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 Analysis' 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

• 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, VBScript 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