HM Note: This hybrid contract role is three 3 days in office. Candidates resume must include first and last name.
Description
Responsibilities:
- Collaborates with product managers product owners and technical team to develop test strategies and test plans
- Strong understanding of manual testing practices to support developing manual test scripts test cases and/or test scenarios
- Assist with planning and creating test data as it relates to each test phase
- Executes quality assurance and testing activities for various types of testing such as integration testing functional testing regression testing unit testing load testing performance testing and accessibility testing
- Plans and organizes testing efforts in both front-end and back-end application components/environments and nbsp;
- Design develop and maintain automated test scripts for functional regression and integration testing
- Use automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium Appium or similar to create robust and reusable test scripts.
- Communicate test results regularly through reports that summarize test completion and defects found
- Help with the implementation of the project technical testing strategy and methodology. This includes testing of integration points and interfaces and non-functional requirements (e.g. fail-over component response times data integrity security)
- Evaluate test results against acceptance criteria to determine successful completion of the sprint increment
- Defines and measures acceptance criteria for test cases
- Record all defects/issues in the Clusters defect reporting tool (Jira) including detailed descriptions screenshots and steps to re-produce
- Participate in elicitation and business requirement workshop sessions sprint reviews and/or walkthrough meetings
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the agile / iterative solution development lifecycle
- Conducts post-release / post-implementation testing
- Supports clients with user acceptance testing (UAT) activities
- Creates traceability matrix to ensure testing outcomes align with business requirements
- Coordinate and facilitate regular defect review meetings with Business Analysts and Business stakeholders
- Provide testing and defect status updates in daily scrum stand-ups team meetings as required
- Provide weekly report confirming status of assigned tasks
Knowledge Transfer Requirements:
- Knowledge transfer is expected to occur throughout the duration of the assignment through regular meetings touchpoints and working sessions with LRC staff
- All design development artefacts and source code including all relevant and complete documents must be transferred to the ministry in the designated repositories provided
- Dedicated knowledge transfer sessions will be scheduled to ensure completeness of knowledge transfer and all documentation is shared and allow LRC staff to ask clarification and/or follow up questions
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
- Experience in quality assurance at the specified experience level and nbsp;
- Experience in testing Commercial off the Shelf Software (COTS/SaaS solutions) preferably Oracle Siebel Public Sector
- Knowledge and experience in the use of test tools and methodologies (Waterfall/Agile/Iterative) and nbsp; and nbsp;
- Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle and nbsp;
- Strong analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Product cycle (functional and amp; non-functional) testing experience and nbsp;
- Test case and amp; Test Scenario design and review experience (from business requirements) and nbsp;
- Test case development experience and nbsp;
- Experience in defect tracking and nbsp;
- Test scenarios (use-cases) design and review and nbsp;
- Experience in writing manual/automated test scripts and nbsp;
- Working knowledge of SharePoint .NET Web Web Services HTML JavaScript Java Perl and related scripting technologies for automation and nbsp;
Evaluation Criteria:
Manual Testing Skills/Experience - 60
- 5 years experience developing Test Cases/Scripts and Data Requirements develop test scenarios test cases for manual testing
- 5 years experience develop test cases/scripts as well as test data ensuring all of the Business requirements are met by creating a traceability matrix.
- 5 years experience developing technical testing strategies / plans
- 5 years experience testing non-functional requirements (e.g. fail-over component response times data integrity security)
- 5 years experience executing testing activities for a number of types of testing such as:
- Integration testing
- Regression testing
- Functional testing
- Accessibility testing
- Non-functional testing
Automation Testing Skills/Experiences-20
- 5 years of experience in developing and testing software applications using automated testing
- Familiarity with RESTful services and SOAP
- Knowledge of test automation tools (e.g. Katalon Selenium Appium)
- Knowledge of API testing tools like Postman SoapUI or equivalent
- Strong programming/scripting skills
Soft Skills - 15
- Experience with agile methodology
- Strong analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality results.
- Effective communication skills both written and verbal
- Experience reporting progress on deliverables to team project leads and management including proactively raising risks/issues with mitigations
- Demonstrated experience working with clients and technical teams to ensure effective resolution of defects and management of change requests are complete and nbsp;
- Experience with User Acceptance Testing and providing sprint reviews
Public Sector Experience 5
- Experience in testing enterprise level systems and exposure to ministry QA processes and standards within OPS
- Previous experience working in Government or Public Sector organizations.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Public Sector applications databases and systems while testing
- Experience working in accordance with policies and procedures of the Ontario Public Service
- Working knowledge of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
Must haves:
- 5 years experience executing testing activities for a number of types of testing such as:
- Integration testing
- Regression testing
- Functional testing
- Accessibility testing
- Non-functional testing
- 5 years of experience in developing and testing software applications using automated testing
- Familiarity with RESTful services and SOAP
- Effective communication skills both written and verbal