Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Our client is a leading provider of technology solutions designed to automate the sales and service of insurance products for insurance carriers. Their flagship product, Dragon, is a tools-based, data-driven insurance underwriting, policy administration, rating and workflow engine.

Develop test cases based on Product Management specifications and Use Cases, including for lines of business (LOBS), acceptance & smoke testing. Set up and maintain a QA Test Environment for testing Core releases. Set up and maintain a QA Test/customer environment for testing customer-specific releases. Establish and operate defect tracking via PVCS and JIRA.

Manage tool definition to support the product life cycle, as well as requirement tracking and trace-ability. Manage software test efforts, release management and process definition.

Assist in data collection methodologies and quantification on financial impact of results. Provide technical (quality tool) and statistical expertise to teams as well as one on one support. Facilitate implementation of process control systems and statistical process control charts. Provide process improvement know how, methods and conceptual expertise to all teams across the company. Identify application opportunities for the technical/statistical tools of quality/process improvement. Assist teams in presenting data and conclusions clearly.

REQUIRED SKILLS

  • Ability to work effectively in a culturally diverse work group
  • Minimum of 5 year's experience in a Quality Assurance role
  • Process definition
  • Release management
  • Coaching, mentoring, teaching skills
  • Skill dealing with product managers, engineers and senior management
  • Excellent communication, presentation and facilitation skills
  • Teamwork/collaborative style
  • Demonstrated ability to work successfully on large projects.
  • Problem solving skills evidenced by demonstrated results in past positions
  • Ability to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple/detail-oriented tasks.
  • Ability to influence at all levels of the organization
  • Ability to travel to client sites

    • EDUCATION

    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS or a related discipline


    PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS

  • Certified Software Tester (CSTE)

    • E-mail: employment@inforcetechnologies.com


    Senior Oracle DBA Engineer

    10+ years of related database experience designing, developing, tuning, optimizing, deploying and updating Oracle instances in a high volume transactional environment with critical uptime requirements,

    The Senior Oracle Database Engineer will provide the technical domain and leadership required to effectively deliver high quality, timely solutions and services that meet EA's business needs with a focus on the Online IT line of business. The Senior Oracle DBA Engineer's primary focus is to research, evaluate, plan design, allocate, implement, support and optimize all aspects of EA*s Oracle databases in a high volume transactional environment with critical uptime requirements. This position requires excellent Oracle knowledge with expertise in performance tuning, trouble shooting and database backup and recovery.

    REQUIRED SKILLS

  • Installation, configuration and upgrading of Oracle server software a 9i, 10g and 11g Real Application Cluster (RAC) and related products
  • Perform data modeling (logical and physical) and architecture
  • SQL and database tuning
  • Database growth collection and capacity planning
  • Evaluate Oracle features and Oracle related products
  • Establish and maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures
  • Implement and maintain database security
  • Proactively monitoring database performance and come up with suggestions for preventative maintenance and continuous improvements
  • Setup and maintain documentation and standards
  • Work as part of a team and provide 7x24 support when required for trouble shooting of production issues
  • General technical trouble shooting and give consultation to development teams
  • Participate in disk layout and disk capacity planning
  • Interface with Oracle Corporation for technical support
  • Set up and monitoring of data replication and maintenance of standby databases
  • Help design and develop tools for the Database Services team
  • Perform load testing
  • Lead complex data migration efforts
  • Excellent in OLTP performance tuning
  • Identify bottle necks and provide solutions

    • CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS

  • 10+ years of related database experience designing, developing, tuning, optimizing, deploying and updating Oracle instances in a high volume transactional environment with critical uptime requirements
  • Must have object oriented development experience
  • Expertise with Oracle database, related utilities and tools
  • Expertise with LINUX and Sun Solaris
  • Expertise with hardware and storage architecture
  • Expertise with data architecture and data modeling
  • Expert understanding of PL/SQL, triggers, etc
  • Expert understanding of Oracle internals and concepts
  • Expert knowledge to perform both Oracle and operation system performance tuning and monitoring
  • Expertise of all Oracle backup and recovery scenarios including RMAN
  • Expertise with performance tools like stats pack
  • Expert knowledge of Oracle security management
  • Expert with Oracle 9i, 10g and 11g RAC required
  • Superior oral and written communication skills; polished professional; communicates with impact

    • EDUCATION

    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS or a related discipline – advanced degree preferred


    PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS

  • Oracle Database 10g: Real Application Clusters Administrator Certified Expert
  • Oracle Database 10g: Managing Oracle on Linux Certified Expert
  • Oracle Database: SQL Certified Expert
  • Oracle Database 11g: Performance Tuning

    • E-mail: employment@inforcetechnologies.com


    WebSphere / J2EE Architect

    Senior Developer/Architect will help develop enterprise-class e-commerce applications and associated business processes, generate requirements documentation, detailed design specifications, and test plans for WebSphere Commerce applications, and work with Business Analysts to understand business requirements.

    Additional responsibilities include: developing reusable components and services that address the requirements discovered, developing catalog load processes, helping develop methodologies to implement technology solutions while incorporating best practices from an internal and external perspective, and supporting developers in configuration of development environments and deployment of application builds.

    The Architect will lead technical design efforts and perform peer code reviews, provide estimates to assist project managers in building Work Packages and Work Breakdown Structures, periodically support business development efforts related to WebSphere Commerce, and document architecture standards and usage guidelines.

    REQUIRED SKILLS

  • 5+ years experience with J2EE and the WebSphere Commerce suite of products including WebSphere Commerce Server and WebSphere Application Server.
  • Ability to leverage: WC commands, EJBs, JSPs, Servlets, JDBC, JNDI, ANT, and JSTL
  • Expertise with messaging oriented middleware including MQ Series and JMS
  • Expertise with XML, UML and Web Services
  • Expertise with the Struts and Spring Application Frameworks
  • Expertise with Object Oriented Programming and Object Oriented Design
  • Expertise with J2EE IDEs including RAD, WSAD, and Eclipse
  • Expertise with code management tools including CVS
  • Expertise with Data Access objects and Hibernate Object to Relational Data mapping
  • Expertise with SQL design and development including stored procedures, triggers, packages
  • Support performance tuning of customer's WebSphere Commerce environments including IHS, WAS, DB2 or Oracle
  • Ability to generate technical specifications including application design, database design, and ongoing change requests
  • Ability to lead and mentor a cross-functional development teams
  • Effective organizational and time management skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in support of client facing consulting
  • Ability to handle multiple projects concurrently

    • EDUCATION

    Bachelor*s degree in Computer Science, MIS or a related discipline – Advanced degree preferred


    PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS

  • IBM certified WebSphere administrator WAS 5/6
  • IBM certified WebSphere administrator WPS 6.x
  • IBM certified WCM administrator WPS 6.x
  • IBM Certification for WCM 6.x

    • E-mail: employment@inforcetechnologies.com