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Job ID: 2013-16980

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 5/9/2013
Job Location: US-NY-New York
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Production Operations

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities
- Owner, facilitator and implementer of best practice-based testing strategy and operating model to sustain testing services and quality delivery across the assigned functional program.
- Overall responsibility for test planning and management – including strategy, estimation, planning, budgeting, and execution oversight for the testing life cycle. Works closely with Project Manager(s) in the development of project plans/schedules/estimates, providing input and guidance regarding testing requirements.
- Ultimately accountable for the implementation and adherence of QA controls.
- Coordinates and facilitates test planning, scheduling, and execution with cross-team partners.
- Reviews and evaluates QA deliverables -- scenarios, plans, test cases, traceability, and test data.
- Primary liaison to the business for UAT planning and coordination.
- Evaluate, identify and recommend test team staffing requirements; participate in sourcing and fulfilment to achieve deliverable objectives.
- Supports impact analysis of change requests.
- Supports the creation and management of development, test and production environments
- Develop and oversee full QA lifecycle deliverable tracking and reporting – including defect management.
- Ensure accurate reporting of defects from capture to resolution
- Overall owner for the testing assets – ensures structured organization and management of documentation and artifacts to support sustenance, reuse, and knowledge management.
- Evaluate, recommend, and implement test process/tool improvement opportunities, including automation models and tools.
- Monitor and manage quality risks, escalate.
- Support management reporting consistent with established program governance requirements.

Qualifications
- Web application and n-tier distributed applications testing.
- Waterfall and Agile testing methodologies.
- Functional, non-Functional, and complex integration testing requirements.
- Experience with third-party and offshore-based testing models and sourcing.
- Skills with automated tools and experience in establishing automation framework using Selenium, QTP
- High level understanding of Performance and Security testing
- Domain knowledge of working with CMS and Ecom. Applications
- A sound understanding of industry best practices for QA
- Strong communication skills to promote and ensure adherence to the QA strategy
- Strong attention to detail, processes, compliance and metrics in line with QA Strategy
- Background working with technology areas, such as Network, Operations and Information Management]]>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Sr-Quality-Assurance-Analyst-Job-NY/2589764/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Sr-Quality-Assurance-Analyst-Job-NY/2589764/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-17360

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 5/9/2013
Job Location: US-NY-New York
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Information Technology

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Pearson is the market leader in providing Instructional Improvement Systems (IIS) to Kindergarten through 12th grade schools. We are looking for a skilled and energetic Senior Quality Assurance Test Engineer with a keen understanding of testing methodologies who can not only verify functionality, but effectively and efficiently put the software through a rigorous testing cycle to ensure the end user experience is nothing less than excellent.

Responsibilities
- Within an Agile framework, lead other team members to deliver compelling, high quality solutions via iterative sprint commitments and periodic release vehicles
- Uphold existing quality assurance standards and processes, and be a champion in driving further improvements. This includes the creation and documentation of QA standards and best practices that can be leveraged by the entire QA organization
- Mentor junior staff on sound QA and testing methodologies, as well as sound business principles such as time and project management, communication skills
- Research and internalize proposed software requirements, functional designs, and technical designs, as well as participate in meetings to clarify and refine requirements and designs
- Develop and implement test strategies and test plans
- Create and document test requirements and high level test cases, followed by creation and execution of detailed test cases. This includes the creation of necessary test data
- Communicate and present test artifacts such as test plans, test cases, and quality assurance processes to any and all interested parties
- Perform manual testing to ensure the software meets stated requirements & designs, and has a positive user experience. This may include black box, white box, positive, negative, boundary, stress,
integration, exploratory, usability, system, platform, or regression testing methodologies
- Perform verification on software defect fixes to ensure they resolve the stated problem
- Follow sound problem solving methodologies to identify, troubleshoot, and properly document software defects
- Perform maintenance on existing test-ware, and implement incremental improvements
- Identify, quantify, and communicate software risks, and produce comprehensive mitigation strategies
- Produce accurate estimates for the time needed to execute on assigned projects and tasks
- All other responsibilities, as assigned by management

Qualifications
- Graduation from a college or university with a degree in Computer Science, Information Systems OR equivalent degree is required
- 7+ years experience leading testing efforts for enterprise level projects
- Demonstrates a passion for improvement of existing processes and tools, as well as development and documentation of standards and best practices
- Experience mentoring junior staff on QA and testing methodologies
- Expert understanding of established Quality Assurance test methodologies
- Expert understanding of Agile SDLC (specifically, SCRUM)
- Experience with Windows and MAC client and server operating systems
- Demonstrates a passion for tablet computing and testing
- Working knowledge of SQL in order to manipulate and validate test data
- Experience working in a .NET environment is preferred
- Familiarity with XML, HTML
- Exceptional problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Exceptional time management skills
- Demonstrate a passion for Software Quality Assurance & Testing
- Demonstrate an ability to thrive as both an individual contributor and as a team contributor
- Demonstrate motivation, innovation and a dramatic willingness toward excellence
- Must be able to travel 5% of the time]]>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Sr-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Job-NY/2589200/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Sr-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Job-NY/2589200/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-17776

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 5/22/2013
Job Location: US-NY-New York
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Project Management

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Pearson is actively seeking a Senior Project Manager to join us in a full time role. Qualified candidates will have thoroughly enjoyed working as a Scrum Master in the past and be passionate about supporting an expert team to create great software. Schoolnet Scrum Masters are responsible for facilitating an agile based software development team consisting of development, QA, and user experience team members. This hire will also be responsible for the coaching and mentoring the team on Scrum methodology as it continues to be implemented at Schoolnet. This position will report to the Director of Project Management and based in our New York City office.

