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*Please let me now if you find yourself interested for the below job opening, please share resume in word format:* *Job Title: Principal Test Architect * *Location: St. Louis, MO* *Duration: Long term* *If you do not find yourself interested, then please refer a good qualified candidate, we provide referral of $2000. * *JOB SUMMARY* Responsible for overseeing multiple testing efforts within a program. Provides technical leadership, guidance, and support in formulating strategic testing approaches for programs of high complexity with one or more development environments. Communicates progress through preparing reports and facilitating meetings with senior management and cross functional teams. Identifies and communicates risks associated with test execution, technologies, approaches, and status. Serves as a point of escalation, review and approval for key issues/decisions. Assists in analyzing and recommending alternative solutions, methodologies, strategies and tools to solve complex problems. Works on multiple programs/systems as a key project team member. Considered to be a technical subject matter expert on one or multiple applications. *MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES * Review functional requirements and design specifications to ensure full understanding of deliverables and advises the team on improvements. Interact and consult with business analyst, project managers, and developers, to understand applications, requirements and architecture. Collaborate with management to define and develop technical strategy, standards, roadmaps and practices. Provides leadership to the testing project team for integration, system, functional, regression, and performance testing efforts. Ensure that projects follow the prescribed lifecycle and meet quality standards. Assists in analyzing and recommending alternative solutions, methodologies, strategies and tools to solve complex problems. Troubleshoots technical issues that arise during testing. Escalates technical issues to the appropriate cross functional teams. Follows up on speedy resolution of technical constraints that may cause a delay in test execution. Identifies and communicates risks associated with test execution, technologies, approaches, and status to the project team and Sr. management as appropriate. Identify potential quality issues per defined process and escalate immediately to management. Maintains an overall view of multiple projects tested within in a program. Assists in managing deployments into test environments. Assists the test manager in estimating test effort duration and required number of resources. Participate in setting up criteria for successful configuration of test environments. Hold and facilitate test plan / test case reviews with cross-functional team members. Ensure that validated deliverables meet functional and design specifications and requirements. Provides support to the Test Lead by assigning tasks to Testers, troubleshooting, and training. Guides test data strategy, test data management, test data planning and execution. Break down large complex testing efforts into independent or interdependent overlapping efforts and drive optimal test schedule. Communicate and collaborate closely with developers, business analysts and internal stakeholders to provide guidance towards resolving issues. Isolate, replicate, and report defects and verify defect fixes. Effectively prepare and communicate project status report and management review reports. Train team members on the process and systems they support. Offer creative solutions to complex issues. Supports test initiatives that are facilitated by non-IT teams (UAT, ORT) to ensure quality standards, procedures and methodologies are being followed. Supports team in tracking, monitoring and approving code releases into test environments. *REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS* Skills/Abilities and Knowledge Strong communicator (Written and Verbal): Ability to read, write, speak and understand English Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables Critical thinker, ability to negoiate with key stakeholders and maintain positive attitude Self starter, self motivated, driven individual Creative solving of technical problems to ensure the ability to translate technical requirements into test plans Ability to work well with shifting priorities Ability to work with cross-functional team of internal and external resouces located onshore and offshore 10 + years of relevant QA technical experience, system development, testing, or architecture Strong understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) Thorough understanding of test metrics Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, Visio, Access, Powerpoint, Access) Display professional, positive, and approachable attitude/demeanor and discretion Strong analysis experience Proficent in using HP Quality Center Tools Education BA/BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent work experience Testing Certification ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst (Preferred) PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS *Skills/Abilities and Knowledge* Experience in managing teams Project coordination/Project management experience Understanding of test automation framework and tools. 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