Application Test Analyst

Cloudtrend Inc. specializes in building and managing an exclusive network of IT professionals to better their career opportunities and meet the demand of the market. We provide career management services and opportunities.

Position
Our client requires an Application Test Analyst to:
Review, evaluate and provide test input during business requirements and design specifications gathering sessions.
Identify and communicate testing issues, implement process improvement and issue resolution.
Identify the target test items to be evaluated by the test effort.
Develop and execute test plans.
Define the appropriate tests required and any associated test data.
Gather and manage the test data.
Evaluate the outcome of each test cycle.
Identify the most appropriate implementation approach for a given test.
Implement individual tests.
Set up and execute the tests.
Log outcomes and verify test execution.
Analyze and recover from execution errors.
Track test results, statistics, metrics and status.
Attend necessary meetings to review testing inputs/outputs and provide status updates.
Support project team members in the analysis of issues.
Support project teams utilizing automated testing tools.

Requirements
-University graduation, diploma, or a certificate in a related discipline from a recognized post-secondary institution and four years related experience.
-Available for interview in St. Albert, AB
-Demonstrated experience working as a Solution (application) Tester in a custom software application development environment (details/description of environment must be included, and the environment must be custom).
-Creatively design and implement automated test environment for a complex, multi-tiered system
-Proficient at decomposing requirements and developing test automation for projects of simple to high complexity.
-Experience in software development or automated testing.
-Experience preparing test data, executing tests and verifying results and logging issues.
-Experience with test automation framework, tool development and scripting.
-Experience with Selenium, Jmeter, Soap UI, Load UI, Loadrunner, HP QTP or similar automation toolset.

Desirables
-Experience with performance testing, unit testing, system testing, integration testing, UAT testing and regression testing.
-Ability to build/expand new part for the automation framework.
-Experience writing SQL queries, executing queries and verifying results and logging issues.
-Experience in identifying testing issues and implementing improved processes and resolutions.
-Experience testing in different environments including web and mobile.
-Experience with user acceptance testing including creation of user acceptance plan, status reporting, and managing assigned tasks.
-Experience working on concurrent projects (concurrent projects must be described).
-Experience with Shell scripting.

When applying, please state the number of years of experience in your response along with your resume.