Senior Tester

Responsibilities

• Accountable for creating, coding and keying accurate and thorough test plans and test cases with pre-determined results.
• Executes tests and reviews test data within specified scheduled dates.
• Accountable for analyzing test and operational problems to determine presence and scope of potential code defects.
• Reports errors through a structured defect tracking process.
• Communicates weekly with management verbally and via written detail status report regarding potential problems and concerns.
• Develop and maintain business and technical knowledge through classroom training, testing workshops, reading, and research, etc.
• Acquire and maintain a working knowledge of testing tools.
• Expand business knowledge of product benefits, corporate policies, division and department goals and department procedures.
• Accountable for reviewing and analyzing business and system requirements and specifications for system programs and modules.
• Coordinates with customers to resolve issues.
• Verify satisfaction of internal and external customer requests and obtain information to create test data.
• Participates in project work group meetings (internal/external peer reviews, walk through, status meetings, Software Process Improvement, JAD sessions etc.)
• Initiates Change Management Records (CMRs) or CareFirst Information Technology Tracking System (CITT) requests for necessary system changes or enhancements.

Job Description

Qualification Requirements:

• Required: 5-8 years of experience in a technical discipline, 5 of which must be in data software testing.
• Experience with test automation, Object Oriented Design, and programing languages (Java, JavaScript, SQL/PL-SQL) a plus.
• Strong background in using and managing both front-end and back-end testing tools (e.g. Selenium, SoapUI, Cucumber, Hadoop, Hive, etc.), with emphasis on back-end testing tools.
• Experience in back end testing of large databases.
• Hands on experience in scheduling jobs and executing automated regression suites in CI/CD Pipeline (e.g.: Jenkins) a plus.
• Accountable for analyzing User Stories, Acceptance Criteria and preparing test cases/scripts.
• Experience creating, modifying and maintaining test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and automated test scripts.
• Extensive experience with relational database management systems (e.g. MS SQL Server, DB2, Oracle).
• Proven proficiency with: SQL and PL/SQL.
• Proven experience to create, maintain and run complex database queries.
• Proven experience with Defect Tracking and management tools (e.g. ALM, AGM, JIRA or others) and Reports errors through a structured defect tracking process.
• Communicates weekly with management verbally and via written detail status report regarding potential problems and concerns.
• Proven experience with Agile and Waterfall software development life cycle (SDLC) models.
• Experience in multiple environments and/or on multiple operating systems (i.e., Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mainframe) and technologies (.Net, Web technologies, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written).

Skills

• Ability to work independently and effectively in small teams is necessary, and to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Should have analytical and architectural mind set for effective framework design.
• Individual must demonstrate initiative, work well independently as well as a contributing member of a team.
• Should be well organized and detail oriented as well as possessing good written and oral communication skill.

Preferred

• Experience working in the healthcare industry.
• Experience with Jira and Java families of products for automation, testing and defect tracking.
• Experience with Selenium, Cucumber, and Business Driven Development (BDD).

Skills List

• Agile Programming Methodologies
• Analysis Skills
• Apache Hadoop
• Apache Hive
• Architectural Services
• Atlassian JIRA
• Bug Tracking/Defect Management
• Business Analysis
• Business Development
• Business Solutions
• Change Management
• Communication Skills
• Continuous Deployment/Delivery
• Continuous Integration
• Corporate Policies
• Detail Oriented
• Healthcare
• IBM DB2
• Information Technology & Information Systems
• Internet Technology
• Java
• Java Decompiler (JAD)
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• Linux Operating System
• Mainframe Computer
• Microsoft .NET
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Windows Operating System
• Multitasking
• Object Oriented Design (OOD)
• Operating Systems
• Operational Audit
• Oracle
• Oracle PL-SQL
• Organizational Skills
• Presentation/Verbal Skills
• Process Improvement
• Records Management
• Relational Databases (RDBMS)
• Resolve Customer Issues
• SQL (Structured Query Language)
• Selenium
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Software Testing
• Status Reports
• Systems Analysis
• Team Player
• Test Automation
• Test Case
• Test Data
• Test Plan/Schedule
• Test Scenario
• Test Scripts
• Test Tools
• Testing
• Unix Operating Systems
• User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)
• Waterfall Model of Software Development
• Writing Skills

About the Company

SAMPRASOFT