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Senior QA Tester (Team Lead)
Posted:12/26/2007
Salary: Negotiable
Work Authorization: US Citizen
Education: Bachelors or equivalent
Location: Sterling VA
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Responsibilities include: • Perform test and evaluation activities, including writing test plans, developing test cases, executing test plans, and writing test reports. • Assisting in the creation of test plans and test scripts related to functionality, integration, user acceptance, regression, and performance testing. • Identify and suggest improvements to the test and evaluation process that will improve product quality, and reduce cycle time. • Work with development team members to identify, reproduce, resolve and retest bugs. • Perform functional, usability, regression, and load & performance testing. • Responsible for setting up and maintaining QA tools and bug tracking system. • Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of the functionality of the product line. • Assist in the development of testing schedules and resource estimates. • Manage time and priorities in an effort to meet all established testing schedules and deadlines. • Assist in the gathering and analysis of quality control metrics and conducting quality inspections • Lead the automation of test scripts in WinRunner and Test Director. • Support the development team in the implementation and ongoing execution of automated unit testing. • Support the QA Team in internal baseline promotion, maintenance of the version control system, as well as other configuration management activities. • Develop and update system documentation. • Conduct peer reviews and other quality assurance activities • Assisting the QA Team in CMM compliance-related activities • Assist in the preparation of the unit testing and system testing environments. • Communicate, as appropriate, with the client's configuration management and testing groups for coordination of software releases.

Requirements: • Three or more years of experience with quality assurance and quality control activities is required. Preferable, on the Microsoft ASP/COM platform. • Should have at least 3-5 years of experience on any one of the test automation tools: Winrunner, Loadrunner, Test Director, Test Manager, or Rational Robot. • Should have exposure to one defect tracking/incident management tool – e.g. PVCS Tracker, BugZilla, or equivalent. • Experience in Quality Control activities and metrics gathering is required • Experience planning and conducting quality inspections such as peer reviews, walkthroughs, Fagan inspections, or equivalent is required • Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) are a must • Team oriented and consensus-based is required for a productive relationship with developers • Proven Experience performing QA Audits for CMM level 3 or higher is desirable • Familiarity with Junit, Nunit, or equivalent Unit Testing tools is desirable • Government experience is a plus


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