Job Title: Quality Assurance Engineer
Location: Edmonton Alberta T5J 3W7 (primarily work remotely)
Duration: 12 months contract + possible extension
SUMMARY
Job Description:
Project Overview
DDD’s Platforms branch is looking for three (3) experienced and motivated Senior Quality Assurance Engineers (QA Engineer) to ensure the implementation quality of large-scale enterprise platforms, products, and services. If you’re passionate about delivering enterprise solutions that ensure government services are secure, cost-effective, and easy to access, this could be the perfect opportunity for you. QA Engineer(s) will be working with modern, user-centered Agile processes within a high-performing team culture to make a meaningful impact.
QA Engineer(s) provides expertise in ensuring that solutions meet required standards of quality, performance, and security by adhering to GoA best practices and processes. QA Engineer(s) collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to plan and execute comprehensive system tests, identify defects and areas for improvements.
To succeed, a solid testing background in QA engineering is required, with experience in both functional and non-functional testing, performed manually and through automation, in an Agile environment. It is important that a QA Engineer possesses strong problem-solving abilities and fosters a culture of quality across teams. A strong foundation in current and emerging testing technologies, as well as excellent communication, critical thinking, and collaboration skills, are essential. The ability to balance business acumen with project leadership expertise will be crucial in driving projects to success.
Services and project deliverables should evolve as the work progresses, in response to emerging user and business needs, as well as design and technical opportunities. However, the following must be delivered (iteratively) over the course of the project:
Lead in ensuring the delivery of quality digital services:
- Create and document test plans to support frequent delivery of features with consistent and satisfactory quality;
- Create and document test cases and test scripts;
- Plan and execute system tests for functional testing including system testing and integration testing;
- Plan and execute system tests for non-functional testing including usability testing and compatibility testing;
- Perform security testing including vulnerability testing, penetration testing, authentication and authorization testing;
- Perform performance testing including load testing, stress testing, scalability testing, and response time testing;
- Perform regression testing, smoke testing, sanity testing, and exploration testing;
- Perform Application Programming Interface (API) testing including security, performance, data validation, error handling, integration testing and standards compliance testing;
- Perform mobile testing including device compatibility testing and mobile-specific testing; and
- Perform cross-browser compatibility testing.
Lead in database testing:
- Write SQL queries to validate data in databases, ensuring the correct data is inserted, update and retrieved;
- Verify data integrity ensuring data is processed correctly and is consistent across the solution; and
- Perform data conversion testing, ensuring data integrity and accuracy in data quantity throughout the conversion process.
Manage automation that allows for rapid and frequent delivery:
- Implement automated test suites; and
- Coordinate contributions to automated test suites.
Contribute to defect management and best practices:
- Track defects during testing with detailed, accurate information, screenshots and logs for reproducing, following best practices;
- Create detailed bug reports and work with the team to prioritize and identify the severity; and
- Ensuring defects are properly fixed without introducing new issues.
- Support and encourage the adoption of quality practices on teams and foster continuous improvement.
- Support any initiatives regarding the use of re-usable testing components/suites, the creation of test databases or the use of AI during testing.
- Support a team in defining metrics for service quality:
- Contribute to and coordinate automated metrics collection; and
- Contribute to and coordinate automated generation of reports and artifacts on quality.
EDUCATION
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science, IT or related field of study.
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Experience creating and modifying automation test scripts. 5 years
- Experience in a senior QA role on the same Agile project for at least two years. 2 years
- Experience in planning, writing test cases, scripts, and executing functional testing… 8 years
- Experience with API testing and implementing testing with CI/CD pipelines… 5 years
- Experience with database testing including data conversion testing in a… 8 years
- Experience with load testing, performance testing, security testing and/or end-to-end… 8 years
- Experience with Selenium, Cucumber and JavaScript test framework… 5 years
- Experience working as a senior QA on large-scale enterprise Agile projects. 8 years
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Experience incrementally transforming existing legacy systems into modern digital serv… 5 years
- Experience with Dual-Track Development process. 2 years
- Experience with Git such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, DevOps. 5 years
- Experience with leading a QA team with three (3) or more team members… 3 years
- Experience with User Acceptance Testing processes on large, complex… 3 years
- Duration -Exp working as an architect using data analytics… 4 years.
Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months
Pay: $70.00-$80.00 per hour
Work Location: Remot
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