Application QA Specialist

Purpose:

Reporting to the Director, Operational Excellence, the Application Quality Assurance Specialist plans, designs, constructs, and executes, tests of distributed computing systems across York University, with a view to providing comprehensive reports to application owners regarding functional, performance, and security characteristics. Serving as an expert technical resource and consultant, the Application QA Specialist initiates and leads projects that focus on automating manual testing processes.

Education:

University degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Mathematics or an equivalent of 4 years recent experience (defined as within the last five years) working at York University and performing the same or similar tasks. This education equivalency is in addition to the experiential requirements outlined below. Extensive theoretical and practical knowledge of: software operating and database systems, computer networks, distributed computing, programming, distributed systems security and enterprise systems. Extensive and formal training/specialization in software quality assurance and testing theory and methods.

Experience:

5 years' experience developing and executing quality assurance and test plans for the development and testing of a variety of large complex systems over a period of years. This includes: making realistic assessments of the systems, determining requirements and developing plans based on specific requirements, keeping in mind financial and human resource limitations, and the technical complexity of the production systems.

Skills:

Excellent analytical skills and evaluative skills.

Excellent written communications skills.

Excellent oral communication skills to elicit accurate information and respond to inquiries from all levels of the University hierarchy.

Ability to work and communicate with the external community in a professional and business-like manner.

Teaching and instructing others in the use of hardware and software systems.

Persuasiveness.

Ability and willingness to work effectively as a member of a team.

Good organizational skills.

Strong service orientation coupled with an ability to assess the operational significance of a problem and to set priorities accordingly.

Exercising tact and diplomacy.

Maintaining confidentiality.

Dealing calmly and effectively with people evaluating, implementing and modifying systems, attending accurately to details.

Meeting short/long term deadlines.

Setting priorities and working effectively under pressure of high volume.

Ability and willingness to keep up to date with computer system developments and technologies.

Solid implementation skills in application and web servers (setting up servers to run these programs).

Ability to understand and predict an application's performance characteristics based on an examination of its architecture and load testing results.

Additional Notes:

This position requires the candidate to produce a verification of degree(s), credentials(s), or equivalencies from accredited institutions and/or international equivalents at the time of interview.

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