Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Jobs in Toronto, Ontario

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Provides advice on the testing stXXgy, 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.
• Nice to have:
• Agile process experience - Scrum, User Stories, CI, TDD, Automated Tests, etc.
• The ability to prepare summary and detail reports describing testing activities
• Experience with business clients, supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities
• Experience working with/within Service Oriented Architecture and testing web services.
• Experience working with client customer support representatives to assist in data set up for training and

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.

XXrable 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 Candidateagement principles, concepts, policies and practices.
• 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-Candidatelf Applications (COTS).

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

• Responsibilities/Assignment Deliverables - Systems Testing/QA Specialist
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in the following:
• Planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems in GUI and non GUI environments
• Experience in planning, organizing and implementing testing efforts at the specified levels of proficiency
• Knowledge and experience in the use of DevOps tools (Jira, Azure DevOps)
• Experience in coding automated test scripts to produce sets of automated test cases
• The ability to prepare summary and detail reports describing testing activities
• Experience with business clients, supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities
• Experience working with/within Service Oriented Architecture and testing web services.
• Experience working with client customer support representatives to assist in data set up for training

Other Requirements:

• Agile process experience - Scrum, User Stories, CI, TDD, Automated Tests, etc.
• Execution of functional tests, non-functional tests, and systems level integration tests
• Extensive knowledge of procedures and techniques for testing web based, online, batch, client server systems and web services
• Experience in requirements and test plan walkthroughs and in carrying out static testing
• Experience at the specified experience level in setting up user access and user profiles, backup and recovery, and day-to-day computer systems operations.
• Experience working with client customer support representatives to assist in data set up for training and implementation
• Preferred Experience working with Applications that automate internal Government Business Processes

Systems Testing QA - Evaluation Criteria: Price - 30%: Technical skills - 30%:

• 10 years of experience in planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems in GUI and non GUI environments
• Demonstrated experience with business clients, supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities.
• Demonstrated experience in executing functional tests, non-functional tests, and systems level integration tests
• Demonstrated experience in coding automated test scripts to produce sets of automated test cases
• Demonstrated experience in procedures and techniques of testing web based, online, batch, client server systems and web services.
• Demonstrated experience Knowledge and experience in the use of DevOps tools (Jira, Azure DevOps)

Other Skills - 25%:

• Demonstrated experience in requirements gathering and test plan walkthroughs and in carrying out static testing.
• Demonstrated experience in setting up user access and user profiles, backup and recovery, and day-today computer systems operations.

Client Support - 10%:

• Demonstrated experience of working with client customer support representatives to assist in data set up for training and implementation.

Government Business Process Experience - 5%:

• Working experience on applications that automate internal government business processes such as
• Websphere, e-Forms, JDBC, and Business Objects Enterprise etc., would be an asset.