Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Intermediate

About the job

--Assignment RQ06772 - Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Intermediate

Status Open

Start Date 2024-04-22

Requisition (SS) RQ06772

Assignment # A1897538

Start Date 2024-04-22

Client Land & Resources Cluster

End Date 2025-03-31

Office Location 40 St Clair Ave W

Ministry Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry

Description

· Support help desk with inquires, trouble shooting, logging tickets and follow up where appropriate

· 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

· 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 Cluster’s 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

Evaluation Criteria:

Manual Testing Skills/Experience - 65%

· 10+ years experience developing Test Cases/Scripts and Data Requirements, develop test scenarios, test cases for manual testing

· 10+ years experience develop test cases/scripts as well as test data, ensuring all of the Business requirements are met by creating a traceability matrix.

· 10+ years experience developing technical testing strategies / plans

· 10+ years experience testing non-functional requirements (e.g. fail-over, component response times, data integrity, security)

· 10+ years experience executing testing activities for a number of types of testing such as:

o Integration testing

o Unit testing

o Regression testing

o Functional testing

o Accessibility testing

o Non-functional testing

· Demonstrated experience in developing test plans, test scripts and test data; documenting software defects and tracking resolutions.

· Experience with User Acceptance Testing and leading initial UAT sessions

Soft Skills - 30%

· Experience with agile methodology

· Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills

· Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

· Excellent meeting facilitation skills to gather requirements

· Experience reporting progress on deliverables to team, project leads and management, including proactively raising risks/issues with mitigations

· Strong stakeholder management skills

· 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 leading initial UAT sessions

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)

· 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

· Working knowledge of SharePoint, .NET Web, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript, Java, Perl and related scripting technologies for automation

· 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

· Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills, verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal 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

10+ years experience executing testing activities for a number of types of testing such as:

o Integration testing

o Unit testing

o Regression testing

o Functional testing

o Accessibility testing

o Non-functional testing