System Test Engineer (COTS)

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.