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
  

Desirable Skills:

• 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)
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Expert experience in scripting, executing, and maintaining automated API/web service tests using:
  
• Third-party tools such as readyapi, soapui and Postman
  
• Design/coding techniques such as schema validation, parameter passing, and Groovy scripting
  
• Hands-on testing experience with IBM websphere Application Server, Oracle, structured SQL-based query languages, and IBM API Connect platform.
  
• QA testing experience (functional and non-functional) of rest-based transactional web services in an n-tier Java EE server environment
  

Nice to have:

• Ideally in the context of occupational and/or business registry systems
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Quality Assurance Methodology:

• Senior System Tester with 3+ years of experience in process, planning, organizing and implementing testing efforts
  
• Experience with integration testing strategies for asynchronous and event-driven architectures
  
• Extensive background in testing system integrations in service-oriented and microservices environments
  
• Experience with manual testing
  
• Experience in working with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software.
  
• Knowledge and experience in testing of the Registry system (ex. Catalyst).
  
• Knowledge of the systems development cycle (SDLC), software test life cycle (STLC), project management.
  
• Knowledge of application development methodologies, techniques and methods, structured
  

Quality Assurance Experience:

• Analysis and design methodology, techniques; structured testing
  
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps for test case management, pipelines, and defect tracking
  
• Solid understanding of web service protocols including SOAP, REST, HTTP, XML, and JSON
  
• Proficient in testing REST and SOAP APIs, security, and data integrity through structured request/response analysis
  
• Analysis of business requirements and functional designs
  
• Knowledge of Risk and evidence-based testing
  
• Analysis of business rules
  
• Creation of the test cases, traceability matrix
  
• Defining the expected results
  
• Creation of test data, test user accounts
  
• Creation of database queries to select test data and ensure database integrity
  
• Recording the results of the testing in DevOps/JIRA
  
• Experience in entry, exit and acceptance testing criteria
  

Nice to have:

• Presentations to project and team members.
  
• Cross training to project and team members.
  
• Internet and Intranet, operating systems, databases, network protocols, and data transformation.
  
• Excellent written communication skills to document and report complex findings from testing projects to project owners.
  
• Identifying the test scenarios