Systems Testing/QA Specialist

Project Overview

DEEP is undergoing a contract transition with its new MSP, Bell Canada, and requires additional resources to maintain service continuity, provide technical transition support, and knowledge transfer. The resources are essential for modernization and integration of the EP and supporting ongoing project delivery for OPS program area ministries.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide advice on the testing strategy, test plans, the selection of testing tools, and the identification of resources required for testing plans and organize 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).
• Develop test plans, test scripts and test cases and execute them against various components. 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.
• Provide advice on the testing strategy, test plans, the selection of testing tools, and the identification of resources required for testing. Plan and organize 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.
• Develop and execute automation testing on multiple solutions.
• Excellent knowledge and hands on experience of SQL queries for validating/creating/extracting test data.

Qualifications & Requirements

REQUIRED

• Must be able to work 5 days onsite per week
• Solid experience with triaging defects, participating and leading triage meetings, and producing defect summary reports.
• Extensive experience performing regression testing manually and automation scripts
• 5-10 years of experience with different automation and manual testing types: black box testing, penetration testing, security testing, system testing, unit testing, AODA and UAT testing
• Extensive experience with preparing detailed test cases to test functionality
• Hands on experience with various defect tracking tools such as Azure DevOps

NICE TO HAVE

• Bi-lingual testing experience

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Experience & Skill Set - 30%

• Solid experience with triaging defects, participating and leading triage meetings, and producing defect summary reports.
• Hands on experience with various defect tracking tools such as Azure DevOps
• Experience creating test cases and test scenarios in Azure DevOps
• 5+ years developing automation test scripts with multiple Tools
• Extensive experience performing regression testing manually and automation scripts
• Experience performing Load Test
• 5-10 years of hands-on experience Performing automation testing and developing test scripts
• Experience with Screen Readers, Syntax Checking tools, Colour-Contract tools, browser tools/toolbars.
• Extensive experience performing functional and regression testing through manual testing and automation.
• Experience with HTML 5, WAI-ARIA tags, UX and front-end development
• Ability to provide coding, system and architecture recommendations to ensure application is Accessible
• Experience with development tools (Java, Angular JS) and ability to provide coding recommendation for Accessibility remediation
• Experience with User Experience Interface design and architecture.
• Bi-lingual testing experience is a strong asset

QA experience - 35%

• 5 – 10 years of experience with DevOps/Agile/Scrum Methodology working with Web and Mobile technologies, as well as different OS/Platforms
• 5-10 years of experience with different automation and manual testing types: black box testing, penetration testing, security testing, system testing, unit testing, AODA and UAT testing
• Solid experience creating Test Strategy/Test Plan document
• 5-10 years of hands- on experience with BRD: analyzing business requirements and creating test data requirements
• Extensive experience with preparing detailed test cases to test functionality
• Proven experience with identifying bugs in software; excellent ability to document and explain bugs/issues to Dev and business teams
• Solid experience with triaging defects, participating and leading triage meetings, and producing defect summary reports.
• Hands on experience with various defect tracking tools such as Azure DevOps
• Experience creating test cases and test scenarios in Azure DevOps
• Experienced in Test Automation, preparing scripts/updating existing scripts, run the scrips and capture results.
• 5-10 years of hands-on experience with system testing, system integration testing
• Extensive experience in Quality Assurance preparing Test Plans, Test Cases and executing and monitoring unit, integration and UAT testing while working directly with clients
• Manual system testing and integration testing experience including creating test cases and test plans

Automation Testing/Technical experience - 35%

• Experience developing automation testing scripts
• Performing functional and regression testing with multiple automation tools
• Experience generating test data through DB queries/DB model analysis

Key Skills & Competencies

SQL, Azure DevOps, Automation Testing, Regression Testing, Manual Testing, Load Testing, Screen Readers, Syntax Checking Tools, Colour Contrast Tools, Browser Tools, HTML5, WAI-ARIA, UX Design, Front-end Development, Java, Angular JS, Accessibility Testing, AODA, Defect Triage, Test Data Generation, System Integration Testing, DevOps, Agile, Scrum, Web Technologies, Mobile Technologies, Black Box Testing, Penetration Testing, Security Testing, System Testing, Unit Testing, UAT Testing, Test Strategy, Test Planning, Bug Tracking, Functional Testing, DB Queries, DB Model Analysis, GUI Testing, Non-GUI Testing, Testing Tools, Test Cases, Test Plans, Test Scripts