Responsibilities
- Work with product management, technical and user experience teams to prioritize the product roadmap in support of release goals
- Work with the teams to set incremental goals and project manage across the cross functional teams to achieve these goals within designated timeframes
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution within and across teams and project stakeholders
- Communicate status of project via sprint and release-specific reports and improve transparency as to project status and radiate information
- Scrum Master responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- Organize and facilitate project planning, daily scrum meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
- Ensure team is practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
- Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, point estimation and task definition

Qualifications
- 5+ years project management experience
- 5+ years experience on a software development team
- Certified Scrum Master with Scrum Master experience a plus
- Self-starter with strong creative problem solving, facilitation, interpersonal skills
- Great project management and organizational skills
- Excellent communication skills both written and oral
- Ability to manage up and across teams/stakeholders
- Bachelors Degree required, MBA a plus
- Knowledge of and experience in the K-12 and/or education technology industry preferred, but not required

#LI-BF]]>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Sr-Project-Manager-Job-NY/2610794/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Sr-Project-Manager-Job-NY/2610794/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-17029

# of Positions: 3
Posted Date: 4/16/2013
Job Location: US-NY-New York
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Information Technology

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

As the world’s leading provider of clinical assessments, Pearson (www.pearsonassessments.com) is trusted by psychologists and other professionals to help them make accurate diagnoses and plan appropriate interventions for their patients and students. Now we’re thrilled to introduce an exciting leap in our evolution: Q-Interactive^TM, the world’s most advanced assessment tools in an elegant tablet-based delivery platform.

We are actively seeking innovative, highly motivated, and passionate engineers who can help deliver this cutting edge product. As a Senior Software Engineer at Pearson, you will contribute heavily in the ideation, design, and development of the Q-Interactive^TM platform. To learn more about Q-Interactive^TM, please visit http://bit.ly/QAqfYK

As our Senior Software Engineer, you will:

?Write code that utilizes the latest design patterns and best practices in a test-driven development environment

?Ensure back end scalability and front-end design integrity

?Collaborate with UX Designers, BAs, QA engineers, and product owners to develop continuous product enhancements and releases

Qualifications

Experience:

?You’ve spent 5 years hand-coding JavaScript. You’ve written your own JavaScript framework or plugins and think in object notation.

?You can write clean and semantic HTML5, CSS3, and have experience creating canvas elements and objects. You also understand cross-browser nuances and tablet viewports.

?You can consume and create APIs and web services.

?You have OOP down pat and have worked with Java for at least 5 years in an enterprise setting. Experience with Grails is desired.

?You’ve worked with Spring and have extensively focused on security.

?You’ve created databases, written queries, and stored procedures for at least 10 years. Experience with MySQL and Oracle is a must.

?You’ve worked in Agile teams and are familiar with Scrum.

?Experience with paired programming is a plus

Personal Skills:

?Effective, verbal communication

?Leadership and mentoring

?Excellent written and technical writing skills

?Highly analytical and problem solving skills

?Write clean, clear, and commented code

?Ability to test your code and code of others

?Hard working, “get it done” attitude

?Willingness to work in a team environment

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Java (SCJP) certification is desired

Contact the recruiter:
- www.linkedin.com/in/gwenhodgson
- Twitter: HRGwen
- Google+ Gwen Hodgson

#LI-GS]]>Wed, 15 May 2013 02:59:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Senior-Software-Engineer-Mobile-Technology-%28JavaScript%2C-HTML5%2C-CSS3%29-Job-NY/2549197/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Senior-Software-Engineer-Mobile-Technology-%28JavaScript%2C-HTML5%2C-CSS3%29-Job-NY/2549197/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-17358

# of Positions: 3
Posted Date: 5/9/2013
Job Location: US-NY-New York
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Information Technology

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Pearson is the market leader in providing Instructional Improvement Systems (IIS) to Kindergarten through 12th grade schools. We are looking for skilled and energetic Quality Assurance Testers with a keen understanding of testing methodologies who can not only verify functionality, but effectively and efficiently put the software through a rigorous testing cycle to ensure the end user experience is nothing less than excellent.

