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Hi,

We have the following position. Please reply me with your updated resume with contact details if you are interested in applying for this position.

TITLE:                    QA LEAD WITH APPWAY VERMILLION

LOCATION:         BOSTON – MA

DURATION :       6+Months

Description

Manulife's Investment Division is a leading global investment manager with offices in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Hong Kong, and throughout Asia.  We manage a broad range of investments including equities, government and corporate bonds, real estate, commercial mortgages, oil and gas reserves, timber, agriculture and structured products totaling more C$900B in assets under management.

You will be joining a large, global team focused on helping our business partners consolidate their processes around the world.   Our program, called Global Optimization, will touch many of our investments processes and supporting systems from the Front Office, the Middle Office, Back Office Operations as well as our Performance and Analytics teams.  You will be working within a team of business experts, application experts, project managers, and testers co-located in one of our collaborative workspaces in North America. 

We are seeking an individual with 5 plus years' experience as a Quality Assurance Lead for the following:

Responsibilities

•                    Drive implementation of test process, and tools for a new Client Reporting and Client Lifecycle Management vendor software implementation including test strategies and test plans.

•                    Lead manual & automated testing activities supporting  integrated  systems development teams

•                    Construct test environments for execution across multiple test instances and projects.

•                    Lead defect analysis/reporting, prepare test scenarios and scripts, and defect tracking system.

•                    Provide timely and succinct project information to stakeholders to include: test planning and execution status, defect reporting, and ensure appropriate escalation of issues.

•                    Provide input for systems release readiness reviews, change management/milestone reviews, and business Go/No-Go decision gates.

Requirements

•                    Experience with Waterfall, Agile, Iterative development and testing methodologies.

•                    Investments Industry knowledge, particularly with Front, Middle and Back Office.

•                    Self-starter with ability to work independently and work with remote teams in different locations.

•                    Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional and cross-application work streams toward testing task completion.

•                    Interact with the BA's, Developers and PMs to contribute to the delivery of the project schedule by preparing test estimates and test deliverables.

•                    Review and analyze the business requirements and specifications to validate the testability and identify the testing requirements.

•                    Develop test strategies and plans for all projects and releases.

•                    Ensure completion of all required test documentation including test scripts/cases, traceability matrixes, test schedule, test results and test status.

•                    Manage onshore and offshore test resources and multiple tasks and changing prioritizations.

•                    Support User Acceptance Testing

•                    Experienced with Jira, SQL and Beyond Compare applications

•                    Excellent management,  written and verbal communication, and organizational skills.

•                    Experience with Vermilion or other client reporting and communications software; experience with Vermilion implementation is a plus.

•                    Experience with Appway or other Client Lifecycle Management (Onboarding) software; experience with Appway implementation is a plus.

Education:

•                    Formal training in project and QA management practices preferred.

•                    Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or 5 years plus QA Lead experience is required.

Thanks & Regards

Stella Mathew 

Insoursys Inc

Ph: 972-427-1713