RQ09237- Intermediate- Systems Testing/QA Specialist

This is a hybrid role 3 Days onsite .


Advantages
- Earn a competitive rate within the industry
- Potential for extension
- Hybrid – 3 days a week onsite


Responsibilities
• Collaborates with product managers, product owners, and technical team to develop test strategies and test plans

• Strong understanding of manual testing practices to support developing manual test scripts, test cases and/or test scenarios

• Assist with planning and creating test data as it relates to each test phase

• Executes quality assurance and testing activities for various types of testing such as integration testing, functional testing, regression testing, unit testing, load testing, performance testing and accessibility testing

• Plans and organizes testing efforts in both front-end and back-end application components/environments

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for functional, regression, and integration testing

• Use automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Appium, or similar to create robust and reusable test scripts.

• Communicate test results regularly through reports that summarize test completion and defects found

• Help with the implementation of the project technical testing strategy and methodology. This includes testing of integration points and interfaces and non-functional requirements (e.g. fail-over, component response times, data integrity, security)

• Evaluate test results against acceptance criteria to determine successful completion of the sprint increment

• Defines and measures acceptance criteria for test cases

• Record all defects/issues in the Cluster’s defect reporting tool (Jira), including detailed descriptions, screenshots, and steps to re-produce

• Participate in elicitation and business requirement workshop sessions, sprint reviews and/or walkthrough meetings

• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the agile / iterative solution development lifecycle

• Conducts post-release / post-implementation testing

• Supports clients with user acceptance testing (UAT) activities

• Creates traceability matrix to ensure testing outcomes align with business requirements

• Coordinate and facilitate regular defect review meetings with Business Analysts and Business stakeholders

• Provide testing and defect status updates in daily scrum stand-ups, team meetings as required

• Provide weekly report confirming status of assigned tasks


Qualifications
Must haves:

• 5+ years experience developing Test Cases/Scripts and Data Requirements, develop test scenarios, test cases for manual testing

• 5+ years experience develop test cases/scripts as well as test data, ensuring all of the Business requirements are met by creating a traceability matrix.

• 5+ years experience developing technical testing strategies / plans

• 5+ years experience testing non-functional requirements (e.g. fail-over, component response times, data integrity, security)

• 5+ years experience executing testing activities for a number of types of testing such as:

o Integration testing

o Regression testing

o Functional testing

o Accessibility testing

o Non-functional testing

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

• Experience in quality assurance at the specified experience level

• Experience in testing Commercial off the Shelf Software (COTS/SaaS solutions), preferably Oracle Siebel

• Knowledge and experience in the use of test tools and methodologies (Waterfall/Agile/Iterative)

• Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

• Product cycle (functional & non-functional) testing experience

• Test case & Test Scenario design and review experience (from business requirements)

• Test case development experience

• Experience in defect tracking

• Test scenarios (use-cases) design and review

• Experience in writing manual/automated test scripts

• Working knowledge of SharePoint, .NET Web, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript, Java, Perl and related scripting technologies for automation


Summary
If you are interested in the Intermediate- Systems Testing/QA Specialist in Toronto, please apply online at www.randstad.ca. Qualified candidates will be contacted.


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