and QA activities comply with corporate policies and adhere to industry best practices.
- Understand cross-functional dependencies and collaborate with other teams to meet end-to-end quality goals.
- Play a QA leadership role on the team in ETL environment for the Data Warehouse - ensuring a comprehensive test plan, clearly articulated test cases, and team productivity in execution.
- Collaborate with subject-matter experts and ensure proper sizing of QA efforts, defining success criteria and managing expectations.
- Understand cross-functional dependencies and collaborate with other teams to meet end-to-end quality goals.
- Understand product and platform dependencies and help define QA environment and infrastructure needs.
- Foster partnerships with upstream and downstream teams including development, UAT, and user groups to ensure alignment and consistency in reducing product quality risk throughout the SDLC.
- Guide team on multi-threaded project deliveries and mitigate quality risk exposure.
- Be accountable for tactical day-to-day decisions including estimating, scheduling, test planning, execution, and risk management.
- Drive continuous improvement around processes and technical capabilities (ie automation strategies).
- Partner with offshore team members to ensure effective execution, leveraging scale as project demand warrants.
- Evaluate current procedures and practices and drive continuous improvement around processes and technical capabilities (ie automation strategies). Champion a metrics driven approach in all key process areas.

QUALIFICATIONS:

- 6-10 years of progressive professional work experience in a development and/or quality assurance role
- 4+ years in an ETL data warehouse environment.
- Ability to deliver results on multiple projects in a complex, fast-moving environment
- Ability to generate creative and innovative solutions for QA challenges and constraints.
- Solid understanding of Black Box and White Box testing, ETL/data flow testing, performance testing, test automation, requirements traceability and general QA process reporting
- Strong work experience with Ab Initio or similar ETL technology
- Solid understanding of MicroStrategy or similar analytical reporting technology
- Experience in leading major efforts across a geographically distributed team and a highly matrixed environment
- Ability to diagnose and drive continuous improvement in a collaborative manner
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Position must sit in Austin

NICE TO HAVE:

- Experience in waterfall, RUP, iterative and agile methodologies a strong plus
- Experience in using industry standard test management tools (eg Quality Center, Clearquest, JIRA) a strong plus
- Broad knowledge and understanding of payment services, processing, systems, and operations a plus

Duration of assignment: Through 6/27/2014 with possible extension.