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Progressive Insurance
Company Profile | Current Opportunities (3)
Job Location(s): Colorado Springs
Employment Term: Regular
Employment TypeFull Time
Start Date:As soon as possible
Starting Salary Range:Not Provided
Required Experience: Open
Related Categories:IT - General, Insurance - Claims, Insurance - Sales

Position Description

Job Category Information Technology
City Colorado Springs
State CO
Requisition Number 28700
Update Date 11/2/2009

Job Details
Do you enjoy experimenting with technology and trying to figure out how things are put together? Do you have a passion for seeing a problem and immediately discerning the likely solution? Do you like the idea of using your technical skills to break systems, rather than build them? If so you may very well be a great candidate for the External Data Platform team who has an opening for a .

As a you will:
- Review software specifications, architecture & design for functional, system & performance weaknesses and other potential vulnerabilities.
- Analyze risks & prioritize test objectives
- Explore the application and system's functionality and architecture
- Identify the interfaces between components
- Identify dependencies & fault conditions
- Develop test paradigms and suites/cases to test the functionality
- Conduct both functional & nonfunctional testing
- Report bugs and advocate for them in such a way that they get fixed

Required Skills:
- At least 8-10 years of experience as a developer or in a test engineering role with previous leadership responsibilities
- At least 5 years of C# or Java experience.
- You must have strong analytical & troubleshooting skills
- Fluency in coding, especially OO-based languages
- Extensive experience with databases, being able to understand, create and test databases, schemas, stored procedures & queries
- Good communication skills
- Experience with test design techniques geared to improve efficiency in testing.
- Understanding of key metrics used to report on testing efforts
- Expertise in coding, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Excellent knowledge of Internet/Web technologies and database technologies
- Above and Beyond - Internally driven to accomplish goals
Self Directed - Prescriptive directives are not needed to get things done or to solve a problem
- Relationship Building - Can establish trust & credibility quickly with peers, superiors, and business customers.

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