Lead Tools Support Engineer

This role is 6 Months Contract to Hire! The first round of interviews will be onsite (Tampa, FL or Coppell, TX)!

Job Summary

In this position, you will be reporting to Direct Delivery (DPO COE) organization and support engineering project teams on ALM tools related topic such as tool roll out, configuring tools to project and business needs and training. Additionally, you will be the first point of contact for user management, troubleshooting, co-ordination with IT on ALM tool related topics.

• Ability to work effectively across functional and geographic boundaries in the interest of the customer and business (required)
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills (required)
• Excellent time management skills (required)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (required)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills (required)
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision (required)
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• Job Responsibilities
• Micro Focus ALM Admin
• Responsible to administrate QC server licenses.
• Responsible to creating new users.
• Responsible to create new projects.
• Usage Monitoring and reporting.
• Quality Center Customization support.
• Work closely with all engineering domains to support on ALM tool related topics.
• Support PMT organization to deploy current and new tool suites to engineering projects.
• Develop training material and train users on using the ALM tool per the process.
• Develop training material and train team on how to support ALM tool for user community.
• First point of contact to users on ALM tool related topics i.e., tool usage, issue resolution, etc.
• Support users by creating tool related scripting and automation of repetitive tasks.
• Support engineering teams to extract charts and dashboards from the ALM tools.
• Support Configuration Manger, Change and Problem Resolution manger to monitor and extract audit reports from the ALM tools.
• Pilot new tools, perform tests with IT organization before upgrade or new tool roll out.
• Monitoring
• Support multiple projects across different time zones.
• Administrative tasks for Application Maintenance
• Microfocus QC / ALM / Octane installation, upgrade and environment design
• Migration of projects to latest version of the application
• New patch implementation
• Validation and verification of the upgraded environment and projects
• Microfocus QC /ALM / Octane project creation and maintenance
• Monitor and proactive management of centralized shared tools services such as license servers, databases, application services and infrastructure that underpins these.
• Integration with other Microfocus and 3rd Party tools with QC / ALM / Octane
• Administrative tasks for implementing MF QC / ALM functionality.
• Experience implementing new functionality.
• Customization and configuration of the project as per the project requirement (user roles, project entities, Alerts, Workflows etc.)
• Designing and developing workflows and configurations
• Development of template projects and cross project customization
• Customizing within the dashboard/reporting module
• Identify, analyze, and mitigate project and operational risks.
• Ability to coordinate activities with various technical teams (network, database, and architecture) to structure solutions.
• Development and communication of tool usage and best practices
• Understanding and developing SQL queries
• Experience in V B scripting and Microfocus QC / ALM OTA API
• Knowledge of macro creation
• Ability to handle multiple priorities and assess and adjust quickly to changing priorities.
• Ability to think of new solutions and be proactive to go with a can-do attitude.
• Proven verbal and written skills to communicate / report both technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

Minimum of 6 years of related experience

Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.