RQ08378 - Sr. Systems Testing/QA Specialist

Contribute towards testing activities for the delivery and product management life cycle of the CDT project. The resource will be responsible for the following activities:

1. Lead and contribute to in the development of test strategy, preparation of test cases and scenarios, test scripts, regression test cases and scenarios required to verify solution and system, and testing summary reporting at the end of testing cycles.
2. Manage and schedule all test activities including test case development, DevOps maintenance activities, AODA and stress/load testing.
3. Lead team and participate in the execution of test cases and scripts to verify solution. Reconcile, manage, record and track system or functional defects, break/fixes identified during unit, system, functional, business and user acceptance testing.

Assignment Deliverables

• Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
• Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design test coverage plan.
• Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate potential quality issues to management.
• Develop, document, and maintain functional, system and UAT test cases and other test artifacts like the test plans, test scripts, test data, test summary reports and data validation.
• Supervise and participate in the executing of manual test cases and report test results. Oversee the documentation of software defects and track resolution and communicate defect related issues to project team.
• Development of test plans, test cases and test scripts to validate the functionality of various modules.
• Ability to create test plan, test cases and test scripts to validate those changes made to the application.
• Support User Acceptance Testing and lead initial UAT sessions, providing guidance to the business users during UAT.
• Review user documentation and provide feedback to improve application alignment and clarity of the information.
• Management and maintenance of defect log and communication of defect related issues to project manager and project team.
• Working closely with QA teams, business resources and developers vendor resources holding or support triage sessions to ensure appropriate logging, tracking, monitoring, prioritization and remediation of defects.
• Prepare test data sets that mimic real-world scenarios, ensuring the data covers a wide range of cases and scenarios.
• Ability to create and execute database queries to extract relevant data.
• Execute and evaluate manual/automated test cases and report test results.
• Hold, facilitate, or support test plan/test case reviews with cross functional team members.

Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Mandatory Requirements

• 8+ years of demonstrated QA experience, including leading QA teams, defect tracking using a collaborative tool to manage defects and change requests and to communicate status of these to all project participants.
• Knowledge and experience in the use of version control systems on one or more platforms, preferably Microsoft DevOps.
• Experience coordinating testing activities with project managers and others team members.
• Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
• Conceptual skills to see the big picture and assist in integrating QA/testing processes and standards.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills; verbal and written communication skills; and interpersonal skills.

Desired Skills and Experience

• 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 automated test tools and version control systems on one or more platforms, like Microsoft DevOps.
• Experience initiating the specification, preparation, implementation and execution of tests, monitor the test results, checking the entrance and exit criteria.
• Experience executing functional tests, non-functional tests and systems level integration tests.
• Experience supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities.
• Experience contributing the testing perspective to other project activities, such as development, integration testing, etc.
• 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 adapting planning based on test results and progress (tweaking the plan) and take necessary actions to compensate for problems.
• Experience in quality assurance and testing, including unit testing, data testing, integration testing, load testing, performance testing, etc.
• Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, with the ability to shift priorities quickly and effectively when needed.

Resumes Evaluation/Criteria:

Criteria 1: Technical Skills - 35 Points

• Hands on experiences with technologies/platforms such as SharePoint, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript and VBScript, COTS, SaaS and Cloud applications.
• Knowledge and experience of automation tools and use of version control systems on one or more platforms.
• Demonstrate knowledge of regression, data and integration testing with enterprise level applications/solutions.
• Demonstrate experience executing functional tests, non-functional tests, data testing and systems level integration tests.
• Demonstrate ability to extract and retrieve data by using database queries (e.g., SQL).
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
• Demonstrate knowledge of structured methodologies for the development, design, implementation and maintenance of applications.
• Demonstrate experience contributing the testing perspective to other project activities, such as development, integration testing, etc.
• Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience in the use of version control systems on one or more platforms, preferably DevOps.

Criteria 2: Quality Assurance Skills - 35 Points

• 8+ years of demonstrated QA experience, including leading QA teams, in defect tracking using a collaborative tool to manage defects and change request and to communicate status of these to all project participants.
• Demonstrate experience in test management (Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Execution), defect management (Defect Life Cycle and Triage) and Test Execution Reporting.
• Demonstrate experience in defect tracking using a collaborative tool to manage defects and change request and to communicate status of these to all project participants.
• Demonstrate experience with User Acceptance Testing and leading initial UAT sessions.
• Demonstrate experience in planning, organizing and implementing testing efforts at the specified experience level.
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience in the use of automated test tools and version control systems on one or more platforms, like Microsoft DevOps.
• Experience initiating the specification, preparation, implementation and execution of tests, monitor the test results, checking the entrance and exit criteria.
• Demonstrate experience executing functional tests, non-functional tests and systems level integration tests.
• Demonstrate experience with quality assurance principles, practices, tools and structured methodologies.
• Demonstrate 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.
• Demonstrate experience in quality assurance and testing, including unit testing, data testing, integration testing, load testing, performance testing, etc.

Criteria 3: Business Skills - 25 Points

• Demonstrate experience working with clients and technical teams to ensure effective resolution of defects and management of change requests are complete.
• Demonstrate experience in providing periodic status reports, present test data defects/migration strategy and approach to executives and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrate experience coordinating testing activities with project managers and others team members.
• Demonstrate experience supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities.
• Demonstrate experience adapting planning based on test results and progress (tweaking the plan) and take necessary actions to compensate for problems.
• Demonstrate experience being a team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, with the ability to shift priorities quickly and effectively when needed.
• Demonstrate conceptual skills to see the big picture and assist in integrating QA/testing processes and standards.
• Demonstrate excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills; verbal and written communication skills; and interpersonal skills.

Criteria 4: Public Sector Experience - 5 Points

• Previous experience working in Government or Public Sector organizations.

Knowledge Transfer

What needs to be KT

• All documentation relating to the technology designs and technology knowledge specific to the candidates assignment. All information gathered while working with vendors and internal solutions to be shared. Any best practices, work around, lessons learned must be documented.

Must have:

• 8+ years of demonstrated QA experience, including leading QA teams, defect tracking using a collaborative tool to manage defects and change request and to communicate status of these to all project participants.
• Knowledge and experience in the use of version control systems on one or more platforms, preferably Microsoft DevOps.
• Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
• Conceptual skills to see the big picture and assist in integrating QA/testing processes and standards.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills; verbal and written communication skills; and interpersonal skills.