Job Description

RQ09608 - Sr. Systems Testing/QA Specialist

Onsite / 21 College Street, Toronto

Security Level: CRJMC

Scope:

• Contribute towards testing activities for the delivery and product management life cycle of the CDT Integrations project. The resource will be responsible for the following activities:
• Lead in the development of test strategy, preparation of test cases / scenarios, test scripts, regression test cases/scenarios required to verify solution and system.
• Manage all test activities including stress/load testing.
• Execute test scripts to verify solution.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts.
• Execute the automated test scripts and create test reports.
• Reconcile, manage, record and track system or functional defects, break/fixes identified during unit and user acceptance testing.
• Communication with project manager 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 plans, test scripts, test data and data validation.
• Automate all the test cases using automation scripts.
• Supervise the executing of manual test cases and report test results.
• Oversee the documentation of software defects and track resolution and communicate defect related issues to project team.
• Development of test plans, test cases and test scripts to validate the functionality of various modules.
• Ability to create test plan, test cases and test scripts to validate those changes made to the application.
• Plan, facilitate and support User Acceptance Testing and lead UAT sessions.
• Provide guidance to the business users during User Acceptance Testing
• 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 manager and project team
• Working closely with QA teams and developers, leading 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.
• Write automation test script using Selenium, JMeters, and Python or Java.

Must-Have's:

• 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 all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle
• Experience on Automation testing script using Selenium, JMeter, Python or Java.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills, verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• Conceptual skills to see the big picture and assist in integrating QA/testing processes and standards