RQ00199 - Sr. Systems Testing/QA Specialist

RQ00199 - Sr. Systems Testing/QA Specialist 6-month contract (132 busienss days) - possible extension 3 days onsite/2 days remote (subject to change) - 277 Front Street Must Haves: 8+ years of experience in planning and performing quality control and testing activities 5+ yrs experience with writing and executing test scripts in a waterfall and agile environment. 5+ yrs experience in Functional, Smoke, Regression, UAT, E2E and other cross-team testing. 5+ yrs expertise in using JIRA, Zephyr, and confluence or similar. Strong interpersonal and written communication skills Completion of a university degree or college diploma, preferably in computer science/engineering, information technology, business administration, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience Nice to Have: Public Sector Experience Metrolinx is connecting communities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Metrolinx operates GO Transit and UP Express, as well as the PRESTO fare payment system. We are also building new and improved rapid transit, including GO Expansion, Light Rail Transit routes, and major expansions to Toronto's subway system, to get people where they need to go, better, faster and easier. Metrolinx is an agency of the Government of Ontario The Transit Operations Team provides solutions for tracking trains and buses and managing customer information through applications like Trip Manager, TrainTrac, Rail Network, Schedule Manager, Location Manager, Bus Platform Manager. The team also oversees a 3rd party vendor providing managed services for Customer Information Management Systems. These applications provide critical capabilities to Metrolinx Transit Operations and Safety (Oakville Network Operating Centre (NOC), digital signage, online customer channels, bus and rail service planning. Responsibilities: Engages 3rd party vendors in test planning and coordination of end-to-end testing activities Works closely with Software Developers and other technical staff to develop test specifications and build test cases to test product functionality, and investigate all potential product test failures. Identifies, logs, retest, and priorities the bugs. Reviews new or modified programs, including documentation, diagrams, and flow charts, to determine if the program will perform according to the user request and conform to guidelines Evaluates and tests new and modified software programs to verify the program's function according to user requirements and conformance to established guidelines Plans, analyses, and defines testing strategies for software and system testing. Keeps the regression suite up to date. Acts as a quality assurance resource on project teams, and interacts with stakeholders, Project Managers, Developers, and other technical staff Recommends program improvements or corrections to programmers Conducts compatibility tests with vendor-provided programs. Monitors program…