KEYWORDS:

• Must Have
• Garbage Collection Analysis
• Server/Host Capacity Analysis
• Understanding of RESTful API design
• Understanding of DevOps and Agile Methodology
• Understanding of Three-tier web architecture pattern and Client-Server model
• Strong foundation in programming and scripting
• Should be able to adapt to and/or learn new programming languages

EXPERIENCE (YEARS):

• 6-8
  Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
  Work Location: Hybrid remote in Toronto, O

• Role and Responsibility
• Lead test planning, preparation and execution activities.
• Analyze, develop, debug, execute and maintain complex automated test cases.
• Be responsible for all project/ release testing (e.g. integration, business acceptance, performance, operability, deployment verification).
• Coordinate testing planning, support with partners (e.g. business, CIO group, Infrastructure).
• Lead documentation creation, review, sign-off (e.g. test strategies, plans, schedule, cost estimates, test cases, dashboards, defect logs, test phase closure reports, entry/exit criteria and gating).
• Apply risk analysis methodologies, tools that align with a projects development approach.
• Prioritize testing tasks, ensure milestones, activities, tasks are completed as scheduled.
• May create and execute test case creation and execution to ensure team meets timelines.
• Ensure testing does not impact the production environment (e.g., file transmission scheduling), meets information security/privacy policies/guidelines.
• Chair daily defect status calls to ensure prompt, thorough documenting, tracking, testing.
• Report on test planning, execution, defects to project team using standard test quality metrics.
• Lead relationships with project team, offshore teams, release teams, third-parties, clients.
• Build, maintain test environments. monitor, trouble shoot, triage, resolve issues.
• Co-ordinate code deployments, maintenance upgrades and project testing across numerous environments on various technology platforms.
• Follow established testing processes, in doing so, identify, assess, address, resolve and/or escalate, develop contingency plans as needed.
• Participate in audit reviews of test artifacts, ensure they meet standards and audit requirements, and are stored in the project site.
• Participate in gate reviews, testing activities and artifacts, ensure they adhere to gating criteria.
• Communicate, address scope changes that may impact testing (timeline, costs, risks).
• Promptly identify, notify, escalate, monitor issues, recommend solutions.
• Track financials.
• Identify, track resources needed to cover projects.
• Use tools to develop, maintain virtualized services, components, environments.
• Coach colleagues and act as a reference for the requirements management life cycle.
  
  
  
• **Good to have
  
  o BlazeMeter
  
  o Any other APM tools (i.e. App Dynamics, New Relic)
  
  o Knowledge of cloud computing
  
  o IBM PMAT
  
  o NodeJS Frameworks such as ExpressJS, KeystoneJS, SocketIO
  
  o Bootstrap CSS framework
  
  o Git
  
  o Bit Bucket
  
  o MongoDB
  
  o Microsoft Excel
  
  o Microsoft Access
  
  o Writing SQL queries
  
  o Confluence
  
  o Python
  
  o Jython
  
  o Java
  
  o C#
  
  o Ruby
  
  o VBA for Excel
  
  o Jenkins
  
  o Continuous Integration
  
  o Splunk
  
  o Jira
  
  o HP ALM
  
  o SO