Friday, July 23, 2010

Test Engineer

Exp: 0 to 5 Years

About the Job

Description

Job Description

Testing professionals utilize Accenture delivery assets to plan and implement testing and quality assurance initiatives to ensure solution quality before deployment.

Technical Testing professionals apply Accenture methods and other assessment procedures to identify system defects prior to deployment.

An Analyst Programmer/Senior Software Engineer contributes to the development, delivery and maintenance of technology-based business solutions.  He/she is skilled in designing, coding, testing, and implementing configuration changes to software applications to meet both functional and technical requirements.  He/she will have oversight responsibility for the technology solution and may assist in the development of the team.

Key responsibilities may include:

Manage on-shore and off-shore activities
Track and coordinate testing and related activities for assigned projects
Create release work plan, including estimating level of efforts, establishing key milestones, allocating resources, tracking actuals
Managing team to the release plan through the entire software development life cycle (SDLC).
Measure and monitor progress during each test phase to ensure that the project is tested, validated, and released on time
Coordinate defect creation, tracking, and run the daily defect meeting
Follow-up with client development teams to provide the necessary information for defect resolution
Participate in quality management reviews
Designing, coding and testing program modules
Maintaining, tuning and repairing applications; performing preventive maintenance activities; providing user support

Qualifications

Exp: 0 to 5 Years experience with any of the following: testing methodology; test planning and execution; performance testing and tuning; assembly/product testing; regression testing; performance testing; automated testing tools and reports.
Minimum 1 year experience using Automation Tools (i.e. QTP, Mercury Suite - WinRunner etc.)
Experience testing in Banking or Financial Services applications, Capital Markets, Market Risk or Credit Risk application experience required

Preferred skills

Development experience (i.e. Java, Cobol, Visual Basic, SQL, HTML, JSP etc.)
Experience in writing queries in SQL and/or Oracle and VB scripts
Experience with Unix
Experience with Autosys
Experience in handling multiple projects.
Experience with all phases of software development Life Cycle.
Experience working with onshore/offshore teams

Professional Skill Requirements

Ability to contribute to the creation of an environment that facilitates high performance and motivates individuals to work collaboratively as a team
Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
Desire to work in an information systems environment
Strong oral and written communication skills
Time management skills
Basic project management skills