Rq09902

RQ Int. Systems Testing/QA Specialist

4 months contract

ONSITE - 40 St. Clair Ave. West, Toronto

Land & Resources Cluster - Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement

To respond to the priorities of the Government of Ontario through the passage of the Bill 5, Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act 2025, the resource may be partially assigned to Bill 5 related projects or initiatives on an as needed basis.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for functional, regression, and integration testing
• Use automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Appium, or similar to create robust and reusable test scripts.
• 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 Clusters 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

Must Have

• 5+ years experience developing Test Cases/Scripts and Data Requirements, develop test scenarios, test cases for manual testing
• 5+ years experience develop test cases/scripts as well as test data, ensuring all of the Business requirements are met by creating a traceability matrix.
• 5+ years of experience in developing and testing software applications using automated testing
• Familiarity with RESTful services and SOAP