Systems Testing/qa Specialist

Description

Hybrid work: 2 days in the office at (office location address) and 3 days remote from home office within Ontario;

**Responsibilities**:
Provides advice on the testing strategy, 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.

Responsibilities/Assignment Deliverables:

- Strong background in, and at least 3+ years of working in QA automation using Selenium or similar tool
- Compose manual and automated test scripts for new functionality
- Knowledge of Agile SCRUM preferred.
- Thorough understanding of SDLC, specifically automated QA processes in agile development environments
- Building test infrastructures using containerization technologies such as Docker and working within continuous delivery / continuous release pipeline processes
- Participate in business requirement review and walk through meetings;
- Collaborate with the Ministry to develop a Test Strategy and Plan for the pilot implementation
- Provide feedback to Drive Clean Management regarding the completeness and quality of the proposed vendor plan to execute
- Functional testing;
- Application integration (links, connections, security transactions between functions and main modules);
- System testing (end-to-end testing);
- Regression testing;
- User Acceptance testing;
- Execute UAT test cases and document the results
- Coordinate and facilitate regular defect review meeting with stakeholders
- Provide defect status reports throughout the testing cycles
- Participate in regular project team meeting and provide status and update as required;
- Provide weekly report confirming status of assigned tasks

The selected Testing/QA Specialist will be expected to ensure that the proposed Test

Strategy / Test plans include the following correction procedure.

1. Prioritize problems based on severity level definitions;
2. Identify problems, isolate them and document as defect;
3. Regression test for resolved defects

The selected Testing/QA Specialist will be expected to ensure that the proposed Test

Strategy / Test plans includes the following:

- Functional testing:

- Component level testing;
- Low level (test cases, GUI, check lists);
- Functional (test existing functions, sub-functions and their objects);
- Non-functional (boundary conditions
- “login” and “password” windows, security issues);

and,
- Data and Database Integrity Testing- System Testing
- System testing should focus on any target requirements that can be traced directly to use cases (or business functions), and business rules. The goals of these tests are to verify proper data acceptance, processing, and retrieval, and the appropriate implementation of the business rules.
- Load Testing- Security and Access Control Testing
- Experience in doing AODA testing for WebUI and Documents
- Security and access control testing focus on two key areas of security:
- Configuration Testing- SKILLS**EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS**
- 1. 5 OR MORE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AS A SYSTEMS TESTING/QA SPECIALIST;-
- 3. EXPERIENCE WITH AGILE SPRINT MANAGEMENT AND BUG TRACKING SOLUTIONS SUCH AS AZURE- 4.UNDERSTANDING OF BASIC FUNDAMENTALS OF ITERATIVE DEVELOPMENT AS WELL AS BACKLOG TRACKING AND TASK DEFINITION- 5. EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH SELENIUM TO DEVELOP AND RUN AUTOMATED TEST CASES- 6. USE AZURE OR OTHER BUG TRACKING TOOLS.- 7. DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE IN ALL FUNCTIONS OF SYSTEM TESTING;- 8. DEMONSTRATED KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF TESTING METHODS IN AN OBJECT-ORIENTED ENVIRONMENT;- 9. ABILITY TO IDENTIFY, TRACE, ISOLATE AND REPLICATE PROBLEMS AND SUCCESSFULLY CONDUCT ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS AS REQUIRED;- 10. EXPERIENCE IN DOCUMENTING IN DETAIL THE UAT TEST CASES, AND OTHER RELATED UAT ARTIFACTS;- 11. NEED TO HAVE EXPERIENCE TESTING BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT BASED APPLICATION- 12. EXPERIENCE IN MANAGING DEFECT REPORTING AND RESOLUTION DURING THE DEFECT CYCLE, THIS INCLUDES WORKING WITH THE USER ACCEPTANCE TEST LEAD TO REPORT AND RESOLVE DEFECTS IN A TIMELY MANNER;- 13. DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPMENT OF TEST PLAN AND REUSABLE TEST CASES; AND- 14. EXCELLENT ANALYTICAL AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS; EXCELLENT ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERBAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION SKILLS- 15. PARTICIPATES IN ONGOING PROCESS IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS TO ENSURE TEST AUTOMATION IS PROMOTED AND APPLIED EFFECTIVELY ACROSS MULTIPLE TEAMS- 16. RESEARCHE