Intermediate Systems Testing/QA Specialist

Do you have 8+ years of demonstrated QA experience, including leading QA teams, defect tracking using a collaborative tool to manage defects and change request and to communicate status of these to all project participants? Do you have excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills, verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills ?If so, this would be a great opportunity for you!

Our client is looking for an Intermediate Systems Testing/QA Specialist for a 12 month contract in Toronto.

This is an onsite role.

Rate: $335.39 - $374.72



Advantages
• Earn a competitive rate within the industry.

• Location: 5 days onsite.

• Potential for extension.



Responsibilities
• Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
• Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design test coverage plan.
• Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate potential quality issues to management.
• Develop, document, and maintain functional test cases and other test artifacts like the test scripts, test data and data validation.
• Execution of manual test cases and report test results.
• Document software defects and track resolution.
• Ability to create test plan, test cases and test scripts to validate those changes made to the application
• Support User Acceptance Testing and lead initial UAT sessions.
• Review user documentation and provide feedback to improve application alignment and clarity of the information.
• Management and maintenance of defect log and communication of defect related issues to project team
• Working closely with QA team lead and developers holding triage sessions and ensuring appropriate prioritization of defects
• Working closely with the client lead, prioritize, schedule and remediate defects.
• Prepare test data sets that mimic real-world scenarios, ensuring the data covers a wide range of cases and scenarios.
• Ability to create and execute database queries to extract relevant data
• Execute and evaluate manual/automated test cases and report test results.
• Hold and facilitate test plan/test case reviews with cross functional team members.



Qualifications
Must Haves:

· 8+ years of demonstrated QA experience, including leading QA teams, defect tracking using a collaborative tool to manage defects and change request and to communicate status of these to all project participants

· Knowledge and experience in the use of version control systems on one or more platforms

· Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle

· Conceptual skills to see the big picture and assist in integrating QA/testing processes and standards

· Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills, verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills.



Summary
If you are interested in the Intermediate Systems Testing/QA Specialist position in Toronto, please apply online at www.randstad.ca. Qualified candidates will be contacted.



Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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