QA 10002-0211
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Job Summary
HM Note: This onsite contract role is in office every day at the managers discretion. Candidate resumes must include first and last name email and telephone contact information. This role commences April 1 2026.
Description
Responsibilities:
- Provides advice on the testing strategy test plans the selection of testing tools and the identification of resources required for testing
- Plans and organizes testing efforts for large systems in Graphical User Interface (GUI) and non-Graphical User Interface (GUI) environments including the execution of systems integration tests specialized tests and user acceptance testing (e.g. stress tests)
- The Quality Assurance Specialist is responsible for the development of test plans test scripts and test cases and executing these against the various components.
- The tester will work with the testing lead and IT lead of each project as well as the project team members in the analysis design development implementation and ongoing support of the required systems
General Skills:
- 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 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
Desirable Skills:
- Knowledge and experience in at least one programming language
- Experience in the use of information retrieval packages
- Knowledge and understanding of testing methods in an object-oriented environment
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles concepts policies and practices.
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
- Experience planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems
- Experience coding automated test scripts to produce sets of automated test cases
- Experience testing Commercial Off-the Shelf Applications (COTS)
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Core Skills - 45%
- Experience supporting a framework that enables the quick development and deployment of customized online data collection applications used by 5000 end users within the broader public sector to report on policy program achievement and financial data;
- Experience in testing web applications used for data financial and calendar management;
- Experience in testing accessible web applications compliance level WCAG level AA preferable and reporting defects preferable experience using screen reader (Jaws) for testing and Compliance Sheriff tool;
- Experience in testing environments built on 3/N-tier web applications using Oracle and/ or SQL Server DBs;
- Experience developing all test material - test cases test scripts test data defects status reports etc.;
- Demonstrated experience with Test Automation tool in particular Quick Test pro v10.0 and nbsp;HP quality Center;
- Demonstrated experience with both manual and automated testing;
- Experience with regression testing;
- Experience with System Integration and User Acceptance Testing cycles;
- Experience with the use of various testing tools for example HPQC and Bugzilla;
- Experience planning test cycles and strategies and related documentation
- Experience using SQL for testing;
- Demonstrated experience executing testing as part of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including experience testing through all of the Software Testing Life and nbsp;Cycle phases;
- Demonstrated experience working in an agile and waterfall environment;
- Demonstrated experience working as part of a team;
- Demonstrated experience problem solving and decision making;
Technical Skills - 30%
- Proficiency with desktop tools (Visio MS Office MS Project MS Outlook);
- Strong technical skills in SQL Databases XML;
- Demonstrated experience profiling and testing data stored within Databases XML CSV JSON and Excel files;
- Demonstrated experience analyzing and testing data warehouses data marts and data extracts;
- Demonstrated experience developing and testing presentation layer and business intelligence reports;
- Knowledge and experience framework (4.0) and nbsp; and nbsp;testing MVC Entity and nbsp;framework business entities WCF WFF MS Dynamics and LINQ preferable experience in implementing projects tracking solutions with Workflow engine accessibility;
- and nbsp; and nbsp;testing with C# Web forms jscript for multi-browser support CSS with full and nbsp;WCAG AA compliance in web applications preferable experience using screen reader and nbsp;
- (JAWS) for testing and High Compliance Sheriff tool;
and nbsp;Communication Skills - 20%
- Demonstrated analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills;
- Experience in dealing with multiple teams representing various areas in delivering the project;
- Demonstrated capacity to work collaboratively with client organizations ;
- A team player with a track record for meeting strict deadlines; and nbsp; and nbsp;
Public Sector Experience - 5%
- and nbsp;Experience working within the Public Sector particularly within the education ministries would be an asset.
Must Haves:
- Please see ALL Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Company Industry
IT Services and IT Consulting
Key Skills
- Change Management
- Corporate Communications
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- Compensation
- Civil Quality Control
