Friday, October 07, 2011

SquareTwo Financial - Quality Assurance

SquareTwo Financial is a growing asset management company located in the Denver Tech Center. We have proven ourselves to be a leader in the financial market by attracting and retaining motivated, hardworking and creative team players. Due to our growth and visionary leadership, we are currently adding to our team and looking for talented professionals who are committed to building and delivering quality software in support of our internal and external customers. Are you ready to be part of our team?

SquareTwo Financial is seeking an experienced and proven Software Quality Assurance Senior Analyst to ensure the integrity of mission critical systems. As a key member of our team you'll have experience in evaluating, implementing and maintaining test frameworks. You will work primarily as an individual contributor and may also lead QA initiatives. Your focus will be on conducting quality assurance activities by preparing and executing QA test strategies, test cases/scripts, task estimation, troubleshooting, issue resolution, and organizing appropriate level of testing.

How you'll spend your day:

• Partnering with Application Development, Product Development, Infrastructure, Scrum Management, Production Support and the Business in pursuit of quality processes.
• Leading QA tactical initiatives including resource and task assignment, issue resolution, results analysis, corrective actions and proactive communication to IT and Business stakeholders.
• Monitoring quality and leading your QA Team by providing thought leadership for test strategy, mentorship for communication/interpersonal interactions, test methodologies, industry standards, technical guidance (including tool usage) and review of deliverables for completeness, appropriateness and quality of testing.
• Using your experience to estimate tasks, assess risk and troubleshoot problem areas
• Author detailed test plans – scope, strategy, approach and execution
• Creating enumerated test cases/scripts to satisfy User Story success criteria.
• Track defects by identifying, dating, documenting and helping to identify any trends so that we can improve our future quality.
• Work through all defects of any state through closure
• Assisting in organization-wide process reengineering initiatives including issue identification, solution evaluation, change management and implementation.
• Mentoring and coaching junior team members with a goal of becoming the best QA group in the Front Range.
• Developing/managing testing tools to analyze, monitor, and report on test results and process improvement.

What we're looking for from you:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

5+ years in QA/IT testing (functional, system, UAT, regression).

Ability to analyze problems in situations where the symptoms are not of a standard or familiar nature, therefore requiring independent thought and logical trouble shooting methods.

Financial Services experience desired.

Ability to guide or coordinate the efforts of 2-5 other individuals in the testing process.
• Experience in designing, developing and implementing test methodologies preferred. Strong QA methodology, process and technical leadership.

Deep understanding of software development life cycles and experience in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Outstanding attention to detail; deadline and results oriented.

Experience in collecting, analyzing and reporting on quality metrics.

Experience in a subset of the following technologies would be amazing: Firefox, AJAX, HTML, XML, Web Services, Oracle environment (Fusion Middleware environment, Oracle DB, BPEL, ADF).

Strong SQL scripting and relational database understanding

Preferred experience with Quality Center/Test Director, metric formulation and analysis

And here's what you'll enjoy:

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits

Support for your community involvement

SquareTwo University – for your professional development

Opportunity to learn, grow and contribute

Goldstone Partners is helping this stable, successful and growing organization find talented contributors who want to be part of an amazing team. Please apply here for immediate consideration or send your resume to me personally at success@goldstonepartners.com.
Principals only please. Unfortunately we are unable to support relocation or sponsorships at
this time.