QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

Team Lead – QA Systems Analyst:

 Leads the Quality Assurance team in the development of testing, integration and implementation of systems solutions into the clients’ applications

ensure the continued quality of OBR to meet all the requirements defined for the project and the system functionality works as approved design and requirements. 

General Skills:

• Leads the Quality Assurance team in the development of testing, integration and implementation of systems solutions into the clients’ applications
• Ability to evaluate recommendations and ensures all recommended solutions for improvement are congruent with the project goals and objectives
• Identifies short and long-term project goals/objectives, and as a senior technical expert, defines and identifies program and service delivery requirements in support of the development and/or acquisition of client applications
• Leads the analysis, development and documentation of design and architecture of systems solutions.
• Guides the feasibility studies and cost-effective analyses of proposed client I&IT initiatives, ensures all studies and analyses are documented
• Leads the technical aspects of projects related to the development and/or acquisition of a diverse range of client applications through all stages of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This includes planning, scheduling and estimating resources, providing technical expertise, co-ordination, monitoring progress and providing management with project status updates
• Demonstrated experience gathering requirements, translating business documents into technical specifications
• Experience leading development/support teams supporting multi-dimensional and relational databases and their applications for effective planning, budgeting, strategizing and forecasting procedures
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing complex applications utilizing relational and multi-dimensional databases
• Ability to provide implementation and post implementation support as required
• Oversees the research and evaluation of the technical components in the acquisition of software, hardware, technology, systems and products
• Recommends and directs the measurement and improvement of tools, techniques, standards and performance criteria to control the quality of application development initiatives
• Provides coaching and direction to junior analysts throughout the project, related to the development and/or acquisition of a diverse range of client applications through all stages of the Systems Development Life Cycle
• 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.
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
• Knowledge of one or more automated testing tools 

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and experience in rapid application development (RAD) methodologies
• Knowledge and experience with middleware and gateways
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
• Experience with development/maintenance of documentation as per Methodology
• Good working knowledge of Dimensions and Facts
• Knowledge of multidimensional structures (cubes)
• Ability to gather, review and provide feedback to business requirements 
• 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)

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Skills and competencies required for the assignment:

Quality Assurance Methodology: 55%

• Intermediate Systems Analyst with 7+ years of experience in process, planning, organizing and implementing testing efforts
• Experience leading a team of professional Quality Assurance Analysts/Testers
• 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
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Quality Assurance Experience: 35%

• Leads the analysis, development and documentation of design and architecture of systems solutions.
• Leads the development of testing, integration and implementation of systems solutions into the clients’ applications
• analysis and design methodology, techniques; structured testing
• Analysis of business requirements and functional designs
• Knowledge of Risk and evidence-based testing
• Analysis of business rules
• Identifying the test scenarios
• 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 Microfocus ALM/JIRA
• Experience in entry, exit and acceptance testing criteria

Nice to have: 10%

• 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.

Must have:

7+ years of experience in process, planning, organizing and implementing testing efforts

Experience leading a team of professional Quality Assurance Analysts/Testers

Experience with manual testing

Experience in working with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software.

Experience in testing of the Registry system

HOW TO APPLY

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