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Title QA Architect
Categories Analyst, Data Warehouse / BI, Design, Project / Program Management, QA / Test
Salary Market
Location Bellevue, WA
Job Information

Our client located in downtown Bellevue, WA has an immediate need for a expert level senior QA Architect for a full-time employment opportunity. Responsibilities:

  • Spearhead design/development/usage of Automation framework.
  • Develop test patterns to evaluate the solutions for performance, scalability, resilience and reliability
  • Contribute to the quality of the solutions by identifying issues in architecture/design and implementation
  • Demonstrate technical leadership and provide mentoring to fellow team members
  • Suggest and influence process improvements and act as a change agent for the organization
  • Work closely with the development and product management teams to ensure that the architecture/design honors testability, reliability, scalability and performance.
  • Continuously increase the coverage and complexity of functional test cases using Java (TestNG, JUnit) and/or scripting languages (Python, etc.)
  • Design and develop provide hands-on leadership for a fully automated suite of performance, scalability, load, stress, user experience testing.
  • Manage and maintain the Continuous Integration server (Hudson experience is a plus)

Required skills:

  • Demonstrated a high level of productivity, responsibility, and influence in previous positions
  • Strong analytical thinking, logical reasoning, problem recognition, and problem resolution skills
  • Excellent oral and written communication and personal/interpersonal skills
  • 5+ years of quality assurance experience with proven ability to automate functional, stress, and volume test cases
  • 2+ years of test automation experience in Java (TestNG, Junit)
  • 5+ years of experience in developing back-end automation (API/Web Services testing – REST) test suites
  • Solid experience with Distributed systems (Hadoop/Cassandra/Solr/Lucene a plus)
  • Strong understanding of software development life cycle
  • Highly detail-oriented
  • Excellent time management

Desired skills:

  • Experience with large data processing environments
  • Experience in building a Cloud test platform (EC2 experience a plus)
  • Strong knowledge of browser technologies (HTML 5.0, Javascript, XML, CSS)
  • Strong knowledge of JMX based technologies
  • Good balance of open source and commercial platform experience
  • Knowledge of code and memory profiling tools for Java
  • Experience working in an Agile environment
  • Knowledge of Hadoop, Cassandra, Solr/Lucene, Zookeeper, ActiveMQ
  • Knowledge of Vmware or other Virtualization solutions
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Title Technical Project Manager
Categories Analyst, Project / Program Management, QA / Test
Salary Market
Location Renton, WA
Job Information

Overview:

Working with the Senior Project Manager (SPM), the Functional Project Manager (FPM) will be responsible for coordinating the efforts of multiple work groups (internal groups, client groups and contracted groups) to accomplish the stated project objectives and manage stakeholder expectations. The FPM will monitor and maintain the progress and mutual interaction of all parties so as to minimize risks to the project objectives, maximize benefits to client and to the company, and restrict costs. The FPM is accountable for ensuring that everyone on the team knows and executes his/her role, feels empowered and supported in the role, knows the roles of the other team members and acts upon the belief that those roles will be performed. The FPM will maintain communication and reporting to ensure the SPM and primary stakeholders are kept abreast of project developments, and bring to attention any milestones or objectives that are at risk.

Responsibilities:

  • Assist SPM with developing and refining the project plan.
  • Creating and/or maintaining documentation, forecasting, and communication tools.
  • Creating testing procedures for various work processes and technical functions.
  • Effectively apply existing methodologies and enforce project standards, while making recommendations for enhancements.
  • Facilitate group meetings to monitor progress and ensure quality communication.
  • Monitor and manage project schedule and milestones.
  • Carefully review deliverables prepared by our team before forwarding to client.
  • Monitor, manage and report to SPM any conflicts or risk to objectives.
  • Assist with financial forecasting, and monitor adherence to budgets.

Professional Competencies:

Technical

  • PMP certification highly preferable.
  • Documented experience with IT projects with a scope of at least $1 million.  Experience with healthcare IT projects in particular is highly preferable.
  • Familiarity with relational databases, GUI applications, and integrated system design.
  • Understand basic revenue models, P&L, and cost-to-completion projections, and make decisions accordingly.
  • Strong experience with project management software. Experience with Clarizen highly preferable.

Communication/Leadership

  • Able to articulate well and convey complex ideas with clarity, professionalism and composure.
  • Understand how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.
  • Deliver engaging, informative and well-organized written and oral presentations.
  • Encourages and motivates all team members.
  • Resolves/escalates issues in a timely fashion.
  • Tracks and shares lesson learned.
  • Develops lasting relationships with clients that foster future ties and opportunities.
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Title Sr. .Net Developer
Categories Analyst, Design, Development, General
Salary Market
Location Kent, WA
Job Information

