Role System Testing/QA Specialist Office location Toronto, ON(Hybrid)
Duration 1st April 2025 - 31st March 2026 Might be extended

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

Required 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 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
• 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 of meeting deadlines
• Knowledge of one or more automated testing tools
• 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 with Azure Devops tools, to be able to enter defects and access user stories
• Experience testing Power BI applications
• Good experience as a QA team lead, coaching and working with junior team members to support transition by automating test cases

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Must Haves

• Experience with testing low code/no code solutions such as: Power Platform, Power BI and Dynamics 365
• Experience leveraging Azure DevOps for test case management, bug tracking

Technical Knowledge and Expertise - 85%

• Experience with testing low code/no code solutions such as: Power Platform, Power BI and Dynamics 365
• Experience leveraging Azure DevOps for test case management, bug tracking
• Creating and executing test cases, focusing on both functional and non-functional requirements
• Work with team, BAs, stakeholders (internal and external) across the program to develop clearly understand defined user stories.
• Experience with 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.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and relevant guidelines
• Experience with AODA testing tools such as NVDA and Accessibility Insights for web, WAVE (Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool)
• Test planning Involves activities of defining the objectives of testing and the approach for meeting test objectives.
• Test Strategy create a test strategy based on project requirements and schedules.
• Analyze the defects and identify the root cause.
• Troubleshoot defects, such that it does not affect the product quality.
• Report defects to software developers by recording software defects in Azure tools
• Inform the test progress against a schedule of the quality management.
• Conduct different test procedures, report issues, and follow up on the status of the issues.
• Monitor and analyze the performance using tools for efficient and problem-free operations.
• Uncover vulnerabilities in the system and determine that its data and resources are protected from intruders.
• Provides a test summary report that reflects the software under the test's top-notch quality.
• Lead and support UAT to get sign-offs
• Able to collaborate with the product owner and stakeholders to clarify user stories and acceptance criteria
• Experience in working with Agile teams and project

Communication and Project Management Skills - 15%

• Knowledge of project management and knowledge of task estimation, scheduling and control
• Development of documentation and materials as part of a review and knowledge transfer to other members
• Development of specific activities as part of a review (hand over to ministry staff) and building block approach which, builds on knowledge transfer and skills development from the previous stage to the next
• Able to Interact well with BA, stakeholders, project manager, development team, and clients as per need.

Must Haves

• Experience with testing low code/no code solutions such as: Power Platform, Power BI and Dynamics 365
• Experience leveraging Azure DevOps for test case management, bug tracking

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