Intermediate QA Specialist
Pay Rate: Flexible)
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Contract Length: 12 Months, Hybrid
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Responsibilities:
• Contribute towards testing activities for the delivery and product management life cycle of the CDT project. The resource will be responsible for the following activities:
• Assist in the development of test strategy, preparation of test cases / scenarios, test scripts, regression test cases/scenarios required to verify solution and system.
• Execute all test activities including AODA, data testing, stress/load testing, test scripts to verify solution.
• Reconcile record and track system or functional defects, break/fixes identified during unit and user acceptance testing.
• Communication with project manager, test lead and developers to ensure application quality and alignment with project timelines
DELIVERABLES:
• Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
• Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design test coverage plan.
• Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate potential quality issues to management.
• Develop, document, and maintain functional test cases and other test artifacts like the test scripts, test data and data validation.
• Execution of manual test cases and report test results.
• Document software defects and track resolution.
• Ability to create test plan, test cases and test scripts to validate those changes made to the application
• Support User Acceptance Testing and lead initial UAT sessions.
• Review user documentation and provide feedback to improve application alignment and clarity of the information.
• Management and maintenance of defect log and communication of defect related issues to project team
• Working closely with QA team lead and developers holding triage sessions and ensuring appropriate prioritization of defects
• Working closely with the client lead, prioritize, schedule and remediate defects.
• Prepare test data sets that mimic real-world scenarios, ensuring the data covers a wide range of cases and scenarios.
• Ability to create and execute database queries to extract relevant data
• Execute and evaluate manual/automated test cases and report test results.
• Hold and facilitate test plan/test case reviews with cross functional team members.
MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS:
• 5+ years of demonstrated QA experience, including defect tracking using a collaborative tool to manage defects and change request and to communicate status of these to all project participants
NICE-TO-HAVE REQUIREMENTS:
• Bilingual in both French and English
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:
• 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, data 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
CRITERIA:
Criteria 1 – Technical Skills (35 Points)
• Hands on experiences with technologies such as SharePoint, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript and VBScript, COTS, SaaS, Cloud applications
• Experience executing functional tests, non-functional tests, data testing, and systems level integration tests
• Knowledge and experience of automation tools and the use of version control systems on one or more platforms
• Able to extract and retrieve data by using database queries (e.g., SQL)
• Demonstrate knowledge of regression and integration testing with enterprise level applications/solutions.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle
Criteria 2 – Quality Assurance Skills (35 Points)
• Demonstrated experience in defect tracking using a collaborative tool to manage defects and change request and to communicate status of these to all project participants.
• Demonstrated experience in test management (Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Execution), defect management (Defect Life Cycle and Triage) and Test Execution Reporting.
• Experience with User Acceptance Testing and UAT sessions
Criteria 3 – Business Skills (25 Points)
• Demonstrated experience working with clients and technical teams to ensure effective resolution of defects and management of change requests are complete.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills; strong verbal and written communication skills
• Provide periodic status reports, present test data defects/migration strategy and approach to executives and other stakeholders.
Criteria 4 – Public Sector Experience (5 Points)
• Previous experience working in Government or Public Sector organizations
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