QA 8331-1811

Dheya; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Quality Assurance Specialist to enhance their testing strategy. Candidates will be responsible for developing test plans and coordinating efforts in both manual and automated testing environments. This hybrid position requires strong analytical skills and extensive experience in quality assurance processes, ideally within an Agile framework, to ensure high standards of software quality and accessibility.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in QA with automation testing.
• Experience in DevOps / Agile / Scrum methodologies.
• Ability to provide coding and architecture recommendations for Accessibility.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans and scripts for various components.
• Lead triage meetings and create defect summary reports.
• Ensure application accessibility compliance with AODA standards.

Skills

Test Automation

SQL

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Communication

Job description

HM Note : This hybrid contract role is three (3) days in office. Candidates resume must include first and last name.

Responsibilities :

• Provides advice on the testing strategy, test plans, the selection of testing tools, and the identification of resources required for testing.
• 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.

General Skills :

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, integration testing, load testing, performance testing, etc.

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.

A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.

Knowledge of one or more automated testing tools.

Knowledge and experience in at least one programming language.

Experience in the use of information retrieval packages.

Knowledge and understanding of testing methods in an object-oriented environment.

Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies, and practices.

Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.

Experience planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems.

Experience coding automated test scripts to produce sets of automated test cases.

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

Experience & Skill Set :

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

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

5+ years developing automation test scripts with multiple Tools.

Extensive experience performing regression testing manually and through automation scripts.

Experience performing Load Testing.

5-10 years of hands-on experience performing automation testing and developing test scripts.

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

Experience with HTML5, 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, AngularJS) and ability to provide coding recommendations for Accessibility remediation.

Experience with User Experience Interface design and architecture.

QA Experience :

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

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.

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

Extensive experience with preparing detailed test cases to test functionality.

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

Automation Testing / Technical Experience :

Performing functional and regression testing with multiple automation tools.

Experience generating test data through DB queries / DB model analysis.

Must Haves :

Experienced in Test Automation, preparing scripts / updating existing scripts, running the scripts, and capturing results.

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

Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience of SQL queries for validating / creating / extracting test data.

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