Job 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 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 plus 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.
• 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 plus 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.
• 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:

• 5 plus years of experience as a Systems Testing/QA Specialist.
• Experience with Agile Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with Agile Sprint Management and Bug tracking solutions such as Azure.
• Experience running automated tests.
• Experience working with Selenium to develop automated test cases.
• Use Azure or other bug tracking tools.
• Demonstrated experience in all functions of system testing.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of testing methods in an object-oriented environment.
• Ability to identify, trace, isolate and replicate problems and successfully conduct root cause analysis as required.
• Experience in documenting in detail the UAT Test Cases, and other related UAT artifacts.
• Experienced with using defect management tools for QA/QC work (e.g. Rational Team Concert (RTC), Rational Quality Manager (RQM) or similar tools).
• 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.
• Demonstrated experience in development of test plan and reusable test cases.
• Participates in ongoing process improvement efforts to ensure test automation is promoted and applied effectively across multiple teams.
• Researches tools, methods, and technology trends to support departmental test automation objectives.

QA Skills - 40%:

• Demonstrated 5+ years of experience in all functions of system testing.
• Demonstrated experience in Agile test methodology.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and running automated test cases.
• Demonstrated experience with documenting in detail the UAT artifacts the UAT test
• cases, UAT execution findings.
• Demonstrated experience with the Software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Demonstrated experience with software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Demonstrated experience in developing Test Cases, Test Strategies, Test plans; including Test Case Execution, Defect Triaging, and Defect Logging.

Automation Testing - 15%:

• Demonstrated the ability to Plan and develop Test Plans and Test Cases to ensure development outputs meet defined specification cases in coordination with Business requirements, Technical Specifications, installers / upgrades documents, and
• management.
• Demonstrates the ablity to use existing tools and techniques to execute test cases and build/script new tools for performing testing/validation function.
• Develop and execute automation scripts using automation tools (primarily) Selenium and other automation tools.
• Ability to execute and analyze automation test results.

Technical Skills - 20%:

• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of testing methods in an object-oriented environment.
• Demonstrated experience with IBM Rational Functional Tester Version 8.2.1.1 or higher.
• experience with IBM AppScan Version 8.5, IBM Rational Quality Manager Version 4.0, and IBM Rational Performance Tester Version 8.2.
• Demonstrated knowledge in testing applications in BPM 8.6.
• SOAP/ Rest UI Backend testing.

Defect Management - 15%:

• Demonstrated experience in defect management process, using defect management tools, and reporting defect status.
• Demonstrated experience in identifying, tracing, isolating and replicating problems and successfully conducting root cause analysis.
• Experienced with using defect management tools for QA/QC work such as Rational.
• Team Concert version 4.0 (RTC) and Rational Quality Manager (RQM).
• Document, track and escalate issues as appropriate, using JIRA or similar tools/means.

Communication Skills - 10%:

• Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills; strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Articulate, detail oriented, hard-working, team player being able to work under pressure.
• Strong collaboration and negotiation skills.