The candidate must be confident, communicate effectively, organized, test creatively, adapt to changing requirements, estimate work effort, and provide frequent status updates to the team lead. The candidate must be able to work independently with minimal supervision, but intense scrutiny, in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities include:

• Reviewing requirements for testability
• Writing, maintaining, and executing test cases based on requirements or use cases
• Coordinating Integration testing with another test team
• Implementing standard testing methods
• Communicating with development teams to review and resolve defects
• Estimating test effort hours
• Conducting peer reviews of test cases
• Documenting defects
• Creating test plan/strategy and test reports
• Participating in review meetings for defect status, priority and information exchange

Required skills:

• Experience with standard testing methodologies and processes
• Experience with writing SQL for backend testing
• Ability to analyze problems and propose solutions
• Full lifecycle project experience
• Defect tracking tool usage
• Test management tool usage
• Excellent written communication skills
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• At least 6 years of testing experience

Preferred skills:

• QTP test automation development and maintenance
• DOORS or other requirements management tool
• Quality Center
• StarTeam