The University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) is seeking an experienced information technology professional to provide technical leadership to our software quality assurance team. While the QA team will have a role with all software development at UCHC, its current primary focus will be to support the installation of the financial and human resources modules of the SunGard Banner administrative suite of systems, a large, multi-year application implementation effort. This position will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and leading the quality assurance testing effort of this project. A major aspect of this effort will be the validation of data migrated to Banner from existing applications.

A minimum of eight (8) years experience of progressively complex programming, systems analysis, and design experience or data management experience in a multi-platform environment.

A Bachelor’s Degree in information systems management, engineering, or closely related field may be substituted for four (4) years of the general experience requirement.

The following specific requirements are preferred:

• at least three (3) years experience directly leading the quality assurance aspects of large-scale systems projects;


• experience with financial systems implementations, with human resources systems implementations, or with the Banner administrative suite of applications;


• experience developing testing strategies from scratch for large-scale systems projects;


• experience with HP Quality Center or similar quality management software;


• experience with application integration, data migration, and data reconciliation;


• experience with Oracle enterprise-class database environments;


• experience leading technical staff in a matriced, cross-functional environment;


• CSQE or similar software quality-related certification.

Demonstrated technical and leadership skills, such as:

• considerable knowledge of the principles of application development and systems integration;


• demonstrated knowledge and understanding of internet tools and technologies, including principles of web application development; expert knowledge of the principles of client/server development;


• ability to define strategies and plans for influencing multiple decision makers;


• experienced in facilitating sessions that address complex or highly sensitive issues;


• understands and can explain the interrelationship of multiple concepts, and translates these concepts, ideas, and situations into clear, understandable, and simple terms;


• effective communication and interpersonal skills;


• knowledge of project management tools with proficiency in their use;


• supervisory ability.

• manage all aspects of quality assurance testing for the Banner implementation; this includes but is not limited to:


• working closely with project managers and other key project stakeholders to create an end-to-end testing strategy, incorporating requirements for unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and regression testing;


• creating a project plan that outlines requirements, resources, and anticipated timeframes to support the strategy; enforcing schedules, deadlines, and standards for testing activities; establishing contingency plans


• facilitating meetings and other discussion with business customers and others to help guide them through the project testing process;


• having a lead role in the selection, implementation, and adoption of enterprise-class quality management and testing software for use with the Banner project;


• managing the establishment of test cases across all testing phases;


• implementing policies and procedures to assess the value of automated vs. manual testing for particular test cases;


• developing a defect management process, including the creation of metrics;


• validating final testing results;


• communicating with IT team members, customers, and partners to keep everyone properly informed about the progress of testing for the project; this may include presentations to various audiences as needed.


• be the hands-on leader of the software quality assurance team, with duties including but not limited to:




1. working with IT management to develop guidelines and standards for end-to-end software quality assurance practices, such as for testing, change management, and release management, among others;


2. implementing and enforcing those guidelines and standards across the IT organization;


3. providing technical leadership to members of the quality assurance team – including mentoring and coaching of less-experienced personnel;


4. scheduling, assigning, overseeing, and reviewing the work of assigned staff;


5. conducting employee performance evaluations and reviews;


6. contributing to preparation of the unit’s budget, subject to administrative and management review.

SCHEDULE: 40 hours weekly, generally 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday - Friday. Flexibility to accommodate departmental needs.

If you are interested in this position then you will love our extraordinary benefits package!  We offer very competitive benefits that includes comprehensive medical and dental plans, a choice between a defined contribution retirement plan with a state match or defined pension plan, tuition reimbursement, tuition waiver for dependent children attending UCONN, and paid vacation, holiday and sick leave.

Interested candidates should apply on-line at  https://jobs .uchc.edu/  and reference Job Search Code: 2010-436.

The University of Connecticut Health Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer (M/F/V/PwD)