QA Analyst

We’re looking for a QA Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contract
Title: QA Analyst
Term: Full-Time
Location: Remote for now – Mississauga
Job ID number: C1351

Brief description of duties:

• Act as a key point of contact for all QA-related matters in a product development setting, providing QA services, and conducting manual and automated testing.
• Work closely with the rest of the product development team to provide testing to the software delivery process within a distributed team.
• Interpret business requirements and business rules related to Canada Life environments and translate them into test scenarios.
• Drive the creation of next-generation testing frameworks, test automation, continuous integration, release techniques, and test infrastructure to improve testing and to increase the speed of release cycles.
• Design and document test automation activities in formal test plans, test suites, and test runs.
• Coordinate the end-to-end integration testing effort across distributed systems.
• Work towards the improvement of formal test automation processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices.
• Create time estimates for test activities.
• Contribute to an environment of continuous learning and improvement.

Required skills:

• Practical experience testing distributed software systems.
• Practical experience with continuous integration and testing frameworks (g. Postman, SoapUI, Jenkins, Bamboo, Selenium, Cucumber, JUnit, JMeter, NodeJS).
• Hands-on experience with UI, APIs, SOAPand RESTful services testing.
• Solid understanding of application-based solutions, WSDL/XML/JSON, ETL, and event-based technologies.
• Knowledge of JIRA and Confluence collaboration tools.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and within a distributed team.
• Proficiency in testing API, ETL, and event-based solutions.
• Proficiency in troubleshooting and problem-solving with attention to detail.
• Experience designing test strategies and coordinating work efforts on multiple projects.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and best practices.

MUST-have:

• Bachelor of Computer Science / Software Engineering or equivalent degree required.
• Minimum 2+ progressive software testing experience related to software delivery projects.