QA Openings in Microtek Systems Inc.

This position is that of a Software Quality Analyst who has experience on a variety of technology platforms (web, client-server, mainframe, SAP), development methodologies (waterfall, iterative, agile programming), and business domains (finance, logistics, telecomm, supply chain, distribution, transportation, marketing and sales) in a fluid, dynamic environment.

Required Technical, Administrative & Programming Skills:

• • Certification Requirement: CSTE and/or CQA or equivalent preferred
• • 2-3 years of IT experience as a test analyst with back-end database or data
•    warehouse testing, validating data load/transfers from multiple sources to the
•    data warehouse and the transformation logic applied
• • Experience with data warehouses and relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server,
•    Teradata, DB2) with strong knowledge of SQL and database structures
• • Solid experience working as the sole test analyst on multiple fluid, dynamic
•    projects
• • Solid experience leading multiple testing projects from start to finish
• • Solid experience developing test plans/strategies, test cases, and test scripts
• • Experience planning and estimating testing duration and effort
• • Possess a thorough understanding of development and testing methodologies
• • Experience testing in an iterative development environment
• • Database testing - Solid experience testing relational databases
• • Experience writing SQL statements to create test data & validate data
•    [inserts/updates/deletes] and to compare source to target transformation logic
• • Database tools - Experience using database query tools for Oracle, SQL and UNIX
•    such as TOAD, Teradata SQL Assistant and SQL Plus
• • Use of Mercury Test Tools: Quality Center/Test Director
• • Experience using test tools for test management, requirements traceability, 
•    defect tracking
• • Windows/Web and/or Client Server testing
• • Recent solid testing experience in a Windows/Web-enabled environment
• • Recent solid testing experience in client-server application environment
• • Extract Transform Load (ETL) experience and Job Scheduling tools
• • Experience with testing ETL in a data warehouse application, job scheduling tools 
•    such as Tivoli and experience with UNIX environments
• • Use of other Tools - Informatica, Data Stage, Teradata SQL Assistant, Rational
•    Test Manager, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Robot

Preferred Qualifications:

• • Bachelors Degree or equivalent (Masters Degree Preferred)
• • Candidate must have 2-3 years of related experience