Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Senior

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SUMMARY

Join our team as a Senior QA Specialist supporting Bill 5 initiatives for the Government of Ontario. In this hybrid role (2 days onsite, 3 remote), you’ll lead end-to-end QA efforts, from test strategy to execution, using tools like Selenium and Azure DevOps. You'll ensure robust software delivery through functional, integration, regression, and AODA compliance testing. The role involves Agile methodologies, automated testing, and close collaboration with business and technical teams. Ideal for QA professionals with over 5 years of experience in system testing, test case development, defect tracking, and continuous process improvement across BPM-based and enterprise-level applications

Description

To respond to the priorities of the Government of Ontario through the passage of the Bill 5, Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act 2025, the resource may be partially assigned to Bill 5 related projects or initiatives on an as needed basis.

Hybrid work: 2 days in the office at (office location address) and 3 days remote from home office within Ontario;

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 .

Responsibilities/Assignment Deliverables:

Strong background in, and at least 3+ years of working in QA automation using Selenium or similar tool
Compose manual and automated test scripts for new functionality
Knowledge of Agile SCRUM preferred.
Thorough understanding of SDLC, specifically automated QA processes in agile development environments
Building test infrastructures using containerization technologies such as Docker and working within continuous delivery / continuous release pipeline processes
Participate in business requirement review and walk through meetings;
Collaborate with the Ministry to develop a Test Strategy and Plan for the pilot implementation
Provide feedback to Drive Clean Management regarding the completeness and quality of the proposed vendor plan to execute
Functional testing;
Application integration (links, connections, security transactions between functions and main modules);
System testing (end-to-end testing);
Regression testing;
User Acceptance testing;
Execute UAT test cases and document the results
Record application defects reported in the Cluster’s defect reporting tool – Azure
Coordinate and facilitate regular defect review meeting with stakeholders
Provide defect status reports throughout the testing cycles
Participate in regular project team meeting and provide status and update as required;
Provide weekly report confirming status of assigned tasks

The selected Testing/QA Specialist will be expected to ensure that the proposed Test

Strategy / Test plans include the following correction procedure.

1. Prioritize problems based on severity level definitions;

2. Identify problems, isolate them and document as defect;

3. Regression test for resolved defects

The selected Testing/QA Specialist will be expected to ensure that the proposed Test

Strategy / Test plans includes the following:

Functional testing:
- Component level testing;
- Low level (test cases, GUI, check lists);
- Functional (test existing functions, sub-functions and their objects);
- Non-functional (boundary conditions- “login” and “password” windows, security issues);

and,

Data and Database Integrity Testing
- The databases and the database processes should be tested as separate systems within the test plan. These systems should be tested without the application (as the interface to the data).
System Testing
- System testing should focus on any target requirements that can be traced directly to use cases (or business functions), and business rules. The goals of these tests are to verify proper data acceptance, processing, and retrieval, and the appropriate implementation of the business rules.
Load Testing
- Load testing measures subject the system-under-test to varying workloads to evaluate the systems ability to continue to function properly under these different workloads. The goal of load testing is to determine and ensure that the system functions properly beyond the expected maximum workload. Additionally, load testing evaluates the performance characteristics (response times, transaction rates, and other time sensitive issues).
Security and Access Control Testing
Experience in doing AODA testing for WebUI and Documents
Security and access control testing focus on two key areas of security:
Application security, including access to the data or business functions, and system security, including logging into / remote access to the application
- Application security which ensures that, based upon the desired security, users are restricted to specific functions or are limited in the data that is available to them. For example, everyone may be permitted to enter data and create new accounts, but only managers can delete them. If there is security at the data level, testing ensures that ‘user “type” one’ can see all customer information, including financial data, however, ‘user “type” two’ only sees the demographic data for the same ministry. System security ensures that only those users granted access to the system are capable of accessing the application and only through the appropriate gateways.