Responsibilities
- Within an Agile framework, collaborate with other team members to deliver compelling, high quality solutions via iterative sprint commitments and periodic release vehicles
- Research and internalize proposed software requirements, functional designs, and technical designs, as well as participate in meetings to clarify and refine requirements and designs
- Develop and implement test strategies and test plans
- Create and document test requirements and high level test cases, followed by creation and execution of detailed test cases. This includes the creation of necessary test data
- Communicate and present test artifacts such as test plans, test cases, and quality assurance processes to any and all interested parties
- Perform manual testing to ensure the software meets stated requirements & designs, and has a positive user experience. This
may include black box, white box, positive, negative, boundary, stress,
integration, exploratory, usability, system, platform, or regression testing methodologies
- Perform verification on software defect fixes to ensure they resolve the stated problem
- Follow sound problem solving methodologies to identify, troubleshoot, and properly document software defects
- Perform maintenance on existing test-ware, and implement incremental improvements
- Identify, quantify, and communicate software risks, and produce comprehensive mitigation strategies
- Uphold existing quality assurance standards and processes, and be a champion in driving further improvements
- Produce accurate estimates for the time needed to execute on assigned projects and tasks
- All other responsibilities, as assigned by management

Qualifications
- Graduation from a college or university with a degree in Computer Science, Information Systems OR equivalent degree is required
- Expert understanding of established Quality Assurance test methodologies
- Expert understanding of Agile SDLC (specifically, SCRUM)
- Experience with Windows and MAC client and server operating systems
- Demonstrates a passion for tablet computing and testing
- Working knowledge of SQL in order to manipulate and validate test data
- Experience working in a .NET environment is preferred
- Familiarity with XML, HTML
- Exceptional problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Exceptional time management skills
- Demonstrate a passion for Software Quality Assurance & Testing
- Demonstrate an ability to thrive as both an individual contributor and as a team contributor
- Demonstrate motivation, innovation and a dramatic willingness toward excellence
- Must be able to travel 5% of the time

#LI-BF]]>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Job-NY/2589199/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Job-NY/2589199/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-16260

# of Positions: 3
Posted Date: 5/1/2013
Job Location: US-NY-New York
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Product Management

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Schoolnet, Inc., part of Pearson’s K12 Technology division, is the leading provider of data-driven K12 education software that increases student achievement, teacher quality and operational efficiency. Our award-winning suite of data-driven education software is the only unified solution to align student assessment, curriculum and instruction; guide collaborative,
data-informed discussion; and enable targeted instruction for every student.
Our solutions are used successfully by many of the nation’s largest school
districts including Chicago Public Schools and the School District of Philadelphia. Schoolnet is recognized by Inc. Magazine’s Top 500 List, Deloitte’s Fast 50 as one of the fastest growing private companies, and is the recipient of several CODiE Awards.

K-12 Technology is currently seeking an ambitious Product Manager to play the critical product owner role in our Agile SCRUM development process. Successful candidates will be passionate about building innovative software products in the education space, be able to transform big-picture vision into product backlogs and represent the voice of our users and customers throughout the development process. Strong analytic and communication skills are a must with the ability to clearly articulate complex concepts, features and benefits to customers, partners, prospects and SCRUM teams.

This position will report to a Director of Product Management and ideally be based in our New York City office although we are open to hiring in other locations.

Responsibilities
- Facilitate requirements gathering sessions with customers to understand, document and prioritize detailed user needs to inform solution development activities
- Clearly articulate customer and user needs to Agile SCRUM teams through user stories and a well-groomed product backlog
- Daily collaboration with developers, scrum masters, user experience designers and QA analysts to support definition, design, development and testing of new product functionality
- Synthesize multiple streams of market and customer information to understand and communicate requirements and priorities to both
management and teams
- Conduct compelling product and feature demonstrations to a variety of internal and external audiences that convey product and subject matter expertise
- Provide product and market expertise to internal organizations and customers to support client engagements, sales processes and
issue resolution
- Transform high-level strategic initiatives and concepts into actionable projects for SCRUM teams to execute against
- Create and evolve internal processes to improve organizational efficiencies
- Collaborate with other Product Managers to insure consistent cross-team implementation of Agile best-practices

Qualifications
- 5+ years applicable experience in product management/product ownership
- Passion for and/or experience with improving K-12 public education
- Excellent written communication and presentation skills
- Solid grounding in enterprise software technologies with proven ability to work closely with development teams on user-centric product design.
- Strong interpersonal skills with a focus on teamwork and the ability to foster/maintain relationships internally and externally
- Superb project management and organizational skills with ability to gather business and functional requirements
- Strong quantitative analytical skills and sharp business acumen
- Agile SCRUM experience a plus
- Must be able to travel 20% of the time
- Bachelor’s degree required, MBA a plus

#LI-BF]]>Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Sr-Product-Manager-Job-NY/2576367/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Sr-Product-Manager-Job-NY/2576367/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-17319

# of Positions: 2
Posted Date: 5/21/2013
Job Location: US-NY-New York
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Project Management

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Pearson K-12 Technology is actively seeking a Project Manager to join us in a full time role. This individual will be responsible for project management in support of Pearson’s effort to build a digital, basal curriculum based on the new Common Core standards, and may include acting as a Scrum Masters for one or more teams. As such this individual will be responsible for facilitating an agile based software development team consisting of development, QA, and user experience team members. Qualified candidates will have thoroughly enjoyed working as a project manager in the past and be passionate about supporting an expert team to create great software. This position will report to the Program Manager and based in our New York City office.

