Software Quality Assurance Systems Specialist Job

SOFTWARE QA SYSTEMS SPECIALIST needed for a CONTRACT opportunity with Yoh's client located in Fort Collins, Colorado.

THE BIG PICTURE - TOP SKILLS YOU SHOULD POSSESS:

- Software Testing

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

- Understanding of the formal software development process.
- Test plan and test case development;
- Automated test development (including incorporation of dynamic test data);
- Manual and automated testing of software functionality, installation, and usability (including 508 compliancy);
- Load and performance testing;
- Bug management and error tracking; and
- Test report documentation.
- COTS installation/setup

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING TO THE TABLE:

- The successful candidate must be able to perform testing of web and desktop software applications, understand formal software engineering practices and quality assurance standards.
- The ability to interpret product requirements, develop test procedures, and understand functional, performance, load, installation, and usability testing concepts are key.
- In addition, the position must be able to perform system administration of the entire QA test environment.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING TO THE TABLE:

- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT., or similar degree; Candidates without a college degree will be considered, but must at least eight (8) years of relevant development experience
- Four (4) plus years of structured software quality assurance engineering experience is required. Hands-on experience with creation of test plans, development and execution of test cases and reporting of test results is a must.
- Note: Experience denotes "successful demonstrated experience".
- Experience with executing both functional, usability, and deployment testing - test execution experience in C#/.NET environment is preferred
- Test Plan and Test Case Development based on software engineering documentation (functional and deployment testing)
- Experience with Quality Assurance practices and Testing Methodologies
- Experience with formal testing of complex server-based software systems
- Experience with commercial bug management system
- Working knowledge Microsoft Office tool suite (including Visio)
- Demonstrated Documentation and Reporting experience
- Basic understanding of program interfaces, services, databases, messaging, files systems, and other program objects.

BONUS POINTS! OTHERWISE KNOWN AS PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Experience with automated testing applications similar to Visual Studio 2010 Test Edition and/or HP Quality Center.
- Multi-tier computing environments including load balanced application (Middleware) Servers supported by Back End database Servers
- Experience testing in an agile development environment
- Excellent analytical and problem determination skills
- Operating system management experience with Windows Server 2003/2008
- Experience with configuration of Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008/2010 (C#) development experience
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 and SQL Scripting
- Working background in GIS technologies such as ESR,I including ArcSDE, ArcIMS, ArcGIS
- Operating system management experience with Unix/Linux
- Experience with the compliancy requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act for web applications design.
- Experience with source control management software, such as Subversion (SVN)
- Scripting experience (ie Cygwin, Dos, Bash, Perl, Python, and/or VBscript)

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