Mandatory Technical / Functional Skills
 * In depth experience in SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and Web Services. The candidate would have been a tenured technologist on multiple successful SOA implementations. This position requires a good understanding of the SOA; having performed a lead role in the establishment of an SOA environment and successful implementation of applications using SOA. Lastly, the candidate would have a proven track record driving application architecture in a high growth enterprise environment.

 * Solid Quality Assurance experience including strategy planning, reporting and metrics analysis including experience managing and building test processes and frameworks; architecting, designing and delivering solutions in the areas of SOA and Quality Assurance including a strong knowledge of all stages of software quality assurance including black box testing, gray box, white box testing, performance, stress and load testing, requirements analysis, test planning, reporting/control and root cause analysis.

 * Proven repeated experience in developing, implementing, and managing load, performance, stress and capacity testing strategies in complex enterprise environments including integrated applications using EAI tools.

 * Proven experience in multiple environments with designing/programming skills with strong Object Orientated skills using some of the open architecture standards such as XPDL, BPEL, UML, Servlets, SOAP, WSDL, JSPs, JDBC, SQL, JNDI, XML, HTML and J2EE best practices, design principles and techniques with SOA applications and ESB software (e.g., TIBCO BusinessWorks, BEA WebMethods)

 * Strong understanding of system, regression and user acceptance testing, familiarity with testing tools to include functional automation tools and test case management and defect management tools.