Responsibilities:

- Provides advice on the testing strategy, test plans, the selection of testing tools, and the identification of resources required for testing

- Plans and organizes testing efforts for large systems in Graphical User Interface (GUI) and non-Graphical User Interface (GUI) environments, including the execution of systems integration tests, specialized tests, and user acceptance testing (e.g., stress tests)

- The Quality Assurance Specialist is responsible for the development of test plans, test scripts and test cases and executing these against the various components. The tester will work with the testing lead and IT lead of each project as well as the project team members in the analysis, design, development, implementation and ongoing support of the required systems

- Executes functional, integration, system, and regression tests.

- Validates that the system behaves as expected under various conditions.

- Identifies, document, and track software defects using tools like Azure DevOps.

- Works closely with developers to reproduce and resolve issues.

- Develops and maintains automated test scripts using tools like Micro Focus, OpenText™ UFT, Selenium, TestComplete, or Postman.

- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

- Conduct performance, stress, and load testing to ensure the system can handle expected user traffic and data volumes.

- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.

- Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and project managers to clarify requirements and ensure quality.

- Participate in Agile ceremonies like sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

- Maintain detailed documentation of test results, test coverage, and quality metrics.

- Provide input for user manuals and release notes.

- Ensure testing processes comply with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

General Skills:

- 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, 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

- Knowledge of system, integration, regression, and acceptance testing.

- Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.

- Demonstrated ability to write clear,



comprehensive test cases and execute them effectively.

- Experience with tools like ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla, TestRail, Zephyr, etc.

- Familiarity with tools like Selenium, Cypress, or Postman for API testing.

- Understanding of scripting languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Bash) for automation or test data setup.

- Demonstrated ability to write queries to validate data and perform backend testing.

- Clear grasp of the software development and testing life cycles.

- Experience conducting basic security testing and collaborating with security specialists for deeper penetration testing.

- Experience developing and managing robust test data strategies, including generating realistic and sufficient test data, ensuring data privacy, and managing test data environments.

- Validates data integrity, consistency, and accuracy across various system components and databases, performing data migration and transformation testing as needed.

- Experience developing and executing performance test scripts using tools like JMeter or LoadRunner, and analyzing performance bottlenecks and system scalability.

Desirable Skills:

- Knowledge and experience in at least one programming language

- Experience in the use of information retrieval packages

- Knowledge and understanding of testing methods in an object-oriented setting

- 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

- Experience planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems

- Experience coding automated test scripts to produce sets of automated test cases

- Experience testing Commercial Off-the Shelf Applications (COTS)

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

- Demonstrated experience as a technical design specialist expertly coordinating the design, develop and enhancement of complex large scale, high profile, high-risk technology solutions

- Experience utilizing cloud-based technologies including containerization, orchestration and microservices

- Working knowledge of standards for health care data exchange, in particular Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)

- Experience in one or more languages: JavaScript ES6+, Spring Framework, Quarkus, Angular 9+, Angular Material, TypeScript, Node.JS, HTML5, CSS3

- Experience working with security architects and privacy SMEs to ensure the application design and physical deployment meet the required level of security and adhere to data privacy standards

Skill Set Requirements:

Technical Skills:

- Demonstrated experience as a technical design specialist expertly coordinating the design, develop and enhancement of complex large scale, high profile, high-risk technology solutions

- Experience utilizing cloud-based technologies including containerization, orchestration and microservices

- Proven ability to lead development teams to work on the definition and design of application software, hardware and network requirements

- Working knowledge of standards for health care data exchange, in particular Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)





- Experience overseeing the development of agreed-to solutions and implementation of those solutions, including designing, testing, installation and monitoring of the new systems

- Experience in one or more languages: JavaScript ES6+, Spring Framework, Quarkus, Angular 9+, Angular Material, TypeScript, Node.JS, HTML5, CSS3

- Experience with automated build processes in the development environment through CI/CD

- Experience with Agile software development process and VSTS/Azure DevOPS

- Provide technical leadership skills with an ability to identify areas for improvement and recommend solutions

- Conduct performance tuning and recommend performance improvement solution

- Demonstrated ability to work with business analysts to translate the business requirements and functional specifications into an application design appropriate to meet the business and operational/IT needs

- Knowledge of best practices in design, build, development and deployment and their application to meet functional and non-functional requirements, adhering to GO-ITS standards and internal branch standards

- Experience working with architects providing consistent object, data model, interface and application models

- Experience producing low-level design/development artefacts that show sufficient detail to allow developers to code and test

- Experience working with infrastructure, operational, deployment and technical teams to define the physical deployment of the application

- Experience working with security architects and privacy SMEs to ensure the application design and physical deployment meet the required level of security and adhere to data privacy standards

- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with the architecture team to create required architectural artifacts

- Working knowledge and experience with the MS Office suite, Visio and SharePoint.

General:

- Experience monitoring progress, resolving problems and reporting regularly to business and I⁢ management decision makers

- Experience with issues and risk management practices

- Experience developing and providing input to overall solution objectives

- Knowledge and understanding of I⁢ technical analysis and data analysis practices

- Proven troubleshooting and analytical experience

- Experience with privacy and security requirements of software development in a health context or equivalent.

- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.

- Ability to promote OPS I⁢ standards and best practices for planning, design and architecture governance.

- Awareness of emerging IT trends and directions and opportunities for client

Communication Skills:

- A demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.

- Demonstrated strong leadership and people management skills

- Demonstrated strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills

- Demonstrated ability to apply strong listening skills to facilitate issue resolution

- Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships

- Strong interpersonal, facilitation and negotiation skills with ability to build rapport with stakeholders and drive negotiations to a successful outcome

- Excellent customer service skills, including tact and diplomacy to ensure client needs are managed effectively

- A motivated, flexible, detail-oriented and creative team player with perseverance, excellent organization and multi-tasking abilities, and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines.

📌 Solutions Designer - Senior (East York)
🏢 CareerBeacon
📍 East York