Description
This role is under a hybrid work arrangement and requires working 3 days in the office at 40 St. Clair Ave. West, Toronto and 2 days remote from home office within Ontario.
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
· 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 Analysis’ 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
Knowledge Transfer Requirements
· Knowledge transfer is expected to occur throughout the duration of the assignment through regular meetings, touchpoints, and working sessions with LRC staff
· All design, development, artefacts, and source code, including all relevant and complete documents must be transferred to the ministry in the designated repositories provided
· Dedicated knowledge transfer sessions will be scheduled to ensure completeness of knowledge transfer and all documentation is shared, and allow LRC staff to ask clarification and/or follow up questions
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Manual Testing Skills/Experience - 65%
· 10+ years experience developing Test Cases/Scripts and Data Requirements, develop test scenarios, test cases for manual testing
· 10+ years experience develop test cases/scripts as well as test data, ensuring all of the Business requirements are met by creating a traceability matrix.
· 10+ years experience developing technical testing strategies / plans
· 10+ years experience testing non-functional requirements (e.g. fail-over, component response times, data integrity, security)
· 10+ years experience executing testing activities for a number of types of testing such as:
o Integration testing
o Unit testing
o Regression testing
o Functional testing
o Accessibility testing
o Non-functional testing
· Demonstrated experience in developing test plans, test scripts and test data; documenting software defects and tracking resolutions.
· Experience with User Acceptance Testing and leading initial UAT sessions
Soft Skills - 30%
· Experience with agile methodology
· Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
· Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
· Excellent meeting facilitation skills to gather requirements
· Experience reporting progress on deliverables to team, project leads and management, including proactively raising risks/issues with mitigations
· Strong stakeholder management skills
· Demonstrated experience working with clients and technical teams to ensure effective resolution of defects and management of change requests are complete
· Experience with User Acceptance Testing and leading initial UAT sessions
Public Sector Experience – 5%
· Experience in testing enterprise level systems and exposure to ministry QA processes and standards within OPS
· Previous experience working in Government or Public Sector organizations.
· Demonstrated knowledge of Public Sector applications, databases and systems while testing
· Experience working in accordance with policies and procedures of the Ontario Public Service
· Working knowledge of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
· Experience in quality assurance at the specified experience level
· Experience in testing Commercial off the Shelf Software (COTS/SaaS solutions), preferably Oracle Siebel Public Sector
· Working knowledge of SharePoint, .NET Web, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript and related scripting technologies for automation
· 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
· Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills, verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal 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