Government

QA Tester

Toronto, ON · On-site · Contract

Rate

CAD $65–$70/hr

Duration

12 months

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Required skills

  • Selenium
  • Postman
  • JMeter
  • LoadRunner
  • Jenkins
  • Git
  • GitLab
  • CI/CD
  • Oracle
  • SQL
  • Azure
  • DevOps
  • AWS
  • Jira
  • Agile
  • Scrum

About the role

Requirements: What you'll need

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications:

Core Skills and Experience

• 10+ years of experience in software testing in enterprise-level IT environments and large-scale systems

• Hands-on working experience in manual testing and automated testing tools and frameworks.

• Hands on experience developing and planning automated testing

• Deep understanding of Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall testing methodologies.

• Extensive experience with AODA testing and compliance

• Experience creating and maintaining test strategies, test cases and scripts, as well as test reports.

• Experience in test automation tools such as Selenium or Postman for API testing.

• Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar.

• Experience with defect tracking tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar.

• Proven expertise in end-to-end testing of complex systems, ensuring coverage of all functional and non-functional requirements.

• Knowledge of QA compliance standards and security testing best practices.

Technical Skills and Experience

• Strong understanding of databases such as SQL, Oracle.

• Knowledge of cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS.

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integration tools like Jenkins, Git, or GitLab.

Soft Skills

• Strong communication skills; both written and verbal

• Excellent interpersonal relations and demonstrated ability to work with others effectively in teams

• Demonstrated ability to work with functional and technical teams Demonstrated ability to participate in a large team and work closely with other individual team members

• Proven analytical skills and systematic problem solving

• Strong ability to work under pressure, work with aggressive timelines, and be adaptive to change

Public sector Experience

• OPS quality assurance standard and practices.

Must Have:

• 10+ years of experience in software testing in enterprise-level IT environments and large-scale systems

• Hands-on working experience in manual testing and automated testing tools and frameworks.

• Hands on experience developing and planning automated testing

• Experience in test automation tools such as Selenium or Postman for API testing.

• Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar.

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