Senior QA Analyst to support the automated testing of a COTS application using Cypress testing framework for a crown corporation client

Our valued crown corporation client is seeking a Senior QA Analyst to support the automated testing of a COTS application using Cypress testing framework!

Initial 2-year contract in Ottawa, ON with strong possibility of extension to a total term of 3 years. 7.5 hours per day, Monday to Friday. 2 days/week hybrid on-site in downtown Ottawa.

Responsibilities:

• Review the automation framework and practices already adopted by the application support team and help to evolve the framework as required
• Facilitate discussions on new testing tool chain, technologies and automation practices
• Accelerate the adoption of QA automation with hands on development of QA automation scripts from the manual test cases and performance tests
• Contribute to other quality assurance areas including manual, integration and performance testing efforts
• Ensure quality of routine operations process by improving the health of the test automation systems and their integration

Must Have Skills:

• 8+ years of recent demonstrated work experience as a QA Analyst testing web applications, third party (COTS) applications, and integrations
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining automated test scripts from code design to deployment and execution
• Experience with performance testing tools like Jmeter or Neoload.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Integration testing and API testing tools such as Postman
• Demonstrated experience in automation testing framework such as Cypress
• Demonstrated experience in DevOps tools such as Jenkins

Nice-to-have Skills:

• Demonstrated knowledge of Enterprise applications support
• Demonstrated experience working with Typescript