What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Analysts – Cognos Reporting position at Atria Group LLC?
Company Description
We specialize in Staffing, Consulting, Software Development, and Training along with IT services to small to medium size companies. AG's primary objective is to help companies maximize their IT resources and meet the ever-changing IT needs and challenges.
In addition, AG offers enterprise resource planning and enterprise application integration, supply-chain management, e-commerce solutions, and B2B public exchanges and B2B process integration solutions. Our company provides application analysis, design, development and programming, software engineering, systems development, testing, integration, and implementation, and management consulting services to various clients – including governmental agencies and private companies – throughout the United States and India.
We provide these services in multiple computing environments and use technologies such as client/server architecture, object-oriented programming languages and tools, distributed database management systems, state-of-the-art networking, and communications infrastructures. Our honest and realistic approach to recruiting dictates that AG does not entice or lure engineers from their employers. We represent only high caliber technical professionals who have committed to making a change required by career.
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Work concurrently on several projects, each with specific instructions that may differ from project to project
- Ensure that quality processes are carried out through all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle
- Develop and implement efficient and effective testing strategy, test conditions and test scripts
- Ability to develop database testing queries using complex SQL.
- Ability to test reports built on Cognos / SSRS per business requirements.
- Work closely with the Business and Developers to test the business critical functionality of the reports.
- Partner with the Business and the Development Teams to fix defects.
- Ability to test the flow of data between the databases and the reports.
- Work with project team to identify risks if quality assurance process is not followed
- Own and manage test environments and processes.
- Reporting, tracking and resolving quality issues.
- Understand mapping specifications and to build test cases based on the business requirements.
Required skills:
Software:
- HP- Application Lifecycle Management (Quality Center)
- SQL (SQL Server And Teradata)
- Relational Database and ETL
- BI-Reporting (Cognos)
- Cubes testing
Skills:
- 6 years of Quality Assurance/Testing experience
- 4 years of relational database experience
- 2 years of backend testing using complex SQL scripts
- 2 years of testing cubes.
- Understanding of all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle
Nice To Have
- Experience with Relational Databases, MS SQL Server/Teradata
- Healthcare Industry experience
- Experience with Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies, including hybrid approaches
Additional Information
- Good comm skills are a big priority
- Duration: 6 month contract
- GC's & USC's only
