Systems Testing/QA Specialist – Intermediate

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Job Title: Systems Testing/QA Specialist Intermediate
Client: Justice Technology Services
Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement
Location: Onsite / 21 College Street, Toronto, Ontario
Work Model: Onsite

Description / Responsibilities / Skills Must 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
• Hands on experiences with technologies such as SharePoint, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript and VBScript, COTS, SaaS, Cloud applications
• Demonstrated experience in test management (Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Execution), defect management (Defect Life Cycle and Triage) and Test Execution Reporting.
• Demonstrated experience working with clients and technical teams to ensure effective resolution of defects and management of change requests are complete.

A Note on Assignment Type:

• This position is currently listed as "Onsite", working 7.25 hours per calendar day, sometime between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM (excluding breaks) Monday to Friday inclusive, unless otherwise identified.

Scope:

• Contribute towards testing activities for the delivery and product management life cycle of the CDT project.
• The resource will be responsible for the following activities:
  • Assist in the development of test strategy
  • Preparation of test cases / scenarios, test scripts, regression test cases/scenarios required to verify solution and system
  • Execute all test activities including AODA, data testing, stress/load testing, test scripts to verify solution
  • Reconcile record and track system or functional defects, break/fixes identified during unit and user acceptance testing
  • Communication with project manager, test lead and developers to ensure application quality and alignment with project timelines

Assignment Deliverables:

• 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

Skills Experience and Skillset Requirements Mandatory Requirements:

• 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

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience in planning, organizing and implementing testing efforts at the specified experience level
• Knowledge of structured methodologies for the development, design, implementation and maintenance of applications
• Knowledge and experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools and data query tools to aid in the development of test cases
• Knowledge and experience in the use of automated test tools and version control systems on one or more platforms
• Experience executing functional tests, non-functional tests and systems level integration tests
• Experience supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities
• Experience with quality assurance principles, practices, tools and structured methodologies
• Experience creating testing strategy documentation, test plans, test cases and test data for various types and phases of testing, including technical and business functional validation
• Experience in quality assurance and testing, including unit testing, data testing, integration testing, load testing, performance testing, etc.
• Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills; verbal and written communication skills, and interpersonal skills
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
• Knowledge of one or more automated testing tools

Resumes Evaluation/Criteria: Criteria 1: Technical Skills - 35 Points

• Hands on experiences with technologies such as SharePoint, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript and VBScript, COTS, SaaS, Cloud applications
• Experience executing functional tests, non-functional tests, data testing, and systems level integration tests
• Knowledge and experience of automation tools and the use of version control systems on one or more platforms
• Able to extract and retrieve data by using database queries (e.g., SQL)
• Demonstrate knowledge of regression and integration testing with enterprise level applications/solutions
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle

Criteria 2: Quality Assurance Skills - 35 Points

• Demonstrated experience in defect tracking using a collaborative tool to manage defects and change request and to communicate status of these to all project participants
• Demonstrated experience in test management (Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Execution), defect management (Defect Life Cycle and Triage) and Test Execution Reporting
• Experience with User Acceptance Testing and UAT sessions

Criteria 3: Business Skills - 25 Points

• Demonstrated experience working with clients and technical teams to ensure effective resolution of defects and management of change requests are complete
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills; strong verbal and written communication skills
• Provide periodic status reports, present test data defects/migration strategy and approach to executives and other stakeholders

Criteria 4: Public Sector Experience - 5 Points

• Previous experience working in Government or Public Sector organizations

Knowledge Transfer What needs to be KT:

• All documentation relating to the technology designs and technology knowledge specific to the candidate's assignment
• All information gathered while working with vendors and internal solutions to be shared
• Any best practices, work around, lessons learned must be documented

To whom:

• Project Manager / Team Members

When:

• 1:1 meetings / team meetings / documentation on SharePoint site, throughout the duration of the project life cycle etc.

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
• Hands on experiences with technologies such as SharePoint, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript and VBScript, COTS, SaaS, Cloud applications
• Demonstrated experience in test management (Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Execution), defect management (Defect Life Cycle and Triage) and Test Execution Reporting.
• Demonstrated experience working with clients and technical teams to ensure effective resolution of defects and management of change requests are complete.