System Test Engineer (COTS)
- Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Original job description
Title: System Test Specialist
Location: Ottawa - 3x a week on-site (not flexible)
Duration: 10-month contract
- Experience validating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions and integrated systems that support operational, mission-critical, industrial, transportation, defence, simulation, training, or other real-time user-driven environments involving multiple vendors, systems and stakeholders.
- Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT), or equivalent validation and verification activities.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- Knowledge and experience with system testing, test engineering principles and validation of large-scale projects for software and hardware.
- Experience using Azure DevOps for requirements management, test management, defect tracking and reporting.
- Experience working with third party suppliers, ensuring adherence to project requirements and quality standards.
- Ability to develop and execute on test plans/protocols/cases, and report on the test analysis/metrics and provide recommendations to management/supervisors.
- Analyze and identify test coverage gaps and missing links between requirements and tests, including test procedures developed by other testers.
- Skill in professional discussions with internal customers, external vendors and management.
- Skill in writing clear, cohesive, and concise documentation that is easily understandable by colleagues, management, and clients.
- Skill in communicating clearly in conversation and in presentations to both technical and non-technical staff and management.
- Knowledge of test maturity models such as TMMI.
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Responsibilities
Develop and execute test plans, protocols, and cases for COTS solutions and integrated software and hardware systems, including support for UAT, OAT, and related validation activities. Analyze test coverage and requirements traceability, coordinate with suppliers and stakeholders, and report test metrics, findings, and recommendations to management.
Requirements
Experience validating COTS solutions and integrated systems in complex, mission-critical or real-time environments, along with experience supporting UAT, OAT, or equivalent verification activities. Requires knowledge of system testing and test engineering, Azure DevOps, supplier quality oversight, test analysis and documentation, stakeholder communication, and test maturity models such as TMMI.
Skills
- System Testing
- Test Engineering
- COTS Validation
- System Integration Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- Operational Acceptance Testing
- Azure DevOps
- Requirements Management
- Test Management
- Defect Tracking
- Test Planning
- Test Case Development
- Test Coverage Analysis
- Vendor Management
- Test Metrics and Reporting
- Technical Documentation
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Categories
- Engineering
- Technology
- Software
- Consulting
Keywords
- Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS)
- System Testing
- Test Engineering
- System Integration
- Software Testing
- Hardware Testing
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
- Validation and Verification
- Azure DevOps
- Requirements Management
- Test Management
- Defect Tracking
- Test Plans
- Test Protocols
- Test Cases
- Test Coverage
- Requirements Traceability
- Third-Party Suppliers
- Quality Standards
- Test Metrics
- Test Reporting
- TMMI
- Mission-Critical Systems
- Real-Time Environments
- Vendor Coordination
- Ottawa