TBIPS - Stream 5 - Quality Assurance Specialist/Analyst

Task-Based Informatics Professional Services (TBIPS-SA) Requirement

This requirement is for the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.

This requirement is open only to those Supply Arrangement Holders who qualified under Tier 1 – Stream 5 – Project Management

This requirement is open only to those invited TBIPS Supply Arrangement Holders who qualified under the categories for: P.11. : Quality Assurance Specialist/Analyst

The following SA Holders have been invited to submit a proposal.

Name of invited TBIPS SA Holders

1092009 Ontario Inc. (Personnel Force) Amtek Engineering services Ltd. Cistel Technology Inc. Excel Human Resources Inc. Hitachi Data Systems Inc. IBM Canada Ltd. IT/Net - Ottawa Inc. Lumina IT inc. Messa Computing Inc. OpenFrame Technologies, Inc. Promaxis Systems Inc Robert Half Canada Inc S.i. Systems Ltd. Spaghetti Logic Inc. Spearhead Management Canada Ltd. TECSIS Corporation TPG Technology Consulting Ltd. Veritaaq Technology House Inc.

Description of the requirement

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has a requirement for a Quality Assurance Specialist/Analyst as indicated above. Objective and Scope CNSC requires the full time professional services of one (1) Level 3 Quality Assurance Analyst (QA). The QA Analyst will reports to the CNSC Senior QA Analyst, and will be accountable for developing test plans, test cases and test reports for CNSC applications. This includes applying verification and validation theories and principles to the quality control of assigned areas of software functionality.

Technical Environment • Visual Studio 2008, 2012 • C#, VisualBasic.Net (VB.Net), ActiveServerPages.Net (ASP.net), .Net Frameworks 3.5, 4.0 & 4.5, Enterprise library 4.x and 5.x, Web Client Software Factory, Entity Framework 1 and 4 • Microsoft SharePoint 2007 • .NET SQL Authorization Manager (NetSQLAzMan) • Windows 2008 R2 servers • Team Foundation Server 2012 • SQL Server 2008 • Microsoft Windows 7 • Microsoft Office 2010 Tasks The QA Analyst’s tasks include but are not limited to the following • Reviewing project documentation to assess project needs from a testing perspective • Developing Test Plans • Preparing test scenarios, test cases and test data • Estimating test effort • Executing test scenarios and test cases • Assembling test documentation • Analyzing test results • Working with the developers to determine cause of failure • Performing different types of testing as defined in the System Development Life Cycle (e.g. functional and regression) • Logging, investigating and monitoring defects. • Providing status updates to Senior QA Analyst regarding progress made • Assisting end-users to develop User acceptance test plan and test cases. Deliverables The QA Analyst will collaborate with the project team to produce the documents that will include, but are not limited to: • Test plans • Test cases • Test data • Test Reports • Defects log NOTE: The resource must be willing to work outside of normal working hours including weekends as and when required by the Project Authority.

Security requirement at bid closing: Valid Facility Security Clearance at the level of SECRET, issued by the Canadian Industrial Security Directorate (CISD), Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC).

Incumbent in the last 12 months: Yes. Contract 87055-13-0208 with Promaxis from September 26, 2013 to November 25, 2014.

Proposed period of contract

The proposed period of contract shall be from contract award plus 230 days and two irrevocable option periods of 100 days as Option Period 1 and 100 days as Option Period 2.

File Number: 87055-14-0314 Contracting Authority: Marielle Prince Phone Number: 613-996-6747 Fax Number: 613-995-5086 E-Mail: marielle.prince@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca

NOTE: Task-Based Informatics Professional Services (TBIPS) Method of Supply is refreshed on an annual basis. If you wish to find out how you can be a “Qualified SA Holder”, please contact RCNMDAI.-NCRIMOS@pwgsc.gc.ca