Job Description

Responsibilities:

Collaborates with product managers, product owners, and technical team to develop test strategies and test plans

Strong understanding of manual testing practices to support developing manual test scripts, test cases and/or test scenarios

Assist with planning and creating test data as it relates to each test phase

Executes quality assurance and testing activities for various types of testing such as integration testing, functional testing, regression testing, unit testing, load testing, performance testing and accessibility testing

Plans and organizes testing efforts in both front-end and back-end application components/environments

Communicate test results regularly through reports that summarize test completion and defects found

Help with the implementation of the project technical testing strategy and methodology. This includes testing of integration points and interfaces and non-functional requirements (e.g. fail-over, component response times, data integrity, security)

Evaluate test results against acceptance criteria to determine successful completion of the sprint increment

Defines and measures acceptance criteria for test cases

Record all defects/issues in the Cluster's defect reporting tool (Jira), including detailed descriptions, screenshots, and steps to re-produce

Participate in elicitation and business requirement workshop sessions, sprint reviews and/or walkthrough meetings

Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the agile / iterative solution development lifecycle

Conducts post-release / post-implementation testing

Supports clients with user acceptance testing (UAT) activities

Creates traceability matrix to ensure testing outcomes align with business requirements

Coordinate and facilitate regular defect review meetings with Business Analysts and Business stakeholders

Provide testing and defect status updates in daily scrum stand-ups, team meetings as required

Provide weekly report confirming status of assigned tasks

Knowledge Transfer Requirements:

Knowledge transfer is expected to occur throughout the duration of the assignment through regular meetings, touchpoints, and working sessions with staff

All design, development, artefacts, and source code, including all relevant and complete documents must be transferred to the ministry in the designated repositories provided

Dedicated knowledge transfer sessions will be scheduled to ensure completeness of knowledge transfer and all documentation is shared, and allow staff to ask clarification and/or follow up questions

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Experience in quality assurance at the specified experience level

Experience in testing Commercial off the Shelf Software (COTS/SaaS solutions), preferably Oracle Siebel Public Sector

Working knowledge of SharePoint, .NET Web, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript, Java, Perl and related scripting technologies for automation

Knowledge and experience in the use of test tools and methodologies (Waterfall/Agile/Iterative)

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.

Product cycle (functional & non-functional) testing experience

Test case & Test Scenario design and review experience (from business requirements)

Test case development experience

Experience in defect tracking

Test scenarios (use-cases) design and review

Experience in writing manual/automated test scripts