Responsibilities
- Work with product management, technical and user experience teams
to prioritize the product roadmap in support of release goals
- Work with the teams to set incremental goals and project manage across the cross functional teams to achieve these goals within designated timeframes
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution within and across
teams and project stakeholders
- Communicate status of project via weekly reports, presentations, and project plans; improve transparency as to project status and radiate
information
- Scrum Master responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Organize and facilitate project planning, daily scrum meetings,
reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and otherScrum-related meetings
- Ensure team is practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
- Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story
selection, point estimation and task definition
- Travel required: Up to 50%

Qualifications
- 2+ years project management experience
- 5+ years experience on a software development team
- Certified Scrum Master with Scrum Master experience a plus
- Self-starter with strong creative problem solving, facilitation
and interpersonal skills
- Great project management and organizational skills
- Excellent communication skills both written and oral
- Ability to manage up and across teams/stakeholders
- Flexible attitude and a desire to take on large challenging projects
- Bachelors Degree required, MBA a plus
- Knowledge of and experience in the K-12 and/or education technology industry preferred, but not required

#LI-BF]]>Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Project-Manager-Job-NY/2585214/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Project-Manager-Job-NY/2585214/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-16416

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 5/9/2013
Job Location: US-NY-New York
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Project Management

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Pearson Technology (PT) is a centralized service organization within Pearson that provides

technology solutions to the Pearson Operating companies worldwide. Our mission is to provide and support the infrastructure and services required for Pearson’s digital path. Pearson Technology enables new digital revenue and innovative business models; facilitates more effective management, movement and protection of our intellectual property; and fosters

collaboration while achieving meaningful efficiencies and cost savings to support future growth and investment.

Pearson Technology is seeking a dynamic technology leader experienced in defining and implementing technology roadmaps that lead to competitive advantage. This high visibility role will have ultimate accountability for the technical vision that is brought forward by Pearson Technology and subsequent technical delivery of that vision for each of the operating units that it services.

Main areas of focus include:

(1) Owning and delivering detailed technical solutions and delivery plans and ensuring that each build has the appropriate technical resources.

(2) Working with our Engineering teams to prioritize demand and re-configure their

backlog in order to ensure delivery of customer requirements

(3) Ensuring that engineering teams have the right skills and resources to meet demand and that these are scheduled onto work to the best advantage of Pearson

(4) Ensuring the identification of key technical risks, issues and opportunities and helps ensure budgets, benefits and committed dates are met and systematically captured and analyzed through hands on involvement.

(5) Responsibility for leading developers through concept to final delivery of digital products.

Responsibilities

As a direct report to the Director of Technical Project Delivery, the candidate will have full

responsibility for technical delivery and decisions on planning in the area of Software Engineering.

This includes:
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Responsible for managing a development team on a project by project basis with ownership for full technical delivery. This role works closely with discipline leads and cross functional delivery teams to execute on plans.
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Monitor day-to-day activities of the technical delivery team and ensures work is progressing as planned.
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Work with the project team to manage schedules, budgets, assets, and overall project organization to ensure requirements and project deliverables dates are clearly communicated, understood and executed upon.
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Actively monitor risks to technical delivery and works with project and Engineering teams to find solutions to technical challenges, scope creep and changing business priorities.
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Consistently identifies needs that our Product Managers may not recognize and ensures approaches and solutions are linked to objectives and future needs.
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Proactively identifies opportunities and delivers improvements
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Coordinates with Operations/Support teams deployment activities
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Coordination with Quality Assurance Team for test planning and execution

Qualifications
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Strong technical credentials with 3+ years experience managing / leading development teams?
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Hands-on experience with server side technologies
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Knowledge of client side and/or mobile technologies
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A minimum of 5+ years solid experience as a project manager specializing on web projects, Agile or RAD experience preferred.
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Strong background in the delivery of CMS driven web site and custom build web applications.
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A strong portfolio of public facing web sites that you have worked within.
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Excellent understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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Able to communicate effectively with clients at all levels of the organization.
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Excellent problem solving abilities.
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Strong background in producing detailed business requirement documents and functional specifications.
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Certified SCRUM Master highly desired
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Experience implementing a range of package solutions that include Search, CMS, CRM, Social and eCommerce platforms.
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Knowledge and experience in implementing large scale commercial web applications?
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Comfortable working in a fast paced multi task dynamic environment?
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Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences both technical and non-technical audiences.

