Opportunity for Quality Assurance Migration Analyst!

We have a rather different opportunity available right now for an individual to help manage the migration of new code and new programs from the test to the acceptance to the production environment. The formal job announcement is below but in talking with the hiring manager, Stewart, I found he is looking for someone with strong related technical skills as well as the ability to interact very effectively with other team members and customers. This position does work occasional nights and weekends as items are migrated and this position is also on-call on a rotating basis with other members of the team. If you have the skills listed below we would love to hear from you!

Quality Assurance/Migration Analyst

Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance, is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance/Migration Analyst who’s primary responsibility is to maintain version control while working with developers to implement all changes and maintain the turnover process of programs and procedures from the test environment to production. Among the key duties are:

• Design, manage and optimize daily batch processes.
• Update and maintain Designer with all table modifications, new tables, views, sequences and generating the appropriate ddl's.
• Apply all changes to the Acceptance database for user testing.
• Maintaining and administering Mitigation of Objects.
• Coordinating moving of modules and insuring that the proper versions are moved.
• Promote all objects to appropriate environment and ensure that all invalid objects are recompiled.
• Work closely with the developers to implement their projects into Acceptance database and ensure that everything is production ready.
• Communicate with Database Administrators when changes are ready for production and the proper sequence for the changes to be made.
• Monitor nightly production batch.
• Ensure that the acceptance environment is in sync with production for accurate batch testing.
• Assist developers with Appworx questions and design.
• Notify and assist print operations with batch processing questions, reprints, and problems.

Knowledge of, and experience with Unix and SQL Plus are required with exposure to Oracle Forms and Oracle Designer a plus. This position also requires effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communications skills, excellent organization skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities. Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Business preferred but will consider equivalent related technical work experience on a year for year basis. 2 to 3 years experience in programming required with 1-3 years related experience in a quality assurance role a plus.

This position does require that a beeper be carried at all times and employee be on-call at designated times. When on-call, the employee must be able to respond to a pager call within 15 minutes. Employee will be required to resolve the issue/problem either by dialing in from home or returning to the workplace within one hour if required. Occasionally will work evenings and weekends to migrate code to production environments.

For immediate consideration, please complete an expression of interest via our company website at http://www.pinnacol.com/careers/current-opportunities. To explore what it is like to work with our company please visit our Careers Blog at http://pinnacolcareers.blogspot.com/.