Configuration Testing
- Configuration testing verifies operation of the software on different software and hardware configurations. In most production environments, the particular hardware specifications for the Client workstations, network connections and database servers vary. Client workstations may have different software loaded (e.g. applications, rivers, etc.) and at any one time many different combinations may be active and using different resources.

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements1. 5 or more years of experience as a Systems Testing/QA Specialist;

2. Experience with Agile Scrum methodologies

3. Experience with Agile Sprint Management and Bug tracking solutions such as Azure

4. Experience running automated tests

5. Experience working with Selenium to develop automated test cases

6. Use Azure or other bug tracking tools.

7. Demonstrated experience in all functions of system testing;

8. Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of testing methods in an object-oriented environment;

9. Ability to identify, trace, isolate and replicate problems and successfully conduct root cause analysis as required;

10. Experience in documenting in detail the UAT Test Cases, and other related UAT artifacts;

11. Need to have experience testing Business Process Management based application

12. Experience in managing defect reporting and resolution during the defect cycle, this includes working with the user acceptance test lead to report and resolve defects in a timely manner;

13. Demonstrated experience in development of test plan and reusable test cases; and

14. Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills; excellent English language verbal and written communication skills

15. Participates in ongoing process improvement efforts to ensure test automation is promoted and applied effectively across multiple teams

16. Researches tools, methods, and technology trends to support departmental test automation objectives

Component: Analysis & Design

Product: RUP Methodology, Enterprise Architecture (Zachman Framework), specifically rows 3-5, IBM® Rational Rose® Version 2003.06.00

Component: Web Browser

Product: Internet Explorer I.E. Chrome, (Firefox if application is external [outside OPS] facing)

Component: Office Automation Tools

Product: Microsoft Office®, including Exchange/Outlook

Component: Testing Tools

Product: IBM® AppScan Version 8.5, Selenium, Azure Dev Ops Test Plan

Component: Defect Tracking Tool

Product: Azure Dev Ops

QA Skills - 40%

Demonstrated 5+ years of experience in all functions of system testing
Demonstrated experience in Agile test methodology
Demonstrated experience in developing and running automated test cases
Demonstrated experience with documenting in detail the UAT artifacts the UAT test
cases, UAT execution findings
Demonstrated experience with the Software development life cycle (SDLC)
Demonstrated experience with software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
Demonstrated experience in developing Test Cases, Test Strategies, Test plans;
including Test Case Execution, Defect Triaging, and Defect Logging

Automation Testing - 15%

Demonstrated the ability to Plan and develop Test Plans and Test Cases to ensure
development outputs meet defined specification cases in coordination with Business
requirements, Technical Specifications, installers / upgrades documents, and
management.
Demonstrates the ablity to use existing tools and techniques to execute test cases and
build/script new tools for performing testing/validation function.
Develop and execute automation scripts using automation tools (primarily) Selenium
and other automation tools.
Ability to execute and analyze automation test results.

Technical Skills - 20%

Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of testing methods in an object-oriented environment
Demonstrated knowledge in testing applications in BPM 8.6
SOAP/ Rest UI Backend testing

Defect Management - 15%

Demonstrated experience in defect management process, using defect management
tools, and reporting defect status
Demonstrated experience in identifying, tracing, isolating and replicating problems and
successfully conducting root cause analysis
Experienced with using defect management tools for QA/QC work such as Rational
Document, track and escalate issues as appropriate, using Azure Devops or similar tools/means

Communication Skills - 10%

Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills; strong verbal and written communication
skills.
Articulate, detail oriented, hard-working, team player being able to work under pressure

Hybrid work: 2 days in the office at 40 St. Claire Avenue West, Toronto. and 3 days remote from home office within Ontario;

Max no of submission- 1(one)

Must haves:

Demonstrated 5+ years of experience in all functions of system testing
Demonstrated experience in Agile test methodology
Demonstrated the ability to Plan and develop Test Plans and Test Cases to ensuredevelopment outputs meet defined specification cases in coordination with Business requirements, Technical Specifications, installers / upgrades documents, and management.