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SAS Programmer

  • Location: Elk Grove Village, 60007
  • Salary: $56 - $85 / hour
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted 25 days ago

Grow your career as a SAS Programmer with an innovative global bank working in Elk Grove Village, IL. 6+ month contract opportunity (with strong chance for extension). Will be required to work onsite 3 days per week. Will interpret requirements and perform contextual business focused testing and will work with the Business Analyst to build integration, regression, and functional tests.

Responsibilities:
  • Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents then translate them into functional level test requirements.
  • Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test approach and estimate the test effort.
  • Document and prioritize test conditions and test scenarios.
  • Execute test cases in a formal testing environment to identify, log, and track defects.
  • Support data conditioning for E2E and other domain integration testing.
  • Test multiple projects at the same time and able to shift priorities.
  • Collaborate, communicate with different teams, and triage technical issues across teams.
  • Identify opportunities and implement changes to increase testing automation and testing depth.

Qualifications:
  • BA/BS in a technical field.
  • 5+ years of technical background working as a Programmer or Tester.
  • Strong Unix/SAS/SQL.
  • Strong execution of test cases.
  • Knowledge of SAS language and ability to create small to intermediate SAS programs.
  • Strong working knowledge of UNIX command line and ability to create UNIX shell scripts in Korn Shell.
  • Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), testing methodologies, tools and processes.
  • Strong with basic SQL queries to deal with backend testing.
  • Knowledge of Autosys or other job scheduler.
  • Knowledge of ETL processes.
  • Working knowledge of test management software tool like Microfocus ALM/Quality Center.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to research, problem solve, and work independently.
  • Prefer experience working with mainframe systems.
  • Prefer knowledge of the credit card industry.
  • Prefer experience with credit bureau attributes.
  • Prefer experience building/enhancing/maintaining an automated regression test suite.

About our client

Our client stands as one of the world's most renowned global banks and trusted brand with over 200 years of continuously evolving financial services. Its teams provide unique insights to more than 200 million clients and enable progress all over the world. While growing your career, you will work alongside some of the smartest minds in the industry who are excited to share their knowledge and to learn from you.

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Candidates will be responsible for following the client's COVID-19 protocols. Please refer to your MATRIX representative for specifics.

About Us

At MATRIX, we expertly match talented professionals with job opportunities to elevate careers. Since 1983, we have placed thousands of professionals at innovative clients across every industry ranging from small startups to Fortune 50 companies. It’s why we’re a top 15 U.S. IT staffing firm and why our consultants rate us well above the industry average. People come to us for a job, and stay with us because of our top-notch consultant care.

For hourly W2 contract roles, MATRIX offers a highly competitive benefit package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, HSA, and 401(k) with pre and post-tax options. Please see https://www.matrixres.com/consultants-overview/benefits-and-payroll for more information. For direct hire placement with our clients, benefits will be offered in accordance with that particular client’s offerings. This may include PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K and other pre and post-tax options.

MATRIX is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/vets. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.