RQ10580 - Int. Systems Testing/QA Specialist
1-year contract (219 business days)
ONSITE 5 days - 21 College Street, Toronto
Security Level: CRJMC
MUST HAVES:
- 8+ years of demonstrated QA experience, including leading QA teams, defect tracking using a collaborative tool to manage defects and change request and to communicate status of these to all project participants
- Hands on experiences with technologies such as SharePoint, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript and VBScript, COTS, SaaS, Cloud applications
- Demonstrated experience in test management (Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Execution), defect management (Defect Life Cycle and Triage) and Test Execution Reporting.
- Demonstrated experience working with clients and technical teams to ensure effective resolution of defects and management of change requests are complete.
- SQL
- Experience with User Acceptance Testing and UAT sessions
Scope
- Contribute towards testing activities for the delivery and product management life cycle of the CDT project. The resource will be responsible for the following activities:
- Assist in the development of test strategy, preparation of test cases / scenarios, test scripts, regression test cases/scenarios required to verify solution and system.
- Execute all test activities including AODA, data testing, stress/load testing, test scripts to verify solution.
- Reconcile record and track system or functional defects, break/fixes identified during unit and user acceptance testing.
- Communication with project manager, test lead and developers to ensure application quality and alignment with project timelines
Assignment Deliverables
- Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
- Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design test coverage plan.
- Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate potential quality issues to management.
- Develop, document, and maintain functional test cases and other test artifacts like the test scripts, test data and data validation.
- Execution of manual test cases and report test results.
- Document software defects and track resolution.
- Ability to create test plan, test cases and test scripts to validate those changes made to the application
- Support User Acceptance Testing and lead initial UAT sessions.
- Review user documentation and provide feedback to improve application alignment and clarity of the information.
- Management and maintenance of defect log and communication of defect related issues to project team
- Working closely with QA team lead and developers holding triage sessions and ensuring appropriate prioritization of defects
- Working closely with the client lead, prioritize, schedule and remediate defects.
- Prepare test data sets that mimic real-world scenarios, ensuring the data covers a wide range of cases and scenarios.
- Ability to create and execute database queries to extract relevant data
- Execute and evaluate manual/automated test cases and report test results.
- Hold and facilitate test plan/test case reviews with cross functional team members.
Experience and Skillset Requirements
- 8+ years of demonstrated QA experience, including leading QA teams, defect tracking using a collaborative tool to manage defects and change request and to communicate status of these to all project participants
- Knowledge and experience in the use of version control systems on one or more platforms
- Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle
- Conceptual skills to see the big picture and assist in integrating QA/testing processes and standards
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills, verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Experience in planning, organizing and implementing testing efforts at the specified experience level
- Knowledge of structured methodologies for the development, design, implementation and maintenance of applications
- 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, data testing, integration testing, load testing, performance testing, etc.
- Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle
- 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
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Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.
INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)
- $56.19/hr - $60.21/hr Inc.
T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)