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Position below……….. Send me profiles : arj...@usmystems.com *Face to Face Interview* *Role : Operational Acceptance Test Lead* *Location: Reston, VA* *Duration : 6+months * Position Description: The Operations Acceptance Test Lead is responsible for ensuring the successful completion of all Operational Acceptance testing and risk assessment activities, end to end validation of all code, infrastructure component deliveries, and significant process changes to The College Board and major vendor production environments. This position collaborates in the development of master test plans, scheduling testing activities, manages test teams, and coordinates cross-operations risk assessment activities. Additionally, this role coordinates the set-up and configuration of testing environments and works with other test teams to identify and resolve defects. The role provides leadership to technical and business staff members to improve productivity and quality measures associated with the testing process. This person will analyze test data to provide status reports and for making process improvement recommendations. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES Test Management: • Coordinates all Operational Acceptance testing activities (i.e. functional, end-to-end regression, integration and UAT) including supervising testers during the execution of test scripts, ensuring necessary participation from the user community, reviewing test results and managing the defect resolution process. Lead may be required to participate in testing activities or perform some of the required technical activities. • Ensures coordination with external vendors and internal Business Process Owners (BPO’s) for scheduling tests. Reports test results and milestones throughout the release test cycles. • Manages the set-up and configuration of test environments and establishes procedures for maintaining those environments. • Starting from functional and non-functional requirements, the Test Lead will demonstrate the capability to build a high-level test plan and strategy, and then layer in detailed test scenarios that are grouped together logically to inform the mid-level test plan, and finally monitor and control the test execution phase through status reporting. The test lead will also disposition defects and report on the relative riskiness of the software for the target deployment date. Quality Assurance/Process Improvement: • Develop testing standards and best practices for establishing a continuous improvement program. • Provide leadership and guidance in the development of a compilation of best practices for achieving better than satisfactory results throughout the testing cycle. • Develop test plans based on established standards and best practices. • Provide reporting of quality metrics throughout the test phase of all releases. Quality Control: • Serve as representative to the IT development organization for development efforts related to vendor data flows and operational data quality. • Work with business process owners, vendors, and IT staff to ensure that data quality requirements are well understood and documented including field level business semantics for data in operational databases, requirements and business rules for data validation, requirements for data retention MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS • BS Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Web Systems or other related degree Master’s degree preferred • 7+ years direct experience in design, development, test and implementation of software • 5-7 years managing test resources of various skill-sets and experience throughout the entire software development life-cycle • Demonstrated knowledge of software engineering principles and practices (e.g., ITIL, TQM, ISO, SIX SIGMA and CMM/I) • Knowledge of broadly accepted delivery life cycle methodologies as it pertains to managing project deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle especially as it pertains to testing. • *Experience leading automation initiatives for development of software applications* *• Experience in creative problem solving* *• Experience in strategic planning* *• Experience in project planning, project management, risk management, and critical path scheduling* *Programming and scripting experience* *• Experience with formal automation tools and methodologies and systems/software* Related Skills & Other Requirements: • Strategic business management and organizational planning skills, short-and long-term operations planning skills, skill in examining and re-engineering operations and procedures, formulating policy, and developing and implementing new strategies and procedures. • Ability to build relationships, and foster a cooperative work environment with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community, ability to build consensus and to work through others in achieving desired results and objectives. • Well-developed verbal and written communication, interpersonal, analytical, decision-making, problem solving, project management, negotiation and customer service skills. • Consistent ability to set and deliver against a work plan in a fast-paced environment, giving attention to detail even under high pressure situations. • Excellent organizational and computer skills, strong word processing, database management and spreadsheet skills, preferably with MS Office. • Ability to work closely with highly-technical IT infrastructure staff Ability to communicate complex issues and drive to resolution • Ability to manage relationships with multiple levels of management • Highly collaborative individual with ability to influence others and build strong professional relationships • Flexibility and desire to quickly adapt to new methods, situations, and various requirements • Strong analytical thinking and structured problem solving ability • Excellent communication (writing, speaking, presentation) • Strong interpersonal skills • Computer literacy, including Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Project, Powerpoint, Access) • High degree of comfort with IT artifacts and terminology (e.g. E-R diagrams, data dictionaries, interface specifications, use cases) • Solid organizational, time & task management skills • Ability to effectively handle multiple situations simultaneously • Ability to work independently and as part of a team *Thanks & Regards* *ARJUN * 14175 Sullyfield Circle, Suite # 400,Chantilly, VA 20151, U.S.A Email: *arj...@usmsystems.com <arj...@usmsystems.com>* , Phone: *703-880-4177* Skype: *arjunk_usm* ISO 9001 ,ISO 20000, CMMI Level 3 Certified Company Ranked No.7 in the Washington DC area-*Washington Business Journal, 2013;* Smart CEO Award Winner By SMART CEO Magazine, Baltimore, U.S.A; *Inc5000* *Recognized Fastest growing private company in U.S.A. **www.usmsystems.com* <http://www.usmsystems.com/>*, * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SAP BASIS" group. 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