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