Automation Developer, IT Quality Assurance

   Automation Developer, IT Quality Assurance       (6 month contract to start - Remote Work/Downtown Toronto)  

Essential technologies experience:

• 3+ years of Quality Assurance
  
• Automated Testing experience and knowledge of testing methodologies
  
• Azure DevOps platform and Azure Cloud environments
  
• D365 CRM platform and Full Stack programming experience
  
• Web Testing experience
  

Responsibilities

• Work with IT Managers and QA colleagues to determine test approach and create test scenarios for user stories
  
• Identify gaps in requirements and address them to business analysts and product owner
  
• Create test cases based on user stories acknowledged/ confirmed
  
• Perform manual testing which will include functional, smoke, end-to-end and regression testing
  
• Work with automation engineers to create a road map and select test cases for automation
  
• Identify, record, address, track and close bugs
  
• Propose solutions to reported errors and issues 
  
• Offer insights and solution in the analysis of business requirements, user interface design, test requirements, and risk analysis
  
• Review and implement project based test strategies
  
• Develop, review, and maintain test plans
  
• Define, maintain and adjust quality standards, policies and procedures relating to IT Quality Assurance
  
• Provide status updates and report issues to QA and project leadership
  
• Sets realistic and achievable expectations for deliverables
  
• Execute tasks by doing hands-on work as an individual contributor
  
• Other duties as assigned and required
  

Requirements

Technical Skills

• Post-secondary education, degree or diploma, in IT or equivalent work experience 
  
• 3+ years of experience in Quality Assurance
  
• Good knowledge of hardware, systems software and utilities, network communications, databases, and computer operations
  
• Very good communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
  
• Excellent knowledge of testing methodologies (for functional/non-functional, integration, system, acceptance, performance, security, usability etc.)
  
• Experience with automated testing (for APIs, services, SaaS platforms, UI testing, desktop applications) or frameworks (Selenium, Ignite, etc.)
  
• Good technical writing skills and experience creating test documentation
  
• Knowledge of the D365 CRM platform (customer engagement, marketing, project operations)
  
• experience working in cloud environments, preferably Azure
  
• power shell and/or power automate experience
  
• Basic full stack programing
  
• Deep knowledge of web testing (e.g. APIs, browser differences, JavaScript testing, etc.)
  
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps platform (Test Plans, Pipelines, Boards, Repos)