Quality Assurance Analyst

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Brief Description on Duties:

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

Skills

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:
• 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