Client: SEI Investments
Title: QA/BA
Location: Oaks, PA (must sit on-site 2 days' per week)
Duration: Long-Term Contact (multi-year)
Interview Process: 2 steps with client (both via video)
Manager Notes
- BA QA on the special assets team. Loans, stocks, hedge fund. This team owns a ton of code.
- Must have a financial services BG
- Responsible for talking with the product manager and client.
- Must have experience with PL/SQL to query database
- 66% testing 33% BA
- Long term this person could grow into a PO.
- Can come from a QA background and learn some of the BA work if they have strong communication skills
Responsibilities include:
- Active participation on a Scrum Team following all facets of the Agile Delivery Process.
- Establish relationships within the internal and external business community.
- Work with development project teams with to user stories, quality assurance acceptance criteria, and product rollout.
- Both independently and as a member of design team complete assignments of moderate to high complexity and risk.
- Proactively recommend innovations and modifications that are in compliance with industry requirements and are consistent with corporate objectives and goals to improve operational processes, systems, policies and procedures.
- Interaction with prospects, clients and industry representatives in gathering business requirements and ensure that end deliverables meet original client needs.
- Review, analyze, evaluate and recommend business systems, component applications and user needs.
- Document/communicate key decisions, open issues, case studies, workflow and functional requirements.
- Support scrum masters, product owners and senior level analysts on various projects.
- Drive quality assurance with creation and execution of acceptance tests as needed.
Required:
- Ability to work comfortably with a wide range of people and skill sets, including architects, project managers, analysts, designers and developers
- Knowledgeable in business domain (desirable to have a background in Business Analysis)
- Detail oriented with the ability to organize and prioritize tasks to ensure timely delivery of the Sprints/PSI's.
- Strong Process orientation
- Understanding of Agile principals and the ability to learn the foundations of SAFe.
- Experience with iterative development processes, quality and testing best practices.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Grasp of good user experience design principles and business trade-offs
- Direct experience eliciting and articulating business requirements, writing and executing user based test cases in the context of agile development.
- Experience interfacing with management and external clients
- Desire to work collaboratively with the all Agile teams and their stakeholders
- Ability to be decisive and say "no" when protecting committed Objectives
- Understand overall vision and how Product fits with that vision
- Proven decision-making and problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills, including understanding of technical writing requirements
Required Skills : Manager Notes BA QA on the special assets team. Loans, stocks, hedge fund. This team owns a ton of code. Must have a financial services BG Responsible for talking with the product manager and client. Must have experience with PL/SQL to query database 66% testing 33% BA Long term this person could grow into a PO. Can come from a QA background and learn some of the BA work if they have strong communication skills
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills : Long Term open ended, multi-year contract
Background Check :Yes
Notes :Must sit on-site 2 days' per week!
Selling points for candidate :Long Term open ended, multi-year contract
Project Verification Info :Exhibit A Client letter with up to 3 years language SOW?PO
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :No
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set :Yes
Type of project :Other Project Type
Master Job Title :QA/SW Tester
Branch Code :Philadelphia