RQ11656 - Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Senior

Responsibilities:

Sr Quality Assurance(QA) Analyst,  is responsible for overseeing and managing the quality assurance (QA) processes for both manual and automated testing efforts. This role involves leading a team of QA engineers, developing and implementing testing strategies, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in both manual and automated testing, strong leadership skills, and a deep understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC) and QA methodologies.

As a Sr QA Lead you will

• Collaborate with product managers, product owners, and technical team to develop test strategies and test plans
  
  


• 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.
  
  


• Develop test plans, test scripts and test cases and execute these against the various components. 
  
  


• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for functional, regression, and integration testing
  
  


• Use automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Appium, Playwright or similar to create robust and reusable test scripts.
  
  


• Provides advice on the testing strategy, test plans, the selection of testing tools, and the identification of resources required for testing.
  
  


• 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).
  
  


• 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 LRC 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 LRC staff to ask clarification and/or follow up questions
  
  

Requirements

Must Have:

• Experience with API testing tools like Postman, SoapUI, or RestAssured[AM1]
  
  


• Knowledge of RESTful and SOAP web services.
  
  


• Ability to write and execute SQL queries for database validation and data-driven testing.
  
  


• Use automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Appium, Playwright or similar to create robust and reusable test scripts.
  
  


• 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.
  
  
  
  

Nice to have:

• Prior OPS / public sector exp.