Sr. QA Engineer

Company Description

We specialize in Staffing, Consulting, Software Development, and Training along with IT services to small to medium size companies. AG's primary objective is to help companies maximize their IT resources and meet the ever-changing IT needs and challenges.

In addition, AG offers enterprise resource planning and enterprise application integration, supply-chain management, e-commerce solutions, and B2B public exchanges and B2B process integration solutions. Our company provides application analysis, design, development and programming, software engineering, systems development, testing, integration, and implementation, and management consulting services to various clients – including governmental agencies and private companies – throughout the United States and India.

We provide these services in multiple computing environments and use technologies such as client/server architecture, object-oriented programming languages and tools, distributed database management systems, state-of-the-art networking, and communications infrastructures. Our honest and realistic approach to recruiting dictates that AG does not entice or lure engineers from their employers. We represent only high caliber technical professionals who have committed to making a change required by career.

Job Description

DIRECT CLIENT REQUIREMENT

Implements the testing strategies and methods for Enterprise data warehouse projects.

Needs SQL and shell scripts experience. Will be conducting manual and automated tests. 

Responsible for analyzing and testing IT product lines that are developed for internal and external Premier customers. Works in collaboration with Application Development; the Quality Assurance team; the Project Management team; the Data Warehouse team; the Solutions Center and other IT stakeholders to ensure that the applications development projects have been tested and meet the required deliverables. The role includes planning, designing, executing and tracking the results of associated test efforts. 

Minimum Requirements: A Bachelor's degree (BS, BA) required. Area of study in IT, Computer science or related discipline. 5-7 years of relevant experience. Minimum of 5 years works experience in Data Warehouse Development to include: Dimensional Data Warehouses, SQL, complex ETL processes, shell scripting. Hadoop experience preferred.

Skills matrix to fill out:

S.No. 1

Skill: A Bachelor's degree (BS, BA) required. Area of study in IT, Computer science or related discipline.

Required/ Desired Years Of Experience: Yes

S.No. 2

Skill: Work experience in IT Applications Development to include: Web/.NET/JAVA technology; Windows/XP/UNIX platforms; QTP/Loadrunner/Quality Center;

Required/ Desired: 2-5 yrs

S.No.3.

Skill: Experience in performance improvement consulting projects in a hospital required (internal or external)

Required/ Desired: 1 yr

S.No. 4.

Skill:  Work experience in IT Applications Development to include:Writing complex SQL and automation test scripts; ETL processes and testing;

Required/ Desired:  7 yrs

S.No.5.

Skill:  Work experience in IT Applications Development to include:HP Suite of Products (QTP/Loadrunner/Quality Center); object-oriented programming; Java, JSP

Required/ Desired: 5 yrs

S.No. 6.

Skill: Work experience in IT Applications Development to include:UNIX/Linux, and Windows XP Systems ; J2EE, Spring, Struts, JavaScript, XML

Required/ Desired: 2 yrs

 S.No. 7.

Skill:  Work experience in IT Applications Development to include:REST/SOAP/JSON, Hibernate and/orIbatis; Server side platforms: Red Hat, Apache Http Server

Required/ Desired: 1 yr 

S.No.  8.

Skill: Work experience in IT Applications Development to include: Tomcat and JBoss; Development tools: ANT, Subversion, Maven, Hudson, Junit/DbUnit/FlexUnit

Required/ Desired: 1.5 yrs

S.No. 9

Skill: Work experience in IT Applications Development to include: Hypersonic, Easymock, Eclipse.

Required/ Desired:  Nice to have

 S.No.10

Skill: 2-3 years application development in a Java environment.

Required/ Desired 3 yrs

S.No.11

Skill: Work experience in Hadoop environment.

Required/ Desired:  6 months +

 S.No.12  

Skill:  Work experience in IT Applications Development to include: Micro Strategy/BI environments; Verifying queries, validating input;

Required/ Desired: 3 yrs

Additional Information

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DURATION:6m contract to hire

INTERVIEW: PHONE & SKYPE

GC or USC only. No H1Bs