RQ- Specialized IT Consultant - Senior

About the job RQ08195 - Specialized IT Consultant - Senior Responsibilities

Works in partnership with clients, advising them on information technology in order to meet their business objectives or overcome problems, work to improve structure and efficiency of an organizations I&IT systems. The I&IT Consultant may be used to provide strategic guidance to organizations with regard to Information Management & IT technology, IT infrastructures and the enablement of major business processes through enhancements to IT.

Provides subject matter expertise in their field and highly expert technical assistance.

• Acts as the technical advisor/expert on all aspects of a specific deliverable
• Provide the quality assurance/quality control of specific deliverables
• Anticipates and resolves problems to ensure that the deliverables are completed within budget, to the highest quality, meeting or exceeding expectations
• Develops processes and procedures for implementing deliverables
• Prepares reports and presentations including options, recommendations, implementation plans, etc.
• Works with clients to define the scope of a project and to determine requirements
• Defines software, hardware and network requirements
• Analyzes I&IT requirements giving independent and objective advice on the use of I&IT
• Designs, tests, installs and monitors new systems and develops solutions and implementation of new systems
• Familiar with change-management principles and methodology
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices

The key responsibilities and deliverables to be performed by the senior (level
3) Specialized IT Consultant include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Establish and evolve formal QA processes and test tools for the branch based on industry best practices
• Ensure that all teams are aligned and adhere to the principles, guidelines and best practices of the QA strategy as defined
• Provide expertise to the branch on test processes and test tools
• Provide guidance on non-functional testing including performance, stress, and AODA
• Develop, establish, and baseline approaches and templates that will be leveraged by all teams, for:
  All test documentation including test strategies, test plans, test cases, test scripts, and metrics
• Defect management and metrics
• AODA testing
• Ensure all project teams are informed of changes in branch test approaches, tools, and processes
• Lead and mentor QA team members and provide guidance to project QA team members
• Keep up-to-date with the latest QA tools, trends and technologies and provide demos to the branch
• Define scope of regression activities for both patch and full releases
• Identify impacts and ensure traceability between defects/new requirements and test coverage is documented
• Ensure quality data testing, including validating new test data and changes in test data
• Establish well-defined entry and exit criteria for QA testing
• Work with all project QA teams to ensure alignment and adherence to best practices, methodologies and common approaches to all forms of testing
• Collaborate with the project QA team and business team to review SIT and UAT test cases to identify gaps/duplication of test coverage
• Providing recommendations to Project Leads/Sr. Project Managers as to the acceptance or rejection of any new or changed system components that may impact other applications within the platform
• Support the project BA/team leads in understanding defects to ensure appropriate prioritization with the business team
• Participate in discussions with the business regarding any changes to business and/or system requirements, with the purpose of understanding potential changes in test scope and impacts to other applications within the platform
• Support the analysis of existing business processes, design and recommend process improvements to effectively harness the benefits of using the application(s).
• Provide input and complete architectural artifacts as required;
• Support project BAs in analyzing systems requirements, screen design, workflow design, gap analysis, testing, and change management in support of any application changes;
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