Formal education or equivalent
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Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or IT related field
- Project management qualification/accreditation a plus]]>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Technical-Project-Manager-Job-NY/2589202/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/New-York-Technical-Project-Manager-Job-NY/2589202/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2012-14665

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 3/4/2013
Job Location: US-CO-Centennial
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Information Technology

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Writes manual and automated tests for all Pearson products
Executes both manual and automated functional, non-functional, application, and regression tests
Researches and analyzes the requirements for the product features being tested
Creates test plans; Document test cases using requirements in a test case management tool.
Executes test cases as well as performs back end data validation
Investigates and reports technical issues by communicating and working with various departments
Performs and documents risk analysis
Performs database verification using SQL or similar method
Keeps record of test progress and results using Pearson supported project level and QA tools
Reports progress of project testing and issues to SQE Manager and project team on a regular basis
Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED FOR THIS PROJECT

Has good Automation skills ( Selenium, Fitnesse)
Good understanding of REST services, experience with web services testing
Has good sql skills
Has experience Java development.
Has experience working in an agile environment
Has good communication skills.

Java skills are required so that the QA resource is:
Able to perform service level testing
Will need to be able to work very closely with the developers
can assist with supporting the automation framework and work on automation
can write Java code in a selenium framework, or some other service testing framework]]>Sat, 18 May 2013 05:31:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Centennial-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Job-CO-80014/2460760/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Centennial-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Job-CO-80014/2460760/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2012-14732

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 3/19/2013
Job Location: US-MA-Boston
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Information Technology

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

Focuses on creating automated tests for all Pearson products
Executes both manual and automated functional, non-functional, application, and regression tests
Researches and analyzes the requirements for the product features being tested
Creates test strategy, creates an impact analysis, document test cases using requirements in a test case management tool.
Executes test cases as well as performs back end data validation
Investigates and reports technical issues by communicating and working with various departments
Performs and documents risk analysis
Performs database verification using SQL or similar method
Keeps record of test progress and results using Pearson supported project level and QA tools
Reports progress of project testing and issues to SQE Manager and project team on a regular basis

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Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE,
SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED FOR THIS PROJECT
Has good Automation skills both UI and service level ( Selenium, Fitnesse)
Good understanding of REST services, experience with web services testing
Has good sql skills
Has experience Java development
Has experience working in an agile environment

Has good communication skills

Java skills are required so that the QA resource is:
Able to perform service level testing
Will need to be able to work very closely with the developers
Can assist with supporting the automation framework and work on automation
Can write Java code in a selenium framework, or some other service testing framework

Cloud Computing

Experience testing in a cloud environment or in a cloud release strategy

Many of our project teams are migrating their work to the cloud, experience here a plus]]>Wed, 01 May 2013 03:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Centennial-Sr-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Job-CO-80014/2460761/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Centennial-Sr-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Job-CO-80014/2460761/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-16382

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 4/18/2013
Job Location: US-CO-Centennial
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Information Technology

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Focuses on creating automated tests for all Pearson products
Executes both manual and automated functional, non-functional, application, and regression tests
Researches and analyzes the requirements for the product features being tested
Creates test strategy, creates an impact analysis, document test cases using requirements in a test case management tool.
Executes test cases as well as performs back end data validation
Investigates and reports technical issues by communicating and working with various departments
Performs and documents risk analysis
Performs database verification using SQL or similar method
Keeps record of test progress and results using Pearson supported project level and QA tools
Reports progress of project testing and issues to SQE Manager and project team on a regular basis

Other duties as assigned

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Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED FOR THIS PROJECT
Has good Automation skills both UI and service level ( Selenium, Fitnesse)
Good understanding of REST services, experience with web services testing
Has good sql skills
Has experience Java development
Has experience working in an agile environment

Has good communication skills

Java skills are required so that the QA resource is:
Able to perform service level testing
Will need to be able to work very closely with the developers
can assist with supporting the automation framework and work on automation
can write Java code in a selenium framework, or some other service testing framework

Cloud Computing

Experience testing in a cloud environment or in a cloud release strategy

Many of our project teams are migrating their work to the cloud, experience here a plus]]>Tue, 21 May 2013 03:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Centennial-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Job-CO-80014/2554305/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Centennial-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Job-CO-80014/2554305/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-16960

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 4/25/2013
Job Location: US-MA-Boston
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Information Technology

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Quality Engineers, you are responsible for looking
across Pearson's multiple production lines, and evaluating the current test coverage and
automation status and making a decision on the best testing and automation strategies for
functional areas. Also, you will need to propose for the future QA and automation directions and strategies.
- Work with the project team to determine the test scope required for each release.
- Determine the selection and usage of test tools and data collection tools used by dev & QA to test and measure the overall quality of each product.
- Generate with automation strategies.
- Develop Automation Framework; and select the best automation toolkits.
- Deliver automation test suite under the agile development enviroment.
- Continuously improve test coverage and test efficiency.
- Work with development team to get instrumental builds and collect test coverage data for major functional areas.
- Perform the analysis automated test results and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.
- Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and executive management.
- Manage testing progress and ensure that aggressive deadlines are met.

