Overview
RQ- Systems Testing/QA Specialist – Intermediate Jobs in Toronto, Canada at Maarut
Title: RQ- Systems Testing/QA Specialist – Intermediate
Company: Maarut
Location: Toronto, Canada
Category:
Position: RQ11014 – Systems Testing/QA Specialist – Intermediate
Job Description
Scope
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- Contribute towards testing activities for the delivery and product management life cycle of the CDT project. The resource will be responsible for the following activities:
- Assist in the development of test strategy, preparation of test cases / scenarios, test scripts, regression test cases/scenarios required to verify solution and system.
- Execute all test activities including AODA, data testing, stress/load testing, test scripts to verify solution.
- Reconcile record and track system or functional defects, break/fixes identified during unit and user acceptance testing.
- Communication with project manager, test lead and developers to ensure application quality and alignment with project timelines
Assignment Deliverables
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- Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
- Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design test coverage plan.
- Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate potential quality issues to management.
- Develop, document, and maintain functional test cases and other test artifacts like the test scripts, test data and data validation.
- Execution of manual test cases and report test results.
- Document software defects and track resolution.
- Ability to create test plan, test cases and test scripts to validate those changes made to the application
- Support User Acceptance Testing and lead initial UAT sessions.
- Review user documentation and provide feedback to improve application alignment and clarity of the information.
- Management and maintenance of defect log and communication of defect related issues to project team
- Working closely with QA team lead and developers holding triage sessions and ensuring appropriate prioritization of defects
- Working closely with the client lead, prioritize, schedule and remediate defects.
- Prepare test data sets that mimic real-world scenarios, ensuring the data covers a wide range of cases and scenarios.
- Ability to create and execute database queries to extract relevant data
- Execute and evaluate manual/automated test cases and report test results.
- Hold and facilitate test plan/test case reviews with cross functional team members.
Requirements
Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
Must Haves:
- 8+ years of demonstrated QA experience, including leading QA teams, defect tracking using a collaborative tool to manage defects and change request and to communicate status of these to all project participants
- Knowledge and experience in the use of version control systems on one or more platforms
- Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle
- Conceptual skills to see the big picture and assist in integrating QA/testing processes and standards
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills, verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills.
Skill Set Requirements:
Desired Skills and Experience
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- Experience in planning, organizing and implementing testing efforts at the specified experience level
- Knowledge of structured methodologies for the development, design, implementation and maintenance of applications
- 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
- Knowledge and experience in the use of automated test tools and version control systems on one or more platforms
- Experience executing functional tests, non-functional tests and systems level integration tests
- Experience supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities
- Experience with quality assurance principles, practices, tools and structured methodologies
- Experience creating testing strategy documentation, test plans, test cases and test data for various types and phases of testing, including technical and business functional validation
- Experience in quality assurance and testing, including unit testing, data testing, integration testing, load testing, performance testing, etc.
- Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle