RQ10499 - Specialized IT Consultant - Senior

Responsibilities:

• Works in partnership with clients, advising on IT to meet business objectives or overcome problems
  


• Improves structure and efficiency of an organization’s I&IT systems
  


• Provides strategic guidance on Information Management & IT technology, IT infrastructures, and business process enablement
  


• Offers subject matter expertise and highly expert technical assistance
  

General Skills:

• Acts as the technical advisor/expert on specific deliverables
  


• Provides quality assurance/quality control of specific deliverables
  


• Anticipates and resolves problems to ensure deliverables are completed within budget and to the highest quality
  


• Develops processes and procedures for implementing deliverables
  


• Prepares reports and presentations including options, recommendations, and implementation plans
  


• Works with clients to define project scope and requirements
  


• Defines software, hardware, and network requirements
  


• Analyzes I&IT requirements, providing independent and objective advice
  


• Designs, tests, installs, and monitors new systems; develops solutions and implements new systems
  


• Familiar with change\-management principles and methodology
  


• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies, and practices
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 10 years of experience in planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems in GUI and non GUI environments
  


• Demonstrated experience with business clients, supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities.
  


• Demonstrated experience in executing functional tests, non\-functional tests, and systems level integration tests
  


• Demonstrated experience Knowledge and experience in the use of DevOps tools (Jira, Azure DevOps)
  

Skill Set Requirements:

A minimum of 10 years of experience in the following:

• Planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems in GUI and non GUI environments
  


• Experience in planning, organizing and implementing testing efforts at the specified levels of proficiency
  


• Knowledge and experience in the use of DevOps tools (Jira, Azure DevOps)
  


• Experience in coding automated test scripts to produce sets of automated test cases
  


• The ability to prepare summary and detail reports describing testing activities
  


• Experience with business clients, supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities
  


• Experience working with/within Service Oriented Architecture and testing web services.
  


• Experience working with client customer support representatives to assist in data set up for training and
  

Other Requirements:

• Agile process experience \- Scrum, User Stories, CI, TDD, Automated Tests, etc.
  


• Execution of functional tests, non\-functional tests, and systems level integration tests
  


• Extensive knowledge of procedures and techniques for testing web based, online, batch, client server systems and web services
  


• Experience in requirements and test plan walkthroughs and in carrying out static testing
  


• Experience at the specified experience level in setting up user access and user profiles, backup and recovery, and day\-to\-day computer systems operations.
  


• Experience working with client customer support representatives to assist in data set up for training and implementation
  


• Preferred Experience working with Applications that automate internal Government Business Processes
  

Technical skills:

• 10 years of experience in planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems in GUI and non GUI environments
  


• Demonstrated experience with business clients, supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities.
  


• Demonstrated experience in executing functional tests, non\-functional tests, and systems level integration tests
  


• Demonstrated experience in coding automated test scripts to produce sets of automated test cases
  


• Demonstrated experience in procedures and techniques of testing web based, online, batch, client server systems and web services.
  


• Demonstrated experience Knowledge and experience in the use of DevOps tools (Jira, Azure DevOps)
  


• Expertise in end\-to\-end digital accessibility testing, including automated, manual, and assistive techniques.
  


• Knowledge of the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation (IASR), and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and 2.1 level A and AA.
  

Other Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in requirements gathering and test plan walkthroughs and in carrying out static testing.
  


• Demonstrated experience in setting up user access and user profiles, backup and recovery, and day\-today computer systems operations.
  

Client Support:

• Demonstrated experience of working with client customer support representatives to assist in data set up for training and implementation.
  

Government Business Process Experience:

• Working experience on applications that automate internal government business processes such as Websphere, e\-Forms, JDBC, and Business Objects Enterprise etc., would be an asset.