Qualifications
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science
- 3~5 year engineering experience.
- Strong data collection and analysis skills
- Java, .Net or C++ programming experiences
- Proficient in XML structures and parsers.
- Broad OS and networking knowledge, an aptitude for troubleshooting and problem solving.
- Solid understanding of SQL/relational database concepts
- Experience in software development and testing tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Must be a good team player.
- Detailed oriented, resourceful, initiative and creative]]>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Sandy-Software-Quality-Engineer-Job-UT/2566772/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Sandy-Software-Quality-Engineer-Job-UT/2566772/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-16258

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 5/9/2013
Job Location: US-NJ-Old Tappan
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Production Operations

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

We are seeking a motivated Quality Assurance Analyst to oversee the execution and coordination of day to day and scheduled tasks of internal and external global team members. This is a 'hands-on' QA Lead role. The person who will succeed in this role will have an excellent work ethic and be a flexible self-starter who can ramp up with new technologies quickly and adapt to a growing and evolving team. This person should be able to demonstrate strong logical and creative problem solving abilities, excellent oral and written communication, and excellent analytical skills. To lead effectively, the QA Lead will have to be a team player and be able to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities
- Developing Quality Management plans and test strategy for each release, review test plans and conduct peer reviews of plans & test cases. Assist in determining appropriate test environments & managing globally distributed staff as appropriate. Working with business analysts to ensure business requirements are adequate & ensure test cases are developed according to standards for both manual and automated execution.
- Providing test estimates to Project Managers, Development and Release in preparation of the delivery timelines.
- Engage application development in defect resolution & Lead defect review calls. Coordinate tasks with global resources.
- Participate on continuous improvement efforts within the QA organization & Research and evaluate new testing technologies and tools.
- Provide guidance around automation strategies for Oracle ERP applications, working with the QA Shared Services Team.

Qualifications
- B S. /B.A. or M.A. /M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline
- Overall experience of 7 -10 yrs. for the execution and control of all aspects of testing and comprehensive regression testing before any changes are released to the Production environment.
- Closely works with Business Analysts to ensure that all core business requirements are satisfied, new business needs are proactively supported and new functionality are delivered with an exceptional quality.
- Holds a strong business process understanding and functionality of all the core modules of Oracle R12 ERP application.
- Ability to work in a heavily customized Oracle ERP environment.
- Prime responsibility for designing, developing, implementing testing to meet global and local legal/business requirements in the Oracle ERP space. Experience automating the core modules of Oracle R12 ERP using the available tools in the market.
- Support the entire delivery effort during all project stages, ensuring that in areas of assigned responsibility milestones and related sign-offs are achieved on a timely basis and in accordance with current project plan
- Tenacity; ability to work through problems and reach win-win solutions.
- Solid understanding of software quality management principles (tracking, analyzing, reporting, problem resolution and training).
- Big picture orientation with the ability to work at the detail level when needed
- Working with external vendors and offshore teams to ensure high quality products are delivered
- Experience with multiple development methodologies (e.g. Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid) & different tools (HP-QC, JIRA, and Rally, HP-ALMPC)]]>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Old-Tappan-Quality-Assurance-Analyst-Job-NJ-07675/2589769/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Old-Tappan-Quality-Assurance-Analyst-Job-NJ-07675/2589769/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-16781

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 5/1/2013
Job Location: US-MA-Boston
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Information Technology

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities
- Responsible for delivering both manual and automation testing.
- Writes new and maintains existing test scripts using an existing selenium/java framework.
- Investigates and resolves technical issues in the testing process and communicates the issues to other members of the cross-functional team
- Works with product managers, developers, and other cross-functional teams to understand requirements for each feature being tested
- Participates in risk assessments that involve senior QA staff and mgmt.
- Documents progress/status of feature testing as well as reports project-wide testing status their lead/manager.

Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, engineering, business, or a related field and minimum 8-10 years of demonstrated quality assurance testing experience.
- Solid testing skills as well as a comprehensive understanding of the SQE process.
- Flexible with ability to adapt to changing priorities throughout the software release cycle
- Ability to multi-task, as well as excellent organizational, time management, customer service, and problem solving skills
- Strong communication skills (interpersonal, written, and verbal) and ability to work independently and in a team-based environment.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to estimate task durations and meet schedule in an Agile software development environment.
- 5+ years of automation experience with a strong knowledge of Selenium/Java based automation frameworks.
- Working knowledge of a significant subset of platforms including: Windows 8 and below; Mac OSX, IE 10 and below, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.]]>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Boston-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Job-MA-02108/2578161/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Boston-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Job-MA-02108/2578161/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-16955

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 4/25/2013
Job Location: US-MA-Boston
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Information Technology

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

As a Quality Engineers, you are responsible for looking across Pearson's multiple production lines, and evaluating the current test coverage and automation status and making a decision on the best testing and automation strategies for functional areas.
- Work with the project team to determine the test scope required for each release.
- Determine the selection and usage of test tools and data collection tools used by dev & QA to test and measure the overall quality of each product.
- Generate with automation strategies.
- Develop Automation Framework; and select the best automation toolkits.
- Deliver automation test suite under the agile development enviroment.
- Continuously improve test coverage and test efficiency.
- Work with development team to get instrumental builds and collect test coverage data for major functional areas.
- Perform the analysis automated test results and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.
- Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and executive management.
- Manage testing progress and ensure that aggressive deadlines are met.

