Job Vacancies in a Telco Company Via GVA Partners

GVA Partners – Our client in the Telco industry, based out of Nigeria, is seeking to recruit suitably qualified candidates for the position below:


Job Title: Test Lead – Functional and Integration Testing – Portal Applications
Location: Lagos
Engagement Period: 4-5 Months
Skill Expectation & Role Responsibility 

• Competency: At least 6 years’ Testing experience in portal applications and overall experience 7-8 years in IT industry
• Experience in using and managing Test management suites like HP ALM, Selenium, Load runner Project management Tools, MS Project
• Experience in Liferay portal testing/development – Good to have
• As a Test Lead, responsible for drafting Test plan, Test cases, Test design, Test scenarios, Test result.
• Prime responsibility in test execution and getting customer sign off of Module testing, SIT [With customer environment] and UAT [With customer environment
• Lead a team 1-2 resources in performing above test activities.
• Should have previous experience in Testing, developing and design of Portal applications , Integration SOA middleware , ERP applications for Telcos or other Vertical industries
• At least 3 years’ experience with Telecom customers in testing
• At least 2 years of engagement Experience in develop/test portal applications
• Lead overall integration testing of portal application by liaison with Portal development team of company based out of India as well as collaborating with company’s onshore BA and architect
• Work in collaboration with customers testing team, deployment teams and IT project owners

 


Job Title: Project Manager – Portal Application Implementation
Location: Lagos
Engagement Period: 4-5 Months
Job Description 

• Competency: At least 9 years IT project management and delivery experience with Tier 1 Telco, Banking Customers. Experience in portal application delivery
• Skill Expectation & Role Responsibility
• Should have 8-9 years’ project delivery experience with overall IT experience expected is 12-14 years
• Sound functional knowledge of Project delivery with certification on PMP
• Familiar with Telecom processes – CRM, Sales, Supply chain, ERP
• Experience in gathering requirements from client, implementing the solution and maintaining the environment for Intranet/Internet applications and making enhancements on a continuous basis, preparing training manuals and conducting training of end users on web based applications.
• Experience in Portal Technologies – Liferay, Sharepoint scripting
• At least 4 years’ experience as a project manager in Portal implementations for larger enterprise clients across all phases of the project life-cycle, including a global roll-out.
• Liaison with Test lead, Project manager, Portal development team of company based out of India as well as collaborating with company’s onshore BA and architect
• Work in collaboration with customers testing team, deployment teams and IT project owners
• The ability to manage software development with an off-shore development team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Leadership and strong team working skills.
• Setting and controlling the scope of the project
• Communicating status and vision to client management
• Delivering the project on time, on budget and within the agreed specifications
• Ensuring that the project team is following the approved project plan
• Performing the project financial management
• At least 5 years’ experience in managing project teams of 10+ FTEs, including being responsible for team staffing and performance evaluations of team resources.
• Good communication skills, interpersonal skills. Schedule and coordinate the company’s project resources based out of India to ensure right bench utilization and project profitability.
• Work along with company’s project team Technical architect, Business analysts, developers, Testers and business stakeholders managing overall deliverables of design, build, and test & deploy implementation of liferay portal solution, conforming to the clients Project Delivery Framework and default information security framework.
• Experience in using and managing Test management suites like HP ALM, Project management Tools , MS Project
• Be able to effectively scope out the work and provide accurate estimates
• Be able to manage the deliverables by self and others
• Self-motivated.
• Experienced in all phases of software life cycle like requirement analysis, designing, developing, installing, configuring and maintaining applications and project documentations.
• Excellent hands-on experience dealing with the onsite – offshore model and client interaction.
• Effective result oriented team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent and result oriented project leading skill.
• Client engagement to get more business for the organization.

Tools & Expertise 

• Software Methodologies/Project Management
• Agile/ SCRUM/ Waterfall
• Project Planning
• Proposal Creation
• Project Management using MS Project, Excel, Power Point, and Visio.
• MS-Office 2013/2010/2007/2003/XP/2000/98/95.
• Source Control Management Tools
• SVN
• Test Management Tools
• HP ALM
• Technology Platforms
• .NET/Java
• LIferay /Sharepoint Portal
• Database: MS SQL Server 2012, 2008 & 2005/ SQL Server 2008/2005/2000

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV’s to: contact@gvapartners.com using the job title as subject of the email.