Health Services I&IT Cluster, Health Solutions Delivery Branch, requires a Systems Tester to provide system testing services for the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Health Services I&IT Cluster, Registration and ADP Team.

What can I expect to do in this role?

In this position, you will:

• Provide system testing services for ongoing maintenance and development of mission and business critical systems and custom applications in the provincial healthcare system.
• Review and analyze business and system requirements for systems solutions, prepare system test plans and test cases based on clients' detailed business requirements as well as system design specifications, participate in system design reviews and create appropriate test data.
• Conduct testing of applications in a mainframe or in a mid-tier, verify test databases using SQL and develop testing recommendations.
• Write, edit and maintain test documentation and document system defects in a problem management system.
• Maintain the integrity and effectiveness of testing tools, environments and databases.
• Provide advice to clients on appropriate user acceptance tests and provide recommendations to the project leader as to acceptance or rejection of system components.
•In addition you may be involved in the development and maintenance of system testing automation scripts to be used for data preparation or for regression testing automation.

How do I qualify?

KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNICAL SKILLS:
• Knowledge of and experience in information technology such as industry standard systems development life cycles, methodologies and techniques to participate in the testing of information systems.
• Understanding and experience with testing and implementation processes to design and develop system testing plans, test suites and test cases, create and update test data, review test results, develop complete system testing documentation, implement enhanced systems and recommend changes to existing test procedures.
• Demonstrated experience with relational databases (Oracle, DB2).
• Demonstrated experience with SQL.
• Demonstrated level of experience conducting system testing in a mainframe and a mid-tier environment.
• Experience developing and maintaining testing automation scripts, preferably in Java, using a testing automation tool would be a definite asset.

ANALYTICAL AND RESEARCH SKILLS:
• Analytical skills to determine the nature of issues or problems. Ability to select, interpret and integrate pertinent information.
• Ability to understand and analyze business requirements, and systems response documents, to design and execute test plans to ensure that the system functions properly and meets the business requirements.
• Ability to write test plans and test cases that are well-structured, easy to maintain, and easily understood by developers, business analysts and clients.
• Research skills to isolate all elements and determine how they interact.

COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:
• Communication and writing skills to explain, convey and present highly complex technical information, including explanation to non-technical business audiences.
• Interpersonal skills to provide clarification with problems or complaints and skills to encourage compliance, promote acceptance and secure cooperation for a course of action, recommendation or proposal.

All external applicants (including former employees of the Ontario Public Service) applying to a competition in a ministry or Commission public body must disclose (either in the cover letter or resume) previous employment with the Ontario Public Service. Disclosure must include positions held, dates of employment and any active restrictions from being rehired by the Ontario Public Service. Active restrictions can include time and/or ministry-specific restrictions currently in force, and may preclude a former employee from applying and/or accepting a position with the Ontario Public Service for a specific time period (e.g. one year), or from applying and/or accepting a position with a specific ministry (either for a pre-determined time period or indefinitely). The circumstances around an employee's exit will be considered prior to an offer of employment.

Remember: The deadline to apply is Tuesday, September 2, 2014 11:59 pm EDT. Late applications will not be accepted.

We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for further screening or an interview will be contacted.

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