Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - 1506919

Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Westlake, TX
Posted on: June 12, 2015

Job Description:

Duties: Test specified applications and integrated systems to support

installation of a quality product into our operations environment. This

includes participating in the testing effort on highly complex projects

involving multiple QA Test Engineers, analysis of client and product system

requirements, including Systems Requirements Analysis (SRA) / System Design

Specifications (SDS) and enhancement requests. Testing is focused on

ensuring system quality standards are met by planning, designing and

executing the appropriate test cases. This includes configuring test plans,

mining and manipulating test data, executing test cases, first-level triage

of defects found, and retesting of defects through resolution. Will be

required to execute project deliverables and tasks on time and on budget to

support profitable and high quality operations service delivery. Will help

train and mentor more junior QA Test Engineers.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as escalation point person for technical problems and

queries.

• Redirect issues to other stakeholders where offshore involvement is

not deemed necessary.

• Communicate onshore sensitivities, urgencies etc. to the offshore

team.

• Facilitate a better understanding of the team work between DC QA in

India and the U.S. in working together as part of Waterfall methodology.

• Coordinate training sessions and knowledge sharing activities.

• Identify the project risks, escalate to business and stake holders,

plan the risk mitigation strategy.

• Attend roundtable discussions with Business Analysts and QA support

group.

• Attend meetings for specific project work with the India team and

follow up with adequate communication around minutes, action items and

status updates.

• Work with the QA team to prepare and review test plan, run test

cases in QC, check the feasibility of Test Automation.

• Focus on the project target dates and ensure SLAs are met.

• Collate project defect data and conduct triage meetings.

• Work directly with the client regarding needs and requirements.

• Analyze daily/weekly QA status report and summarize and share with

stakeholders.

• Track the change controls appropriately and perform re-estimation

on need basis.

• Provide constructive feedback to offshore lead of identified gaps.

• Provide technical and process guidance to team in complex areas of

conversion such as Distribution elections, Systematic Withdrawal plans, PAS-

W, Loan Default, Vesting, minimum required distributions, Automatic

enrollment and Annual increase program.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in

Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Physics and four (4) years of

experience in the job offered or four (4) years of experience in Quality

Assurance testing of a Defined Contribution product and 401(K) related

application portal; or, alternatively, a Master’s degree (or foreign

education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or

Physics and two (2) years of experience in the job offered or two (2) years

of experience in Quality Assurance testing of a Defined Contribution

product and 401(K) related application portal. Also Requires:

Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) in test planning and test execution of large

complex online Defined Contributions processing applications using CICS,

VSAM, JCL and File aid, and writing SQL queries for data extraction and

manipulation to present test conditions; DE testing Defined Contributions

record keeping applications functions and features, including application

integration points (e.g., 401 related record keeping and reporting

applications), and end-to-end functional, non-functional User Acceptance

and Regression testing within a Waterfall environment; DE in coordinating,

coaching, and providing quality control for an onshore-offshore team of

test analysts; DE using Quality Center to record requirements, defects, and

test plans/cases results and reports using the Dashboard Module.

To apply, visit http://jobs.fidelity.com and search for Job Number 1506919.

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