http://www.thindata.com/aboutus/careers/ Thindata 1:1 Jobs en-ca Copyright 2008 Thindata 1:1 Thu, 17 May 2012 06:06:46 GMT 20 http://www.thindata.com/aboutus/careers/article.asp?articleID=1312385Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop customized reporting and in-depth analysis of clients' marketing databases
  
• Support the development, execution and measurement of client marketing campaigns including, but not limited to customer profiling, test and control sample creation, list processing and post campaign results measurement
  
• Plan and manage projects appropriately to ensure delivery is on-time and on-budget.
  
• Independently execute tactical reporting and campaign management projects
  
• Develop and execute on workflow organization and documentation; data extraction plans, data diagnostics and documentation; client follow-up on data; summary finding and recommendations
  
• Develop and deliver presentations to clients
  
• Monitor internal project communications and track time
  
• Engage in post-mortem reviews and documentation
  
• Mentor, train and supervise junior analysts on team on database marketing best practices, data diagnostics and documentation, status report generation, presentation development with key findings and recommendations
  
• Other duties as required

Qualifications / Experience

• SQL code expertise, automation and DTS/IS ETL processing
  
• Experience using reporting tools such as SSRS
  
• Experience with a campaign management tool such as Aprimo
  
• Bachelor's Degree or Post-graduate university education in Economics, Math/Statistics, Computer Science, Business Administration or a related discipline
  
• 5+ years' experience as a data analyst
  
• Thorough knowledge of database marketing and design best practices
  
• Clear understanding of campaign management process and principles
  
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills
  
• Experience in direct marketing
  
• Strong database administration, management and manipulations skills
  
• Excellent reporting analysis abilities
  
• Sound business acumen and analysis capabilities

Interested candidates please email: bonita.so@transcontinental.ca]]>1761220670Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.thindata.com/aboutus/careers/article.asp?articleID=1312387Responsibilities

• Design and build a QA/testing process in an Application Service Provider (ASP) / C# .NET / MS SQL / Windows software development environment.
  
• Perform unit, function, system integration, regression and performance testing.
  
• Clearly track test progress, convey results, forward forecast areas of risk and provide mitigation plans
  
• Create/Set up/maintain automation test environment that executes redundant manual testing to improve efficiency
  
• Conduct automation of new and regression test cases, scripts design/maintenance, test run failure analysis
  
• Work closely with Developers qualifying code, providing useful debug information and sharing test code/extending developer unit tests.
  
• Communicate with onshore/offshore resources for knowledge transfer and day-to-day test progress
  
• Ensure assignments deadlines are met and IT QA methodology is followed
  
• Provide insight and feedback to the development teams to build efficient processes, ensuring high development standards.
  
• Provide effective and thorough communication to all stakeholders of supported systems and projects

Must Have Skills:

• Overall 3+ years of industry experience in software development environment Quality Assurance
  
• Very strong QA Skills in test planning, including designing and executing test cases, bug isolation, bug report writing and troubleshooting.
  
• Must have been involved in generating test strategy, producing reports and summarizing overall status to management.
  
• Proven experience in creating time-saving automation strategies, scripting and test harnesses. GUI automation is highly preferable.
  
• Proven in-depth hands on experience with automated scripting and testing tools: strategy, scripting, execution, and debugging.
  
• General software engineering concepts and skills is essential.
  
• Must have flexible work ethic and previous experience working with offshore development and QA teams
  
• Minimum 1-2 years experience with C# .NET / Windows Server / MS SQL.
  
• Ability to prioritize workload, balancing different projects, to be able to meet deadlines.
  
• Experience in utilizing metrics to measure testing status and identify opportunities for improvement
  
• Able to take documented and undocumented technical specs from development and translate them into feature and system integration test strategies and test plans.
  
• Ability to incorporate a customer-focused perspective when designing test cases, executing tests and test plans.
  
• Strong oral and written communication skills. Experience supporting customers directly.
  
• Combination of being both methodical and willing to take risks.
  
• Driven to find out how things work in order to discover how to break processes.
  
