RQ08248 - Systems TestingQA Specialist - Senior

Responsibilities:

• Provides project management on large scale complex high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
  
• Ensures project deliverables meet clients business requirements on time scope and budget with a focus on costeffectiveness efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
  

General Skills:

• Leads organizational development strategy development business planning and Ministry funding requests.
  
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
  
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
  
• Experience developing and managing project schedules deliverables and scope
  
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
  
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
  
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
  
• Sources selects and onboards team members in various disciplines clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
  
• Resolves resourcing and interpersonal conflicts negotiates changes to resourcing ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
  
• Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
  
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
  
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
  
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
  
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
  
• Provides project program and/or portfolio reporting to multistakeholders at senior executive levels.
  
• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects concept definition planning implementation and closeout.
  
• Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.
  

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management s Institute s Project Management Body of Knowledge
  
• 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
  
• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software hardware and technology resources
  
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring anticipates and troubleshoots issues provides ongoing expertise resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
  
• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
  
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations provides updates as required identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 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.
  

Nice to have:

• Prior development experience
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Core Skills and Experience:

• 10 years of experience in software testing in enterpriselevel IT environments and largescale systems
  
• Handson working experience in manual testing and automated testing tools and frameworks.
  
• Deep understanding of Agile Scrum and Waterfall testing methodologies.
  
• 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 endtoend testing of complex systems ensuring coverage of all functional and nonfunctional 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.