RQ10365 Systems TestingQA Specialist Intermediate

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
  
• 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
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 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.
  
• 2 years of experience in developing and testing software applications using automated testing
  
• Knowledge of test automation tools (e.g. Katalon Selenium Appium)
  
• Experience with agile methodology
  
• Strong analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills
  
• 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.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

• Experience in quality assurance at the specified experience level
  
• 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)
  
• Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle
  
• Strong analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills
  
• Product cycle (functional & non-functional) testing experience
  
• Test case & Test Scenario design and review experience (from business requirements)
  
• Test case development experience
  
• Experience in defect tracking
  
• Test scenarios (use-cases) design and review
  
• Experience in writing manual/automated test scripts
  
• Working knowledge of Web Web Services HTML JavaScript Java Perl and related scripting technologies for automation
  

• 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.
  
• 2 years of experience in developing and testing software applications using automated testing
  
• Knowledge of test automation tools (e.g. Katalon Selenium Appium)
  
• Experience with agile methodology
  
• Strong analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills
  
• 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.
  

Manual Testing Skills/Experience:

• 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:

• 2 years of experience in developing and testing software applications using automated testing
  
• Knowledge of test automation tools (e.g. Katalon Selenium Appium)
  
• Knowledge of API testing tools like Postman SoapUI or equivalent
  
• Familiarity with RESTful services and SOAP
  
• Strong programming/scripting skills
  

Soft Skills:

• 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
  
• Experience with User Acceptance Testing and providing sprint reviews
  

Public Sector Experience:

• 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)