Software Testing Specialist - SAS

 Position: Software Testing Specialist - SAS

 Location:Windsor Mill/Woodlawn, Maryland.

 Visa Status: H1, GC, GC-EAD and USC

Job Description

• Work as part of a dynamic team involved with testing business intelligence, data analytics, web and portal products for new features and system enhancements using both manual and automated testing approaches.
• Provide technical support to requirements, development, testing, help desk, and training teams.
• Interact with the development team to ensure data integrity and optimize end-user experience and performance.
• Support internal and external users with User Acceptance Testing planning, execution and monitoring.
• Follow corporate and program SDLC and quality guidelines, as well as adhere to industry regulations and compliance requirements.
• Convert business, functional, and non-functional requirements into test cases.
• Design, develop, execute and maintain automated and manual test scripts, test plans, requirements traceability matrix, and test summary reports.
• Contribute to requirements review sessions with internal and external stakeholders.
• Automate functional, performance and load testing of COTS applications and HTML, Java and C applications using the HP Application Lifecycle Management toolset, with or without a framework.
• Construct complex SQL statements and prepare test data using database tools.
• Analyze record counts and contents, review metadata, and use statistical functions to analyze data quality.
• Maintain accurate defect tracking and reporting metrics.
• Provide advanced technical, product and process guidance on various testing activities to other QA team members.
• Support management in analyzing and implementing initiatives to improve overall process and product quality to enhance the value for end users

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience performing Quality Assurance, Testing and Validation activities in large scale, complex IT environments.
• 3+ years of experience testing COTS Business Intelligence or analytics tools such as SAS, BusinessObjects, MicroStrategy, Cognos, and/or others.
• 3+ years of experience with designing and implementing test automation frameworks, harnesses and scripts leveraging tools such as HP UFT and Selenium.
• Understands semantic layers and report structures; interprets error logs and debugs complex reporting and analytics defects, especially for the SAS product suite.
• Able to create load tests using HP Application Lifecycle Management functions for up to 200 concurrent users.
• Hands-on experience with design, development, and implementation of testing processes, and creation of test plans, test cases, and automated test processes that support overall quality objectives.
• Demonstrates previous experience designing and implementing methodologies, processes, standards, tools and industry best practices for testing and quality assurance.
• Knowledge of database hierarchy and SQL attributes such as group by, order by, and similar constructs, to verify data values and query results.
• Experience testing HTML 5, JavaScript, Web Services, RESTful API’s, SOAP API’s, and browser compatibility.
• Effectively demonstrate a working knowledge of decision and intelligence systems concepts, and database structures such as ETL, normalization, datamarts, fact tables, dimensions, views, cubes, olap, rolap, rbac, star and snowflake schemas.
• Ability to interpret complex data and communicate it in an effective manner leveraging advanced reporting and visualization techniques.
• Thorough knowledge of system testing practices, and how testing approaches are affected by System Development Life Cycle choices, including Waterfall and Agile.
• Proven interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, including understanding technical documentation skills.
• A self-starter with high levels of initiative and good communication skills, who is also a team player.

Required Experience

      

• Hands-on experience with SAS BASE / EBI / EG / EM / ODS / BI Dashboard / Information Delivery Portal / Information Map Studio / OLAP / Visual Analytics, as well as data step programming (implicit/explicit do loop control, functions, formats, informats, hash tables, date time handling and macro language/macro variables).
• Experience with deployment and configuration of the HP Application Lifecycle Management product, as well as functional and performance testing automation using ALM products, is highly desired.
• Knowledge of the Medicare FFS claims processing systems and business procedures.
• Detailed knowledge of the CMS Teradata Integrated Data Repository (IDR), as well as knowledge gained by testing Medicare or Medicaid information systems, is greatly valued.
• Previous healthcare domain experience, especially testing connected with Medicare claims, is appreciated.
• Previous experience with application development in an Agile and/or CMMI SDLC is considered advantageous.
• Experience with Section 508 Compliance Testing for Applications and Documents, especially using JAWS, is considered helpful.
• Experience with release management and collaboration tools such as DOORS, MKS, ALM and SharePoint.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, business administration or equivalent.

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