Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Intermediate

Job ID: RQ11170 - Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Intermediate

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• 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.

• Identifies, document, and track software defects using tools like ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla, and Azure DevOps.

• Develops and maintains automated test scripts using tools like Micro Focus, OpenText™ UFT, Selenium, TestComplete, or Postman.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

General Skills:

• Knowledge and experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools and data query tools to aid in the development of test cases

• Experience executing functional tests, non-functional tests and systems level integration tests

• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.

• Experience with tools like ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla, TestRail, Zephyr, etc.

• Familiarity with tools like Selenium, Cypress, or Postman for API testing.

• Understanding of scripting languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Bash) for automation or test data setup.

• Experience developing and managing robust test data strategies, including generating realistic and sufficient test data, ensuring data privacy, and managing test data environments.

• Experience developing and executing performance test scripts using tools like JMeter or LoadRunner, and analyzing performance bottlenecks and system scalability.

• Experience testing Commercial Off-the Shelf Applications (COTS)

• Experience creating test cases and test scenarios in Azure DevOps

• 5+ years developing automation test scripts with multiple Tools

• Experience performing Load Test

•  5-10 years of hands-on experience Performing automation testing and developing test scripts

• Experience with Screen Readers, Syntax Checking tools, Colour-Contract tools, browser tools/toolbars.

• Extensive experience performing functional and regression testing through manual testing and automation.

•  Experience with HTML 5, WAI-ARIA tags, UX and front-end development

• Ability to provide coding, system and architecture recommendations to ensure application is Accessible

• Experience with development tools (Java, Angular JS) and ability to provide coding recommendation for Accessibility remediation

• Experience with User Experience Interface design and architecture.

• Bi-lingual testing experience is a strong asset

QA experience:

• 5 – 10 years of experience with DevOps/Agile/Scrum Methodology working with Web and Mobile technologies, as well as different OS/Platforms

• Solid experience creating Test Strategy/Test Plan document

• 5-10 years of hands- on experience with BRD: analyzing business requirements and creating test data requirements

• Proven experience with identifying bugs in software; excellent ability to document and explain bugs/issues to Dev and business teams

• Experienced in Test Automation, preparing scripts/updating existing scripts, run the scrips and capture results.

• 5-10 years of hands-on experience with system testing, system integration testing

• Extensive experience in Quality Assurance preparing Test Plans, Test Cases and executing and monitoring unit, integration and UAT testing while working directly with clients

• Manual system testing and integration testing experience including creating test cases and test plans

Must Have Skills:

• Solid experience with triaging defects, participating and leading triage meetings, and producing defect summary reports.

• Extensive experience performing regression testing manually and automation scripts

• 5-10 years of experience with different automation and manual testing types: black box testing, penetration testing, security testing, system testing, unit testing, AODA and UAT testing

• Extensive experience with preparing detailed test cases to test functionality

• Hands on experience with various defect tracking tools such as Azure DevOps

Nice to have:

• Prior OPS or public sector exp. 

• Contact centre exp.