Specialized IT Consultant

Assignment : RQ07929 - Specialized IT Consultant - Senior

Job Title : Specialized IT Consultant

Requisition (SS) : RQ07929

Start Date : 2025-01-02

End Date : 2025-03-31

Client : Central Agencies Cluster

Office Location : 222 Jarvis St, Toronto

Organization : Central Agencies Cluster

Extension # of Days : 255.00

Ministry : Ministry of Treasury Board Secretariat

Business Days : 62.00

Note : Hybrid - Candidate must be able to work 3 days onsite and 2 days remote

MUST HAVES :

• 10 years of experience in planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems in GUI and non GUI environments
• Demonstrated experience with business clients, supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities.
• Demonstrated experience in executing functional tests, non-functional tests, and systems level integration tests
• Demonstrated experience Knowledge and experience in the use of DevOps tools (Jira, Azure DevOps)

Description

Responsibilities :

• Works in partnership with clients, advising on IT to meet business objectives or overcome problems
• Improves structure and efficiency of an organization's I&IT systems
• Provides strategic guidance on Information Management & IT technology, IT infrastructures, and business process enablement
• Offers subject matter expertise and highly expert technical assistance

General Skills :

• Acts as the technical advisor / expert on specific deliverables
• Provides quality assurance / quality control of specific deliverables
• Anticipates and resolves problems to ensure deliverables are completed within budget and to the highest quality
• Develops processes and procedures for implementing deliverables
• Prepares reports and presentations including options, recommendations, and implementation plans
• Works with clients to define project scope and requirements
• Defines software, hardware, and network requirements
• Analyzes I&IT requirements, providing independent and objective advice
• Designs, tests, installs, and monitors new systems; develops solutions and implements new systems
• Familiar with change-management principles and methodology
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies, and practices

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

A minimum of 10 years of experience in the following :

• Planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems in GUI and non GUI environments
• Experience in planning, organizing and implementing testing efforts at the specified levels of proficiency
• Knowledge and experience in the use of DevOps tools (Jira, Azure DevOps)
• Experience in coding automated test scripts to produce sets of automated test cases
• The ability to prepare summary and detail reports describing testing activities
• Experience with business clients, supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities
• Experience working with / within Service Oriented Architecture and testing web services.
• Experience working with client customer support representatives to assist in data set up for training and

Other Requirements

• Agile process experience - Scrum, User Stories, CI, TDD, Automated Tests, etc.
• Execution of functional tests, non-functional tests, and systems level integration tests
• Extensive knowledge of procedures and techniques for testing web based, online, batch, client server systems and web services
• Experience in requirements and test plan walkthroughs and in carrying out static testing
• Experience at the specified experience level in setting up user access and user profiles, backup and recovery, and day-to-day computer systems operations.
• Experience working with client customer support representatives to assist in data set up for training and implementation
• Preferred Experience working with Applications that automate internal Government Business Processes

Evaluation Criteria - Total 100

Technical skills - 60%

• 10 years of experience in planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems in GUI and non GUI environments
• Demonstrated experience with business clients, supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities.
• Demonstrated experience in executing functional tests, non-functional tests, and systems level integration tests
• Demonstrated experience in coding automated test scripts to produce sets of automated test cases
• Demonstrated experience in procedures and techniques of testing web based, online, batch, client server systems and web services.
• Demonstrated experience Knowledge and experience in the use of DevOps tools (Jira, Azure DevOps)
• Expertise in end-to-end digital accessibility testing, including automated, manual, and assistive techniques.
• Knowledge of the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation (IASR), and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.

0 and 2.1 level A and AA.

Other Skills - 25%

• Demonstrated experience in requirements gathering and test plan walkthroughs and in carrying out static testing.
• Demonstrated experience in setting up user access and user profiles, backup and recovery, and day-today computer systems operations.

Client Support - 10%

Demonstrated experience of working with client customer support representatives to assist in data set up for training and implementation.

Government Business Process Experience - 5%

• Working experience on applications that automate internal government business processes such as Websphere, e-Forms, JDBC, and Business Objects Enterprise etc., would be an asset.
4 days ago