SCOPE:

• Contribute towards testing activities for the delivery and product management life cycle of the CDT project. The resource will be responsible for the following activities:
  
• Lead in the development of test strategy, preparation of test cases / scenarios, test scripts, regression test cases/scenarios required to verify solution and system.
  
• Manage all test activities including AODA and stress/load testing.
  
• Execute test scripts to verify solution
  
• Reconcile, manage, record and track system or functional defects, break/fixes identified during unit and user acceptance testing.
  
• Communication with project manager and developers to ensure application quality and alignment with project timelines
  

DELIVERABLES:

• 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 test cases and other test artifacts like the test plans, test scripts, test data and data validation.
  
• Supervise 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.
  
• Plan, facilitate and support User Acceptance Testing and lead UAT sessions.
  
• Provide guidance to the business users during User Acceptance Testing
  
• 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 and developers holding triage sessions and ensuring appropriate prioritization of defects
  
• Working closely with the client lead, prioritize, schedule and remediate 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 and facilitate test plan/test case reviews with cross functional team members
  

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS:

• 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
  
• Knowledge and experience in the use of version control systems on one or more platforms
  
• Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle
  
• Conceptual skills to see the big picture and assist in integrating QA/testing processes and standards
  
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills, verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills.
  

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Experience in planning, organizing and implementing testing efforts at the specified experience level
  
• Knowledge of structured methodologies for the development, design, implementation and maintenance of applications
  
• Knowledge and experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools and data query tools to aid in the development of test cases
  
• 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, data testing, integration testing, load testing, performance testing, etc.
  
• 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
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  
• Knowledge of one or more automated testing tools