Sr QA Analyst

Sr QA AnalystLocation: Austin, TXDuration: 9 Months +As a Quality Assurance Analyst you will be a vital member of Data Delivery Team working on integration development with the company wide Enterprise Service Bus and ETL technologies.Participate in the product development lifecycle, from requirement analysis and design through testing and rollout to ensure that the product meets business needs, and that system and software requirements are verifiable and quantifiableWork with developers, analysts, project managers and system users to identify deviations from requirementsResponsible for test planning, design and execution of test scripts and cases across the systems.Analyze test results, document, report and track defects found in the system.Provide feedback on a timely basis on project and testing status and any risks foreseen during project execution, as well as assess the confidence in all items tested.Make recommendations to improve product reliability, performance, quality assurance best practices and processesBecome involved in Test Automation, Load Testing and other streamlined opportunities that will be injected into the testing lifecycleTest data application interfaces between our external applications using internally developed API's, Web services, Data transformation utilities all utilizing the TIBCO Business Works ESB, and Informatica Power CenterExperience with and knowledge of QA processes, methodologies, and testing techniques, automated and manual test processes, test case design and execution, regression testing, load testing etc.Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and its different methodologies (i.e., Agile, Waterfall, etc.)Strong organizational and problem solving skills.Excellent oral, written and computer communication skills.Independently manage time effectivelySolid understanding of XML and XSD schemasSolid understanding of SQL and ability to write SQL queriesExperience in the Retail/Food IndustryExperience in testing middleware/integration/ETL products. Informatica preferredExperience with Enterprise Service Bus Architecture. TIBCO preferred