Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
Desired Work Location: Miramar/Dallas

Job Title: Sr Quality Assurance Data Warehouse

What You Need To Know
Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer s Wine & Spirits is North America s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50 year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.
As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.
We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview
The Senior Quality Assurance Analyst job is responsible for the overall quality of systems and technology that are released into ETP s production environment. The scope of this role includes the comprehensive aspects of quality including testing documentation, planning and execution of testing, testing validation, and obtaining approval using both manual processes and automated tools that are available in the SGWS environment.
In their role, Quality Assurance is responsible for ensuring the product meets business requirements and overall business objectives by tracking and reporting quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results and test status, as well as documenting problems and communicating the issue to development staff to assist in their resolution

Primary Responsibilities
Serve in a team leader capacity with large-scale platform testing (SAP, JDA, etc.)
Lead the implementation, build-out, or expansion of automated testing tools
Coordinate and schedule testing programs with project and program teams
Reporting testing outcomes to project stakeholders
Coordinating the work of 3rd party Quality Assurance teams
Perform quality and testing audits across the various IT functions to ensure quality and testing standards, procedures and methodologies are being followed properly and consistently
Identify, recommend, and implement process improvement opportunities for SGWS quality assurance programs
Review 3rd party testing programs to ensure quality and compliance standards with SGWS practices
Understand various programming languages (ABAP, Java, C#, Perl, Python, etc.) and deployment tools such as Turnover, QGM/Solution Manager, as well as DevOps and CI/CD practices
Identify test data requirements and work with other teams as needed to create and maintain test data
Execute tests, both manual and automated, including documentation of test results and defects, assist in defect troubleshooting and resolution
Additional Primary Responsibilities
Assist in the implementation and maintenance of software testing tools
Create, run, and maintain reports to measure and track testing metrics
Participate in test automation, including framework design, script development and maintenance
Stay up-to-date on software application testing tools and QA best practices
Deliver quality and testing process training to IT staff and project teams
Perform quality and testing audits across the various IT functions to ensure quality and testing standards, procedures and methodologies are being followed properly and consistently
Coach others, mentor peers to help them build capabilities
Improve the efficiency of QA team, mitigate team conflicts and communication problems
Motivate team members to work collaboratively and effectively
Plan and document succession planning within scope of responsibility
Report HP ALM QA metrics and testing status to project and application team members
Support integration testing cycles through performing test scripts, coaching SAP super users and possible defect resolution

Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor s Degree (computer science, information systems, business administration or other industry related curriculum) or combination of education and equivalent experience
4 plus years serving as a Quality Assurance Analyst or business analyst
2 plus years experience with QA Testing tools such as Talend Data Quality, QuerySurge, Informatica, IBM InfoShere or similar Data Services QA testing tools
4 plus years strong SQL skills
Understanding of cloud technologies like Azure or AWS
Experience in Microfocus ALM or Microsoft TFS or Version One management tools
Understanding of Application Programming Interface (API) along with mutli-system integrations
4 plus years experience in testing Data Warehouse technologies, Tableau and Business Objects reporting tools
Strong team player with willingness to collaborate
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong capability to execute tasks with quality
Proficient oral and written communication skills
Good time management skills (i.e. works efficiently)
Strong attention to detail
Strong decision-making skills
Experience executing a testing with large-scale platforms (SAP, JDA, etc.)
Experience working with automated testing tools
Experience coordinating and scheduling testing teams
Expertise with software application test planning, execution and related testing tools
Experience working with testing teams that are located offshore
Ability to demonstrate Agile delivery values
Agile Delivery Values
Openness Team and stakeholders agree to be open about all work and challenges
Commitment Personally commit to achieving the goals of the team
Respect Respect your team members to be capable and independent
Courage You have courage to do the right thing and work on tough problems
Focus Everyone focus on the work in the sprint and the goal of the scrum team. Rise and fall as a team
Preferred Qualifications
Masters Degree
Experience executing a testing with large-scale platforms (SAP, JDA, etc.)
Experience with automated testing tools
Experience coordinating and scheduling testing teams
Experience working with testing teams that are located offshore
Experience evaluating and improving QA practices and processes
Experience interacting with Business team members during a testing program
Experience working with third-party Quality Assurance teams
Experience executing the regression and performance testing for packaged releases on a defined scheduled timeline coordinating the scheduling and resources
Experience coordinating and scheduling testing teams
Experience working with testing teams that are located offshore
Experience evaluating and improving QA practices and processes
Experience interacting and leading Business team members during a testing program
Experience working with, and directing, third-party Quality Assurance teams