Test Lead 7363-2415

at  Foilcon

HM Note: This hybrid role allows the candidate to work remotely and must be based in Ontario

GENERAL SKILLS:

Experience co-ordinating the test strategy and plan with project managers and others
Experience writing and reviewing a test strategy for the project, and test policy for the organization.
Experience contributing the testing perspective to other project activities, such as development, integration testing, etc.
Experience planning the tests - considering the context and understanding the test objectives and risk - including selecting test approaches, estimating the time, effort and cost of testing, acquiring resources, defining test levels, cycles and planning incident management
Experience initiating the specification, preparation, implementation and execution of tests, monitor the test results and check the exit criteria
Experience adapting planning based on test results and progress(tweaking the plan) and take necessary actions to compensate for problems
Experience introducing suitable metrics for measuring test progress and evaluating the quality of the testing and product.
Experience providing input to test automation strategy, test automation framework roadmap
Experience selecting tools to support testing and organize any training in tool use for testers
Experience coordinating usage and assignment of test environment with all stakeholders.
Experience writing test summary reports based on the information gathered during testing.
Experience executing full lifecycle software development Experience programming well-designed, testable, efficient code
Experience creating / producing specifications and determine operational feasibility Experience leading / providing guidance to team members
A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements

MANDATORY TECHNICAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 8+ years of QA testing using agile, hybrid and waterfall SDLC methodologies.
• Provide comprehensive and detailed hands-on testing covering cloud-based Java technologies including JSON, RESTful Web Services, HTML5.
• Develop plans, execute testing and produce testing artefacts providing assurance of software quality.
• Documenting errors and defect tracking management
• Creation and implementation test strategy, plans for testing software, debugging code, and enhancing the usability of programs.
• Proficient in the use of SQL in supporting testing activities
• Experience with AODA testing and use of related tools
• Experience in project management and QA approaches
• Working knowledge of testing tools such Azure DevOps, Postman
• Knowledge to design and ability to write automation test scripts
• Working knowledge of test management software tools

SOFT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Professional team player with ability to liaison with non-technical and technical team members as it relates to QA testing.
• Ability to understand technical and business/customer requirements in ensuring full scope of testing is captured and executed.
• Strong organizational skills
• Critical time and work management
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DESIRABLE TECHNICAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Working knowledge of GIS spatial datasets
• Working knowledge of programming scripting languages such as python.
• Engineering or Computer Science background degree

Lead the design of test strategy, plans, scenarios, scripts, or procedures for testing