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What are Quality Assurance Jobs?

Need information management quality assurance jobs and want some practical suggestions about responsibilities, qualifications and salaries?

Quality assurance (QA) testing is a critical part of information management.Quality Assurance Jobs It requires the following roles:

Test Lead

The QA test lead is responsible for quality assurance testing the entire solution to ensure that it is ready for user acceptance testing. Responsibilities include ensuring that the following tasks are completed:
  • Formulate test data strategy;
  • Complete test data acquisition and baseline all test data;
  • Create test environments;
  • Document test cases;
  • Create and validate test scripts;
  • Specify and conduct reconciliation tests to manually confirm the validity of data;
  • Conduct regression testing to ensure that the new software does not cause problems with existing software;
  • Complete performance testing to ensure that data can be loaded in the available “load window”;
  • Complete security testing;
  • Test load manager process;
  • Test warehouse manager process;
  • Test infrastructure and operations components;
  • Conduct user acceptance testing to ensure that business intelligence reports work as intended;
  • Carefully manage scope to ensure that perceived defects are actually requirement defects and not something that would be “nice to have but we forgot to ask”; and
  • Ensure ongoing defect management and reporting.
The test lead is also responsible for ensuring that test entrance/exit criteria are documented (in conjunction with the technical lead or project manager)

Software tester

The QA software tester is responsible for:
  • Creating QA test cases;
  • Documenting test steps;
  • Executing test scripts to validate test results;
  • Documenting all test results; and
  • Identifying QA test defects.
What qualifications are required?

The quality assurance team should have experience with data warehouse software testing procedures and the test software selected for the project.

Software testers should also be experienced with database development tools and/or programming techniques such as SQL.

Much of the technical testing such as load manager testing will require significant input from the ETL development team.

What are salaries expectations?

Experienced software testers with 3-5 years of related data warehousing experience should expect to earn $45,000-70,000.

What are contract employee salary expectations?

Contract employees can expect to earn anywhere from $40 to $60 per hour. However, this is the amount that is paid to a staffing company. The amount the contract employee receives will depend upon the fee demanded by the resource-staffing firm.

Can this work be done part time?

Quality assurance environments are usually “locked down” which presents challenges for remote access---Quality assurance testers are required full time during the quality assurance phase.

This role is not a part time project role but it is a good candidate for contract employees and offshore QA testing.

Summary…

Information management projects are data centric and require highly skilled IT specialists to fill quality assurance jobs. Much of this work is technical and requires input from the ETL development team.


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