Quality Assurance Consultant

Quality Assurance ConsultantOrganizations today are not only challenged by the constantly changing and emerging technologies, but are also confronted with difficulties in acquiring adequate human resources to meet the dynamics of the different IT Project initiatives. It becomes imperative to any business organization to utilize the most cost-effective ways of acquiring talent for immediate and long-term projects with a specific or niche skill set.Since our inception, Reliable Software has been offering IT consulting services to the clients which enable them to maximize their IT investment and that has made us extremely competent enough to work on any IT consulting project for any industry domain. We offer world-class business solutions leveraging widely accepted strategies and technologies on different platforms and these services come at competitive rates. We design end to end business solutions from conceptualization to implementation as per the client's requirements.To acquire strategic skills in a timely and cost-effective manner, many companies turn to Reliable Software for quality IT resource management. Reliable Software has the ability to quickly respond to technology initiatives by strategically acquiring skills and managing available resources. With customers ranging in size from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, we understand the ever increasing need for talented IT professionals in the development of new technologies. Reliable Software is in business to help you maintain your competitive advantage by cost-effectively delivering highly skilled consultants when and how you need them most.Reliable Software helps you address technical resource requirements with contract services. We invite you to see the difference working with Reliable Software and our strength is in our people and we are ready to work hard for you. Our broad portfolio of solutions enables us to meet your specific staffing requirements across all technologies and domains.Job DescriptionGreetings from Reliable Software Resources Inc!!!This is Sreekanth G from Reliable Software Resources Inc and I am writing to see whether you are interested in an exciting/challenging opportunity at Baltimore MD On-site.Our client is interested in hiring a QA Consultant who can use QA, Selenium, and Agile.Please let us know whether you would like to be considered. We hope you do as this is truly a great opportunity to make a difference. If you are interested please respond back to this e-mail with your updated resume and a summary of your key skills and the compensation you are looking for. You can also reach me at View phone number on click.appcast.io.The details of the position are as mentioned below:Title: QA ConsultantLocation: Baltimore MDDuration: 6+MonthsTerm: Contract / FulltimeInterview Process: Phone then Webx / On-SiteRemote Option: NoRequired: Tasks & DutiesExcellent communication skills to include verbal, written & presentation.1. 5-10 years developing test strategy and automation framework in an enterprise environment, preferably in Agile environment as well.2. 5-10 years directing all test activities from automation, to script generations, to vendor relations and implementation. Experience with Selenium/Cucumber is a MUST.3. 5-10 years customer and vendor documentation and communication experience to include developing goals, high level initiatives and looking at the team on how to achieve (this team would be over 100 at SSA)Job Description:Description of Work:• Participate in the full life cycle of an agile project including in planning, retrospectives, demos and daily stand-ups and demonstrates precision and accuracy in estimating and subsequently delivering within sprints• Designs test plans for complex distributed systems in accordance with overall testing strategy• Develop and execute maintainable automation tests for acceptance, functional, and regression test cases• Investigate and debug test failures, updating tests or reporting bugs as necessary and provide test coverage analysis based on automation results• Regularly leads team through preparing and estimation sessions to define acceptance criteria, ensures that the team's acceptance criteria for stories and tasks is appropriate and being met universally• Collaborate with development organization to understand how development changes affect ongoing Automation efforts• Quality Assurance to ensure full functional testing of new features being added every sprint, as well as full regression testing for all previously implemented functionality in every sprint• Ensure proper version control and configuration management of all test object developed and test environments used• Assist in the creation of test project status reports and metrics and provide weekly and monthly status to the management• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis• Become knowledgeable on the HIPAA policies and procedures for the program and ensure awareness of HIPAA breach process. Understand your role in HIPAA compliance and be able to execute that role in an effective mannerBasic Qualifications:Minimum knowledge, skills, abilities.• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology/Systems, Engineering or related discipline and 14 years of relevant work experience as a Test Automation Engineer to help the team deliver results of high quality employing agile best practices• 8 years of experience in developing and maintaining automated testing framework and infrastructure using object oriented design• 3 years of experience in using Selenium/Cucumber to develop and manage automated test scripts• 5 years of experience in using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) automation tool to develop and manage automated test scripts• 8 years of experience in developing test plan, test scenarios, test scripts, acceptance criteria and test data• 8 years of experience in investigating and debugging test failures, updating tests or reporting bugs as necessary• 5 years of experience in using SQL and relational databases (Oracle, DB2)• Experience in capturing and reusing automated Unit Test cases, Test Stubs and Drivers and other development test objects• Experience in integrating project testing with continuous-integration processPreferred Qualifications:Candidates with these skills will be given preferential consideration.• Experience in using risk-driven techniques to develop, maintain and execute automated test suites to perform automated dynamic testing• Experience in using VersionOne and HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)• Proficient in Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Object-oriented programming skills• Proficient in MS Office, MS Visio, and SharePoint• Excellent team building skills, including cross-functional team building• Prior Social Security Administration (SSA) disability experience is a plusIf interested, please send a reply with your Updated ResumeAdditional InformationAll your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.