RQ08827 - Systems TestingQA Specialist - Senior

Responsibilities:

• Participate in business requirements walkthroughs.
  
• before being promoted into production
  
• Perform assigned system iteration acceptance regression volume performance post implementation and/or user acceptance testing tasks
  
• Analyze business requirements documentation including Use Cases and nonfunctional requirements.
  
• Contribute to the testing strategy and create systems test plan and test suites (including test cases).
  
• Analyze test data requirements and create appropriate test data to support the test strategy.
  
• Verify actual results meet expected results. Examine test databases using SQL. Analyze and log test results. Document and monitor resolution of system variances using an automated problem management system.
  
• Provide recommendations to the Project Manager as to the acceptance or rejection of any changed system components.
  
• Weekly reporting on status progress and key issue/concerns as directed by the Project Lead or Sr. Project Manager.
  
• Transfer skills and knowledge to selected OPS staff.
  
• The resource may be required to do similar work related to the role for other initiatives within PRS as directed by the manager.
  

Requirements

Public Sector Experience

Experience working in the public sector on a midtier and/or legacy platform.

Testing Experience

• 7 years of experience in system testing.
  
• Excellent knowledge of system testing methodology and executing system and user acceptance tests.
  
• Ability to understand and analyze business requirements and systems response documents to design and execute test plans to ensure the system functions and meets the business requirements.
  
• Experience verifying actual results meet expected results examining test databases using SQL analyzing and logging test results documenting and monitoring resolution of system variances using an automated problem management system (e.g. Clear Quest).
  
• Ability to write and design test plans and test cases that are wellstructured easy to maintain and easily understood by both developers and business analysts and clients providing detailed testing plans.
  
• Proven and demonstrable troubleshooting and analytical experience.
  
• Demonstrated excellent problem solving and decisionmaking skills.
  
• Experience analyzing business requirements documentation including use cases user stories and other nonfunctional requirements.
  
• Extensive experience to conduct system testing by executing online test scripts and manual test cases
  
• Experience analyzing test data requirements and create appropriate test data to support the test strategy.
  
• Experience with automated system testing and testing tools for CI/CD DevOps Pipelines
  
• Experience testing datamigration processes.
  
• Experience preparing and maintaining defect summaries and reports to aid with prioritization of work and defect tracking.
  
• Experience using automated testing scripts and tools (e.g. Rational Functional Tester Selenium or any equivalent automated testing tool).
  
• 5 years of experience with Agile project management and development practices (managing the backlog preparing and supporting the scrum master sprint planning creating user stories etc.
  

Analytical Skills

• Proven and demonstrable troubleshooting and analytical experience
  
• Demonstrated excellent problem solving and decisionmaking skills
  
• Experience analyzing business requirements documentation including Use Cases and nonfunctional requirements
  
• Experience analyzing test data requirements and create appropriate test data to support the test strategy
  
  

Communication Skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
  
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
  
• Strong consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders
  
• A demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  
• Demonstrated success in working productively with business clients developers and technical specialists such as DBAs web administrators etc
  
• Demonstrated experience reporting status progress and key issues/concerns to project managers and leads
  

MUST HAVES:

• Experience verifying actual results meet expected results examining test databases using SQL analyzing and logging test results documenting and monitoring resolution of system variances using an automated problem management system (e.g. Clear Quest).
  
• Experience with automated system testing and testing tools for CI/CD DevOps Pipelines
  
• Experience using automated testing scripts and tools (e.g. Rational Functional Tester Selenium Azure or any equivalent automated testing tool).
  
• Ability to understand and analyze business requirements and systems response documents to design and execute test plans to ensure the system functions and meets the business requirements in addition to AODA standards and testing approach
  
• Have good working knowledge of The AODA enacted in 2005 which aims to make Ontario accessible and inclusive for people with disabilities by setting standards and requiring organizations to remove barriers.