Qualifications
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science
- 3~5 year engineering experience.
- Strong data collection and analysis skills
- Java, .Net or C++ programming experiences
- Proficient in XML structures and parsers.
- Broad OS and networking knowledge, an aptitude for troubleshooting and problem solving.
- Solid understanding of SQL/relational database concepts
- Experience in software development and testing tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Must be a good team player.
- Detailed oriented, resourceful, initiative and creative.]]>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Boston-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Engineer-Job-MA-02108/2566769/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Boston-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Engineer-Job-MA-02108/2566769/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-16962

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 5/1/2013
Job Location: US-CO-Centennial
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Information Technology

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

As a Quality Engineers, you are responsible for looking across Pearson's multiple production lines, and evaluating the current test coverage and automation status and making a decision on the best testing and automation strategies for functional areas.
- Work with the project team to determine the test scope required for each release.
- Determine the selection and usage of test tools and data collection tools used by dev & QA to test and measure the overall quality of each product.
- Generate with automation strategies.
- Develop Automation Framework; and select the best automation toolkits.
- Deliver automation test suite under the agile development enviroment.
- Continuously improve test coverage and test efficiency.
- Work with development team to get instrumental builds and collect test coverage data for major functional areas.
- Perform the analysis automated test results and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.
- Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and executive management.
- Manage testing progress and ensure that aggressive deadlines are met.

Qualifications
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science
- 3~5 year engineering experience.
- Strong data collection and analysis skills
- Java, .Net or C++ programming experiences
- Proficient in XML structures and parsers.
- Broad OS and networking knowledge, an aptitude for troubleshooting and problem solving.
- Solid understanding of SQL/relational database concepts
- Experience in software development and testing tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Must be a good team player.
- Detailed oriented, resourceful, initiative and creative.]]>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Centennial-Software-Quality-Engineer-Job-CO-80014/2578165/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Centennial-Software-Quality-Engineer-Job-CO-80014/2578165/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-15557

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 5/14/2013
Job Location: US-NJ-Old Tappan
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Information Technology

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

DevOps Systems Engineer

This engineering role supports software development and QA teams. The individual in this position must be an out of the box thinker and a self-starter.

The purpose of this role is to provide hands on engineering & implementation support of DevOps solutions and services that will transform application development and support at Pearson.

Person(s) in this role require strong collaboration and partnership skills, i.e., key partners are infrastructure, operations, and enterprise & solution architecture teams.

A strong background and solid grasp of software development, QA and system deployment is essential. Familiarity with agile and waterfall systems development lifecycles (SDLC), i.e., SCRUM is desired.

Person(s) in this role will be familiar with a wide range of DevOps tools, including but not limited to source code repository hubs, continuous integration services, issue tracking, test automation, deployment automation, development team collaboration, project management, etc.

A key deliverable will be to design, engineer, integrate and provide on-going management of a fully automated DevOps environment serving Pearson development and QA communities.

Target DevOps platforms will reside on Pearson’s cloud infrastructure leveraging VMware, therefore working knowledge of VMware platform & application virtualization is essential.

Typical responsibilities:
- End to End Development Operations (DevOps) platform administration across tools
- Virtual server & application workload configuration and deployment
- Engineering and managing standard software stacks and application topologies
- LDAP and development platform role based security administration
- Integrates new DevOps tools, incorporating new features and service level improvements
- Develop scripts to automate DevOps functions, i.e., source code checking with continuous integration, automated test tool configuration, application topology configuration, automated deployment and proactive environment monitoring & management, etc.
- Ensures the DevOps environment is backed up and can be easily restored
- Implements proactive monitoring tools & capabilities to improve DevOps service levels
- Contribute to the DevOps Tool Strategy and Roadmap, always learning, make it better!
- Platform & Server Administration, Windows, Linux (RedHat)

Work location: NYC (downtown), NJ Old Tappan

Qualifications

Desired Technical Skills
- Vmware, virtualization, LDAP security integration
- Applicaton, platform configuration, TCP/IP, DNS, Firewall, LDAP, Knowledge
- Strong scripting skills, REST, shell, Pyhon, Java and VB, etc.
- Basic Programming skills Java/PHP, ASP.NET 2.0-3.5
- Knowledge of DevOps tools, GIT, SVN, Jenknis, JIRA, Rally, Greenhopper, Puppet/Chef Vagrant, Selenium, etc. Always learning??

