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.
  

Requirements

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