Quality Assurance Analyst
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CONTRACT
Canada
Posted 10 months ago
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Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Quality Assurance Analyst
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 3 days on-site
Industry: Government
Job ID number: C1407
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
Job Features
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