QA Specialist

Requisition Number: 214539

External Description:

Description

The QA Specialist designs the test strategy, test plans, and test case specifications, plans test resources, participates in code reviews, creates or configures the test environment, creates or procures the test data, writes the scripts that will execute the tests, executes test cases, records test case results, documents and tracks defects, and performs test coverage analysis. To fulfill this role the QA specialist must develop tests that identify defects as precisely as possible. The objective is to obtain as much test coverage as possible with a minimum set of test cases and repeated rework, retest. The QA specialist is normally the Lead Consultant on a project.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Analyze requirements and specifications and translate requirements into a defined test strategy, plan, and specifications.
• Establish expected results based on acceptance criteria and test data for test cases.
• Introduce, optimize, or adapt supporting processes like defect management and configuration management to capture and manage defects, fixes, regression test cycles, and data reloads.
• Create, install, optimize, and administrate the testing environment.
• Create customized or tool generated test scripts to execute and automate test plans.
• Execute the test scripts and test plans and record results.
• Capture and manage defects, fixes, regression test cycles, and data reloads.
• Create and communicate test reports, status, and testing information to the project team and Project Manager.
• CI/CD Implementation using orchestration engine and automation tools for SDLC including Data Ingestion, Wrangling, Testing, Packaging & Deployment, Scheduling and Operations support processes etc.

Qualifications

• In depth knowledge of testing methodologies, testing strategies, testing tools, test case development, test process management, and defect management.
• In depth knowledge of installing, operating, and administrating test environments.
• Knowledge of the Teradata environment, database characteristics, ETL processes, and applications.
• Knowledge of configuration management, software engineering, specification methods, and development processes.
• Knowledge of quality management, project management and personnel management.
• Application Development/ Scripting (i.e. Java, shell scripting), Jenkins/Others, Git/SVN/Others

Skill Category

Skill Mapping

Databases

Primary Skill

Operations Skills

Knowledge

Software Development Skills

Primary Skill

Teradata Applications

Primary Skill

Tools – Business Intelligence

Knowledge

Tools – Big Data

Knowledge

Tools – Enterprise Application Integration

Knowledge

Tools – ETL

Secondary Skill

Tools – Security

Knowledge

Tools – System Management

Knowledge

Tools – Teradata

Primary Skill

Tools – Testing

Primary Skill

Schedule : Full-time

Experience : 5+ years

Primary Location : Pakistan-Islamabad

CountryEEOText_Description:

City: Islamabad

State: Islamabad

Community / Marketing Title: QA Specialist

Job Category: Services

Company Profile:

Our Company

Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform for enterprise analytics company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale. Only Teradata gives you the flexibility to handle the massive and mixed data workloads of the future, today.

The Teradata Vantage architecture is cloud native, delivered as-a-service, and built on an open ecosystem. These design features make Vantage the ideal platform to optimize price performance in a multi-cloud environment.

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