Description
Job Title: QA Advisor
Duration: 6 months
Daily Rate: 420 EUR
Location: Amsterdam
The key responsibilities of the QA Advisor are:
- Quality Assurance, including coordination and supervision of testing services of all changes and new development in the application life cycle management
- Quality Review and acceptance of testing deliverables provided by the service provider as described in the Application Center Framework (ACF)
- Coordination of Business Acceptance Test (BAT) and/or execution of BAT on behalf of the business
- 2nd level support for business applications
- Supporting the Incident, Problem and Change Management activities for business applications
- Reports to Application Center Manager
The Advisor will be expected to
- Design, creation and execution of sample functional and regression tests to validate quality of deliveries from service provider
- Lead in the development and use of standards and best practices for test and test documentation (plan, scripts and reports) in consultation with service provider
- Verification that business requirements are met by reviewing test scripts delivered and/or maintained by service provider
- Raise defects on behalf of the Business and co-ordinate with in-house and off shore teams for timely resolution
- Definition and use of templates and guidelines in supporting QA tools
- Leading the acceptance of functional, regression and performance tests conducted by the service provider
- Leading on approaches to the test coordination role
- Alignment and verification of automated testing activities by the service provider
- Support of ITS work programme
- Monitoring of progress, quality and efficiency of test activities performed by service provider
- Review and approval of test results executed by service provider
- Good and proven communicator to explain and achieve team objectives
- Takes full responsibility for own personal development of skills and competencies and provides guidance to other team members
- Planning and co-ordination of work for own and team assignments
- Moderate SQL knowledge
- Usage of QA supporting tools like TOAD & HP ALM/Quality Center
- Promoting and advancing a customer focus within QA
Key Skills
- Thorough multiple Business Application knowledge
- Strong Interpersonal skills
- Ability to challenge views and opinions in pursuance of assuring the quality of ITS deliverables
- Team Player who can work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Good pro-active customer orientation and able to influence and be an ambassador for ITS
- Excellent knowledge of the business end-to-end processes/procedures
- Applies and promotes principle of 'risk based testing' within the projects, changes and incidents
- Promotes network within all areas of ITS and business where necessary and beyond
- Excellent communication and ability to translate complex IT issues into business language
- Keep up to date with key industry advances and new technology and promote opportunities
- Provides technical support to management
- Target-driven and results oriented
- Highly motivated to succeed
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