#LI-DB]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Old-Tappan-Principal-Systems-Engineer-Job-NJ-07675/2596638/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Old-Tappan-Principal-Systems-Engineer-Job-NJ-07675/2596638/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2012-9580

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 2/5/2013
Job Location: US-MA-Boston
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Product Management

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

SUMMARY

The Software Product Manager shares responsibility for planning, designing, and managing the development of the XL MyLabs products. The Software Product Manager is active in all phases of development, from collecting customer input and gathering requirements through user interface design and specification writing to quality-assurance testing. This position reports to the Director of Product Management (or designate), with authority to exercise leadership in the design and development of specific product features.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Track and prioritize software feature requests

2. Define the business case for specific feature requirements

3. Research user needs and expectations for specific feature requirements

4. Write use cases; functional specifications; and test plans for specific feature requirements

5. Collaborate with staff or freelance designers and team members to develop a cohesive user interface for new features

6. Conduct (or assist with) usability testing, user development conferences, and focus groups

7. Monitor and review the development of specific features including software engineering, QA, and documentation

8. Perform acceptance and ad-hoc functional testing of new features

Other related responsibilities, as assigned by management.

Qualifications

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) required.

3+ years of experience in a software product manager, UX/instructional designer, business analyst, or similar position.
In-depth familiarity with software design, development, and release
Excellent teamwork, communication, and organizational skills
Experience in educational publishing, educational technology, or instructional design is a plus

This position requires occasional travel to customer events and conferences in North America (10%).

#LI-BF]]>Fri, 17 May 2013 02:59:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Boston-Software-Product-Manager-XL-MyLabs-Job-MA-02108/1795678/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Boston-Software-Product-Manager-XL-MyLabs-Job-MA-02108/1795678/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-16561

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 3/26/2013
Job Location: US-MA-Boston
Position Type: Term of Project - Full Time
Category: Professional Development

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

The Math Content Developer reports to the Project Supervisor, MathXL and works as an individual contributor to the creation, release, and maintenance of instructional content for mathematics and statistics media products by the Pearson Mathematics & Statistics Media group. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: writing content and correlations; assessing content viability and appropriateness; developing content in accordance with instructional objectives; ensuring consistency of products and their components; correcting errors and responding to quality assurance issues; writing sample chapter tests; and occasionally performing quality assurance testing.

Please submit a cover letter with your resume when applying to this position.

Qualifications

BA/BS in mathematics or similar field preferred. Basic knowledge of computer hardware/software infrastructure. Math content knowledge at least through college calculus. Solid written English skills. Experience in education and/or educational technology. Other desirable skills include: software programming and testing skills, good teamwork and collaborative skills. Ability to do thorough, accurate and meticulous work and attention to detail essential. Must be able to manage time effectively in producing results.]]>Thu, 23 May 2013 03:00:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Boston-Math-Content-Developer-TOP-Job-MA-02108/2506047/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Boston-Math-Content-Developer-TOP-Job-MA-02108/2506047/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Job ID: 2013-16452

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 4/8/2013
Job Location: US-MA-Boston
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Information Technology

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities
- Drive the wheel of technical direction of perforamnce engineering team
- Help to build the perforamnce engineeing best practices, standarization and stetigaies for the whole LTG/Ecollege.
- Work with the project team to analyze code changes introduced and assess potential performance impact and level of performance testing needed
- Work with Product Management to decide on performance testing requirements
- Collaborate with the development teams to translate the performance requirements into appropriate test cases
- Profile client and server calls triggered by the system and provide performance related feedback
- Investigates and resolves technical issues in QA Environments and communicates issues with various departments
- Run the performance tests in early software development cycle, and identify performance bottlenecks
- Work with development team to tune the application performance
- Continuously improve performance test coverage
- Integrate and consolidate performance testing tools, approaches, and environments across multiple performance groups
- Design load, stress, and scalability testing
- Deliver comprehensive performance testing reports and present them to development and project team

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Qualifications
- 5+ years of Software Development or Performance Testing and SDLC experience
- Extensive experience with load and performance testing tools such as LoadRunner or JMeter
- Experience with monitoring and analyzing server performance counters
- Preferred but not required; Fiddler, SoapSonar, Quality Center
- Detail oriented, demonstrates discipline and analytical problem solving skills
- Programming skills in Java and .Net
- Knowledge on Weblogic, SOA, AJAX, Web 2.0
- Operating system knowledge base with a focus on Windows operating systems and VMWare
- Knowledge on MSSQL databases
- Expert experience or knowledge required in the following; QA process, documentation, and testing
- Able to accurately estimate task durations and meet commitments in an Agile software development environment
- Understanding internet, application data flow and web server processes
- Ability to learn and actively seek new skills and knowledge to keep up with the changing technology field
- Ability to think outside the box, adapt to circumstances, learn from co-workers, and share information and experiences
- Ability to be flexible and adapt to any given situation
- Ability to perform multiple tasks concurrently
- Excellent customer service attitude, communication skills (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to make timely and sound decisions
- Detail oriented
- Ability to work independently and in a team based environment
- Ability to work efficiently in a fast paced environment
- Ability to work under pressure and in high stress situations
- Ability to be self-motivated
- Demonstrated ability to effectively work in a team environment
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- BS diploma required; Bachelor or Master Major in Computer Science preferred.]]>Tue, 07 May 2013 02:59:00 GMThttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Boston-Senior-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Job-MA-02108/2534920/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://jobs.pearson.com/job/Boston-Senior-Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Job-MA-02108/2534920/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS