QA 5721

Description :

Responsibilities:
Assist QA leads with all aspects of QA testing and reconciliation to ensure effective and timely completion of all required QA/testing.
Follow QA processes, best practises, and templates.
Develop QA test plan, test cases and test scenarios.
Develop deep knowledge of the system and understand the impact of changes to the system.
Identify gaps in requirement or implementation by performing detailed, through testing of system changes.
Verify all business rules, data field specifications and other validations are implemented as per requirement.
Verify application and system flow.
Perform data testing by preparing test data and reconciliation.
Execute test cases and test scenarios according to the test plan.
Assist in performing regression tests as well as integration test with different modules of the system application.
Assist in functional as well as Accessibility Compliance testing.
Responsible for problem identification, create and updating defect reports.
Document and perform test results and provide feedback to the Ministry staff.
Participate in daily stand-up meetings and collaborate with QA and other project teams.
Provide test summary and daily status reports.
Assist with Change Management processes.
Responsible for knowledge sharing with other team members and conduct knowledge transfer sessions. with detailed documentation on the information.

Additional Responsibilities:
Collaborate with Application Development team and other cross functional teams to solve project and customer issues.
Ensure compliance with government software development standards, including System Development Life Cycle and Project Management Life Cycle.
Complete work and achieve milestones within the assigned deadlines.
Notify the Cluster/Ministry project Manager/leads in writing of any issues or other material concerns related to the assignment deliverables, as soon as they become aware of them.
Submit deliverables for the Cluster/Ministry approval as they are completed. Comply with the Ontario Government and the Cluster/Ministry security procedures and practices.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

QA Skills - 45%
Proven experience in executing testing related activities and data reconciliation activities for large complex business critical business systems.
Experience in developing test plans, test cases and expected test results for complex business systems.
Experience in setting up test strategies for complex business systems involving data, rules and images which undergo a very high rate of change annually.
Experience in data analysis, cleansing, conversion and reconciliation on large complex systems.
Experience in executing test cases and test scenarios for large complex systems.
Excellent coordination and organization skills to assist with all QA activities in a tight timeline with conflicting priorities.
Experience in Accessibility testing of applications with alignment to AODA (WCAG2.0 AA).

Technical Skills - 35%
Excellent working knowledge of workflow, portfolio management and rule-driven business solutions.
Experience with web-based 3-tier software platforms.
Experience with testing tools, problem tracking software (i.e., Jira, Bugzilla and Microfocus Product Suite).
Good knowledge of Oracle database tools.
Proficiency with desktop tools (Visio, MS Office, MS Project, MS Outlook)
Experience testing custom implementations and COTS implementations, which include IBM J-Rules Engine
Working knowledge of web-based application development.
Experience with Accessibility testing tools like WAVES, JAWS, NVDA, Compliance Sheriff.

General skills - 15%
Experience in effectively coordinating multiple teams representing various business and technology areas, each with responsibility for a component of the solution.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, presentation skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
Excellent analytical problem solving and decision-making capabilities.

Public Sector Experience - 5%
Experience in the Public Sector, either as a vendor representative or under contract to a government ministry or agency.

Must Haves:

• 5+ years experience
• Proven experience in leading and executing manual testing related activities and data reconciliation activities for large complex business critical business systems
• Experience in developing test plans, test cases and expected test results for complex business systems
• Experience in setting up test strategies for complex business systems involving data, rules and images which undergo a very high rate of change annually
• Experience in Accessibility testing of applications with alignment to AODA (WCAG2.0 AA) and complete testing of web-based 3 tier software platforms NOTE: If AODA (WCAG) is not on the resume, the candidate will not be considered)
• Excellent working knowledge of workflow, portfolio management, testing custom implementations and COTS implementations, such as IBM J-Rules Engine, Jira, Bugzilla, HP/Microfocus Product Suite,

Nice to Have:

• Public Sector Experience
• Large Business Systems Knowledge