Systems Testing/qa Specialist

**Position: Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Senior**

**Location: 5700 Yonge St. Toronto**

**Security Level: CRJMC**

Please provide the reference when the interview has been requested.
- 3 days in a week

**Must-haves**:

- 5+ years of experience
- Knowledge of Oracle EBS Financial Suite (GL, AP, AR, Cash Management, Fixed Asset) and Curam
- Knowledge and understanding of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and relevant guidelines
- Knowledge of Systems Development Life Cycle Methodologies, familiarity with ITIL Processes for Change/Release Management, relational database technologies, and use of information retrieval packages using SQL and other query languages.
- Experience coding automated test scripts to produce sets of automated test cases

**Description**

**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

**General Skills**:

- Experience in planning, organizing and implementing testing efforts at the specified experience level
- 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
- Knowledge of Oracle EBS Financial Suite (GL, AP, AR, Cash Management, Fixed Asset) and Curam
- 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

**Desirable 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 Management principles, concepts, policies and practices.
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
- 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 Shelf Applications (COTS)

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Please note this role is part of a Hybrid Work Arrangement and resource(s) will be required to work at a minimum of 3 days per week or as agreed with manager at 5700 Yonge St.

**Business Analysis and Problem-Solving Skills - 35%**
- Work with stakeholders (internal and external) across the program to develop clearly defined epics and user stories.
- Gather information on client problems, services and business goals/objectives
- Help the program understand their needs and translate to design models and concepts
- Evaluate requirements and review options for a solution, assess cost/benefit of options, evaluate alternative conceptual systems designs and potential impact of proposed system changes on existing service delivery
- Recommend approaches and discuss with team and stakeholders
- Translate from technical terminology to business terms

**Technical Knowledge and Expertise - 35%**
- Experience in conceptual design of enterprise data warehouses and extensive experience in data management supporting development teams - working on requirements gathering and design documentation
- Knowledge of Oracle EBS Financial Suite (GL, AP, AR, Cash Management, Fixed Asset) and Curam
- Advanced technical knowled