RQ11871 - Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Senior

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design of test strategy, plans, scenarios, scripts, or procedures for testing
  

General Skills:

• Experience co-ordinating the test strategy and plan with project managers and others
  
• Experience writing and reviewing a test strategy for the project, and test policy for the organization.
  
• Experience contributing the testing perspective to other project activities, such as development, integration testing, etc.
  
• Experience planning the tests - considering the context and understanding the test objectives and risk - including selecting test approaches, estimating the time, effort and cost of testing, acquiring resources, defining test levels, cycles and planning incident management
  
• Experience initiating the specification, preparation, implementation and execution of tests, monitor the test results and check the exit criteria
  
• Experience adapting planning based on test results and progress(tweaking the plan) and take necessary actions to compensate for problems
  
• Experience introducing suitable metrics for measuring test progress and evaluating the quality of the testing and product.
  
• Experience providing input to test automation strategy, test automation framework roadmap
  
• Experience selecting tools to support testing and organize any training in tool use for testers
  
• Experience coordinating usage and assignment of test environment with all stakeholders.
  
• Experience writing test summary reports based on the information gathered during testing.
  
• Experience executing full lifecycle software development
  
• Experience programming well-designed, testable, efficient code
  
• Experience creating / producing specifications and determine operational feasibility
  
• Experience leading / providing guidance to team members
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 8+ years of QA testing using Agile, hybrid, and waterfall SDLC methodologies.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Mandatory Technical Skills and Experience:

• 8+ years of QA testing using agile, hybrid and waterfall SDLC methodologies.
  
• Provide comprehensive and detailed hands-on testing covering cloud-based Java technologies including JSON, RESTful Web Services, HTML5.
  
• Develop plans, execute testing and produce testing artefacts providing assurance of software quality.
  
• Documenting errors and defect tracking management
  
• Creation and implementation test strategy, plans for testing software, debugging code, and enhancing the usability of programs.
  
• Proficient in the use of SQL in supporting testing activities
  
• Experience with AODA testing and use of related tools
  
• Experience in project management and QA approaches
  
• Working knowledge of testing tools such Azure DevOps, Postman
  
• Knowledge to design and ability to write automation test scripts
  
• Working knowledge of test management software tools
  

Soft Skills and Experience:

• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
  
• Attention to detail.
  
• Professional team player with ability to liaison with non-technical and technical team members as it relates to QA testing.
  
• Ability to understand technical and business/customer requirements in ensuring full scope of testing is captured and executed.
  
• Strong organizational skills
  
• Critical time and work management 
  

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Desirable Technical Skills and Experience:

• Testing experience with information systems related to soil management
  
• Working knowledge of GIS spatial datasets
  
• Working knowledge of programming scripting languages such as python.
  
• Engineering or Computer Science background degree