Job Summary:

The Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist leads and executes comprehensive quality assurance and testing activities for complex enterprise platforms. This role develops and implements risk-based test strategies and automation to ensure the reliability, performance, security, and usability of digital solutions. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, the specialist manages test environments, defects, and quality metrics to deliver evidence-based release readiness assessments and improve testing practices. Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain test strategies, plans, scenarios, scripts, and data for various testing types including functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, API, database, and user acceptance testing.
- Lead and perform manual and automated testing across enterprise platform features, integrations, and releases.
- Coordinate test environments, accounts, tools, and data to ensure test readiness.
- Manage defect lifecycle including identification, triage, prioritization, resolution, retesting, and closure.
- Maintain requirements traceability, test coverage reporting, dashboards, and quality metrics.
- Assess release readiness and communicate residual risks to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with product owners, developers, DevOps, security specialists, and business partners to ensure quality standards.
- Establish and promote repeatable testing practices and automation to improve coverage and delivery speed.

Required Skills:
- Proven experience in planning and executing end-to-end testing for complex digital platforms.
- Strong expertise in functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance,



and acceptance testing.
- Proficiency in automating UI, API, service, and database tests.
- Experience testing cloud-based microservices, distributed applications, and integrations.
- Ability to coordinate and communicate effectively with both business and technical teams during testing and defect management.

Desired Skills:
- Experience with operations (OPS) or public sector environments.
- Familiarity with security and performance testing tools and methodologies.
- Knowledge of DevOps processes and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Experience with accessibility standards and compliance testing.

Rated Criteria:
- Testing Strategy and Execution - 35 Points
- Test Automation and Technical Testing - 25 Points
- Defect Management and Quality Reporting - 25 Points
- Communication and Collaboration - 15 Points

Total: 100 Points Deliverables:
- Comprehensive test strategies, plans, and scenarios covering all relevant testing types.
- Automated and manual test scripts and data sets.
- Defect reports, triage documentation, and resolution tracking.
- Requirements traceability matrices and test coverage dashboards.
- Release readiness assessments and quality metrics reports.
- Recommendations for improving testing processes and automation frameworks.

Must Haves:
- Extensive experience in end-to-end testing of complex digital solutions.
- Proven ability to automate tests across UI, API, service, and database layers.
- Solid coordination skills to manage cross-functional teams during testing and defect resolution.
- Expertise in cloud-based microservices and system integration testing.

Public Sector Experience:

Preferred

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