Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to collaborate with cross-functional business teams in an agile environment for customer-facing applications

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to collaborate with cross-functional business teams in an agile environment for customer-facing applications

Hybrid in Edmonton or Calgary

Must haves:

• 7+ years’ experience developing test cases/scenarios and coordinating system testing or user acceptance testing.
• Senior level experience with regression testing
• Experience on agile development teams is beneficial.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Visio and experience with ALM, UFT, CFactory and Jira.
• Hands-on project experience with at least one Test Automation and Test Management toolset on at least one enterprise level application development project would be considered an asset.
• Decision-making ability and demonstrated leadership are essential.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to recognize symptoms, diagnose causes and identify alternative solutions.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to multitask and meet the challenges of a fast-paced changing environment.
• A related technical degree or diploma is required.

Nice to haves:

• Experience as a QA Lead on projects is desired.
• Experience in an Oracle environment using TOAD would be considered an asset.
• Working knowledge of/experience with Project Management body of knowledge and software development methodologies would be beneficial.

Responsibilities:

• Estimate tasks and timelines for testing and identify potential schedule or project problems and provide solutions to alleviate the problems.
• Review and understand use cases, user stories, non-functional requirements and design documents.
• Develop test plans, test cases, and test scenarios to ensure requirements have been met.
• Develop automated test scripts and execute test data loading scripts.
• Create traceability of test cases to requirements.
• Coordinate and schedule testing in a multi-user, multi-project test environment.
• Responsible for technical documentation of tests results and program specifications including test failures and successes.
• Execute test cases and interact with the development team to provide test results, report defects and discuss the impacts on product quality.
• Retest resolved defects, track trends, and report metrics to business sponsor and project manager.
• Compile test results and write test reports.