Our direct client located in Kent, WA has an immediate need for a fulltime Senior .Net Developer to join their team.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Contribute and adhere to a consistent set of standards across the company for application architecture, design and software development methodology.
  • Drive software development efforts including analysis, design, build, test and configuration of the developed code.
  • Ensure best practice development methodologies, tools, and techniques are identified and employed.
  • Provide technical leadership that allows the team to expand their technical skills, understanding of, methods, and development toolsets.
  • Design, code, integrate, test, and debug application software.
  • Employ application integration middleware and best-practices to realize an enterprise architecture that fosters business agility through attributes such as service-orientation, loose-coupling, abstraction, orchestration, composite applications, etc.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Seasoned developer with excellent programming abilities utilizing the standard Microsoft development suite (Visual Studio, TFS, ASP.NET, C#, AJAX/jQuery, MS SQL Server (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), XML), with a minimum of five (5) years of development experience.
  • Experience in a global company with multiple remote locations is highly desirable.
  • Seasoned experience with both back office business application development and customer facing e-commerce solutions.
  • Solid understanding of modern application architectures, development methodologies and tools is required.
  • Expertise in the design, development and deployment of enterprise-level N-tier applications on the MS .NET platforms is needed.
  • Experience with concepts, design patterns, tools, and platforms that involve standard Microsoft development solutions.
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Title System / Network Engineer
Categories Analyst, Engineering, General, Infrastructure, Security, System / Network Admin
Salary Market
Location Tukwila, WA
Job Information

Are you ready to join the revolution! Our client located in Tukwila, WA is one of the fastest growing technology companies in the United States and is seeking a Systems Engineer.

 

Job Summary:

The Systems Engineer will be a member of the team responsible for supporting the hardware and software infrastructure for their corporate office. The Systems Engineer is responsible for but not limited to: setup and daily maintenance of dedicated and pooled hosted environments, administration of all Windows systems, administration of all components of the network and storage tiers, system design documentation and assessment of new technologies.

 

Job Duties:

  • Tuning the operating systems and virtual machines for optimum performance.
  • Reviewing existing processes and recommending changes or instituting new processes as necessary, including the areas of monitoring, upgrades, and tuning.
  • Participate in application customization discussions and technical implementations.
  • Generate high-quality project documentation, such as architecture designs, implementation plans, design documents, test plans, etc.
  • Provide documentation, training and technical escalation applicable for day-to-day administration and change requests for Web servers, Utility servers, Batch servers, Database servers including the following: build/rebuild requests, event log monitoring and review, performance analysis, hardware performance monitoring (MOM, etc.), customer derived issues, purchase needs analysis, disk backup processing and domain management
  • Research ROI factors and manage projects related to systems including application upgrades and data center changes/moves.
  • Provide physical support and troubleshooting for the maintenance of switches and firewalls including cable management.
  • Document maintenance activities, failure analysis results, incident reports, penetration analysis, audit results and activities related to management of small-scale projects.
  • Provide technical escalation and be on call via pager during designated periods.
  • Diagnosing, as appropriate, complex systems issues with multiple influencing factors which may require interaction with vendors to resolve problems.

 

Qualifications:

  1. 5-7 years in a technically related field.
  2. Bachelor Science degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent years of work experience.
  3. Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining system infrastructure components.
  4. Expertise in Win2000/2003/2008 Servers and services like Active Directory/DNS/WLBS.
  5. Expertise in MS SQL Server 2005/MS SQL Server 2008, including SQL Server operations, configuration and tuning, backup and recovery, transaction log management, cluster configuration, maintenance, performance tuning, indexes, and SQL query optimization.
  6. Excellent Troubleshooting and Debugging skills for the Microsoft Platform (including IIS & SQL Server) & applications built on the Microsoft stack.
  7. Excellent knowledge of VMWare ESX 3.5 and 4.0.
  8. Strong technical knowledge of Exchange Server.
  9. Knowledge of Networking and Hardware Standards, including TCP/IP, firewalls, switches, routers, V-LANs, NAS, SANS, DNS, Communications, Sockets, Active Directory, and load balancers.
  10. Solid understanding of security concepts, principles and practices, including fundamental knowledge of OSI model.
  11. Knowledge of Windows Terminal Server.
  12. MCSE / MCITP/ MCSA certification preferred.
  13. Experience in cable management techniques.
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Title Business Analyst
Categories Analyst, General
Salary Market
Location Mercer Island, WA
Job Information

We are looking for a talented IT Business Analyst for our client located on Mercer Island, WA.  You will be joining a dynamic team working on a large system implementation project.

Job Summary:

  • Serves as a liaison between the Business and IT to provide solution to their business needs
  • Understands customers’ objectives, processes, and products as well as the business systems capabilities
  • Supports users in building business case, including cost/benefit analysis, risk assessment, and project scope
  • Performs impact analysis and supports development of effort/cost estimates
  • Develops and documents functional specifications
  • Supports application testing, implementation, and training activities

 Experience Requirements:

  • 4 year as an IT Business Analyst Level
  • Excellent knowledge of SDLC
  • Experienced with writing use cases
  • Application and UAT testing experience
  • Excellent written and oral skills in local language
  • Able to take part in meetings and discussions and give information about own area of expertise, able to compose memos, simple letters and short texts.
  • May require occasional traveling
  • Bachelors degree or equivalent
  • Insurance industry experience is a plus

 Essential Job Functions:

  • Performs impact analysis of application changes across various components, holding an end-to-end view of the system
  • Defines project scope
  • Develops functional specifications
  • Prepares Preliminary Systems Design document
  • Understands customers objectives, processes, and products in order to make educated recommendations
  • Acts as liaison between Business and IT, as assigned Supports the Application Subject Matter Experts in development of estimates / validation of suppliers# estimates Supports application testing, implementation, and training activities
  • Performs quality review checks on project deliverables
  • Supports users in building Business Case, including cost / benefit analysis, risk assessment, project scope, and development of a high level plan Drives day-to-day prioritization of work on capabilities, working with business
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