Great-West Life Financial Services is currently looking for a highly skilled and motivated Team Leader with QA/Business Systems Analyst experience to join a large systems department.
This position is a working Team Lead initially supervising a staff of three (3) for the Data Services Reporting team. This will include managing projects that formulate, define, and document system/application scope and objectives through research and fact-finding to develop or modify simple to highly complex reporting applications in support of the financial services division.
This role will perform quality assurance functions including testing computer applications developed across multiple languages to ensure software quality and data reporting integrity. We are looking for a Team Leader experienced in QA testing of data files and reports.
Additionally, you will perform business analysis functions, evaluating the requirements received from the business area, determining the impact to the system, and developing written business specifications to be used for the design, development and the testing process.
Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum six (6) years experience including at least two (2) years experience leading projects while being accountable for team performance and directly managing people.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent experience. Master's degree in related systems or business field is strongly desired.
Business Analysis experience
Strong background in testing user interface applications
Strong Oracle and PL/SQL skills.
Experience with HP Application Lifecycle Management Quality Center strongly desired
Experience with testing Business Object applications (e.g. Crystal Reports and Data Integrator)
Additional experience desired:
Project Management skills, preferably with Planview.
Understanding of System Development Project Lifecycle
Business knowledge of Defined Contribution Retirement Plans, 401(k), 457 and 403(b)
Management Responsibilities:
Leads key portions of the system development lifecycle including gathering, documenting and analyzing requirements for highly complex, multi-platform applications. Maintains documentation, project tracking, and key stakeholder reporting metrics.
Leads team that provides day to day support to existing reporting applications and troubleshoot system/application performance issues as they arise. Assigns resources to determine and ensure resolution to system/application problems as necessary.
Acts as the primary liaison between key business area and systems teams and communicates project feasibility, status and issues to key stakeholders. Position will have regular interaction with business leaders.
Assigns work and resources to subordinates to achieve productivity, service, and quality standards. Administers and executes policies and procedures typically affecting subordinates. Has limited authority to make exceptions to policy and procedures. Makes decisions on pay, performance, appraisals, work schedules, discipline and hiring.
Responsible for the quarterly planning of Business Plan projects for the team and reporting status and results to management.
QA Responsibilities:
Produces test plans by reviewing business specifications and determining test cases in order to ensure thorough testing of applications/transactions.
Sets up and maintains test data by utilizing technical tools (e.g. SQL, TOAD, UNIX) in order to facilitate efficiency and accuracy of testing.
Performs functional, integration and regression testing by executing Web applications or Oracle 10g Forms Interface and batch transactions.
Business Analyst tasks include:
Working with the business area to understand and analyze requirements for feasibility and functionality.
Assisting in determining impact to system for the change being requested and lead discussions for possible future needs.
Analyzing data relationships through entity relationship diagrams and making suggestions/lead projects for improvements.
Drawing on more than a century of experience, Great-West helps millions of Americans and their companies and employers build greater financial security. Great-West Retirement Services provides retirement savings programs to clients in the corporate, government, and healthcare/nonprofit markets. FASCore, LLC, a Great-West affiliate specializes in retirement plan recordkeeping and administration. Great-West's Individual Markets group provides life insurance and annuity products to a broad market, from middle-income Americans to businesses and corporate executives.
Headquartered in metro Denver, we serve customers nationwide through offices around the country. We market our solutions and services through our nationwide network of direct sales professionals, brokers, consultants, advisors, third-party administrators and financial institutions.
For more information, please visit www.greatwestcareers.com. We are an equal opportunity employer dedicated to workforce diversity. We are committed to providing a drug-free workplace.
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