Job Summary:

The Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist leads and executes comprehensive quality assurance and testing activities for enterprise platform features, integrations, and releases. This role is responsible for developing and implementing risk-based test strategies, coordinating test environments, managing defects, and ensuring that all quality criteria and approved requirements are met. The specialist collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performing digital solutions with a focus on automation and continuous improvement. Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain risk-based 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 capabilities and integrations.
- Coordinate test environments, accounts, tools, data, and resources to ensure test readiness.
- Manage defect lifecycle including identification, triage, prioritization, resolution, retesting, and closure.
- Maintain requirements traceability, coverage reporting, dashboards, and quality metrics.
- Assess and communicate release readiness and residual quality risks to stakeholders.
- Establish and promote repeatable testing practices and automation to improve coverage, reliability, and delivery speed.
- Collaborate with product owners, analysts, developers, architects, DevOps, security specialists, and business representatives to ensure quality standards are met.

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




- Strong skills in designing and maintaining automated UI, API, service, and database tests.
- Experience testing cloud-based microservices, distributed applications, and multi-system integrations.
- Ability to coordinate business and technical teams during testing and defect resolution.

Desired Skills:
- Experience in public sector or Operations (OPS) environments.
- Familiarity with security testing and performance benchmarking tools.
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipeline integration for automated testing.
- Robust analytical, reporting, facilitation, and problem-solving abilities.

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 for various platform components.
- Defect logs with triage, prioritization, and resolution status.
- Requirements traceability matrices and test coverage reports.
- Quality metrics dashboards and release readiness assessments.
- Reports on residual risks and recommendations for production deployment.

Must Haves:
- Extensive experience with end-to-end testing of complex digital platforms.
- Proven ability to develop and execute functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, and acceptance tests.
- Hands-on experience with automation of UI, API, service, and database tests.
- Experience testing cloud applications, microservices, and multi-system integrations.
- Strong coordination skills for managing cross-functional teams during testing and defect resolution.

Public Sector Experience:

Preferred

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