senior systems testing/qa specialist.

Do you 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? Do you have hands-on experiences with technologies/platforms such as SharePoint, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript and VBScript, COTS, SaaS and Cloud applications? If so, this would be a great opportunity for you!

Our client is looking for a Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist for a 10 month contract in Toronto.

This is an onsite role.

Rate: $414 - $451.98

Advantages
• Earn a competitive rate within the industry.

• Location: Up to 5 days onsite .

• Potential for extension.

Responsibilities
• 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 developer’s 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.

Qualifications
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

• Hands-on experiences with technologies/platforms such as SharePoint, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript and VBScript, COTS, SaaS and Cloud applications

• Demonstrated experience working with clients and technical teams to ensure effective resolution of defects and management of change requests are complete

• 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

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills; verbal and written communication skills; and interpersonal skills.

Summary
If you are interested in the Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist position in Toronto, please apply online at Qualified candidates will be contacted.

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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