• Act as the final gateway for deployment of production releases

Desirable:

• Bilingual in both official languages is a definite asset
  
• 1-2 years experience with data driven/keyword driven/hybrid test automation frameworks, object repository utilization, and test script maintenance.

]]>1761223354Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.thindata.com/aboutus/careers/article.asp?articleID=1305229Responsibilities:

• Hand code HTML
  
• Hand code VBScript
  
• Regularly update HTML code to meet our approved best practice standards
  
• Deploy and evaluate test emails in a variety of email clients to ensure quality
  
• Work with database files to ensure proper cleansing of records
  
• Build database queries using our product user interface to pull specified segmented lists for more complex email broadcasts
  
• Provide post-deployment reports to the client
  
• Assist Account Managers and Project Managers in developing email marketing system solutions including databases, online forms and triggered broadcasts
  
• Assist in overall management of marketing programs with other departments to ensure our client's email marketing objectives are met
  
• Manage a number of client campaigns simultaneously and ensure all deadlines are met
  
• Complete quality assurance checks for campaigns you have created & those created by the team

Requirements:

• Intermediate HTML skills required
  
• Intermediate CSS skills required
  
• Experience with VBScript coding preferred
  
• Experience with Microsoft Access preferred
  
• Strong technical understanding of email deployment mechanisms
  
• Strong knowledge of the Internet and email clients
  
• Experience with some form of email campaign management system, a strong asset
  
• Photoshop skills is a strong asset
  
• Meticulous attention to detail
  
• Commitment to client service and relationship building
  
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  
• Ability to rapidly acquire an understanding of new technologies

Attributes:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  
• Team player who shows great initiative, drive and anticipates the needs of others
  
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment

]]>1751617318Mon, 6 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.thindata.com/aboutus/careers/article.asp?articleID=1312381Key Accountabilities and Essential Functions Include:

• Manage critical and complex migrations tasks moving existing solutions from our existing product platform to the next generation platform
  
• Understand business needs & objectives as they relate to migration of client projects - includes coordination of multiple stakeholders from different functional areas (technology, quality control, account management, support)
  
• Work closely with a multi-disciplinary development team to ensure the projects in development meet stakeholder requirements
  
• Manage budgets for projects to ensure profitability and deadlines are met.
  
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans & documentation
  
• Understand and incorporate scale, security, and architecture considerations into the project requirements and concepts
  
• Manage project scope & change requests with the ability to understand & communicate impacts to project requirements, timelines & budget
  
• Produce weekly/monthly project status reports on all projects being managed
  
• Interface with clients
  
• Deliver exceptional customer service
  
• Manage external vendors (project by project basis)
  
• Seek customer feedback during and immediately after engagements. Act on feedback in a timely manner as required.
  
• Show a commitment to continual self-improvement in order to learn and stay current with project management methodologies
  
• Understand the software development lifecycle (a must)
  
• Communicate & collaborate effectively & clearly with other functional teams

Qualifications / Experience:

• At least 4 years of project management experience in Web, Interactive Agency or IT industry
  
• Bachelor's degree or higher
  
• Formal education in project management an asset
  
• Experience developing project scope and quotes for projects
  
• Effective time-management skills and ability to organize and prioritize workload.
  
• Understands quality management, risk management and mitigation
  
• Clear understanding of software development life cycles, relational databases, and web technologies
  
• Understanding of Database Marketing - Segmentations and counts, list queries, campaign management
  
• Strong understanding of online communication and online technologies.
  
• Experience working and communicating with clients
  
• Ability to translate clients' business objectives into technical solutions
  
• Effective client relationship management and demonstrated experience in a client-facing role

Attributes:

• Excellent organization, analytical and proven problem solving skills.
  
• Experience managing small to medium sized projects
  
• Detail-Oriented - Verifies all work thoroughly to ensure accuracy
  
• Positive attitude and thrives in a dynamic, team and ever changing environment
  
• Work both independently and in a team environment

Skills:

• Proficient in the use of Microsoft business products -- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project
  
• Basic understanding of common internet protocols, SQL, .Net framework or ASP
  
• Excellent command of the English language both verbal and written]]>1761215302Thu, 3 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT