RQ07715 – Systems Testing/QA Specialist – Intermediate

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with product managers, product owners, and technical team to develop test strategies and test plans
  
• Create and design automation test strategies and/or plans
  
• Creates automated test plans using Jenkins
  
• Executes and manages test automation; provides assessment of test program results
  
• 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 automated reports that summarize test completion and defects found
  
• 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
  
• Develops manual test scripts, test cases and/or test scenarios
  
• 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
  
• Assist with planning and creating test data
  
• Creates traceability matrix to ensure testing outcomes align with business requirements
  
• Coordinate and facilitate regular defect review meetings with 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
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

• Knowledge and experience in at least one programming language, preferably Java
  
• 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 coding automated test scripts to produce sets of automated test cases
  
• Experience testing Commercial Off-the Shelf Applications (COTS), preferably Oracle Siebel Public Sector
  
• Experience in DevOPs methodology is an asset
  

Must haves:

• 10+ years’ experience working with Java and Oracle applications, preferably Siebel Public Sector
  
• Regression testing
  
• 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