Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
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Langara College is seeking a Senior QA Analyst to coordinate and execute quality assurance activities for IT projects, including test planning, execution, and user acceptance testing.
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Responsibilities
- Perform requirements analysis and senior quality assurance testing duties, including test estimating, building, planning, management, coordination, and execution
- Perform reviews of complex business and functional requirements and ensure creation of QA test plans and test cases
- Prepare, coordinate, monitor, and assist in planning and execution of User Acceptance Testing
- Develop and maintain established QA standards within all IT projects
- Translate requirements into test plans, test cases, and QA artifacts
- Contribute to implementation, documentation, and evolution of QA procedures and methodologies
- Support QA intermediate Analysts in complex issues
- Write technical and non technical documentation and conduct training sessions
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in Computing Science or a related field
- Minimum six years of recent experience performing Senior QA activities in ERP and other business applications
- Proven understanding of UML and experience with UML modeling tools
- Extensive experience developing and executing all types of test cases (functional, non functional, security, performance, integration)
- Extensive experience building complex test plans
- Experience with database platforms: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL
- Experience in API testing, including data mapping and data transformation
- Extensive experience with test management and defect management tools such as JIRA and JAMA
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Job Summary
- The Senior QA Analyst assists in development, coordination and execution of plans and activities of the Langara IT QA team.
- Coordinates and performs comprehensive reviews of complex business and functional requirements.
- Assists in design, development and implementation of testing strategies, methodologies and plans.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Performs requirements analysis and senior quality assurance testing duties.
- Provides specialized QA expertise as input to quality assurance of College computer systems.
- Performs reviews of complex business and functional requirements.
- Represents and provides QA expertise when liaising with users, other IT groups and external communities.
- Prepares, coordinates, monitors, and assists in planning and execution of User Acceptance Testing.
- Develops and maintains established QA standards within all IT projects.
- Translates requirements into test plans, test cases, and QA artifacts.
- Contributes to implementation, documentation, and evolution of QA procedures.
- Supports QA intermediate Analysts in complex issues.
- Writes technical and non technical documentation; conducts training sessions.
- Engages in business analysis and product management processes under supervision of Product Manager.
- Performs other related duties and/or projects as required.
Qualifications Required
- Undergraduate degree in Computing Science or a related field.
- Minimum six years of recent experience performing Senior QA activities in ERP and other business applications.
- Experience working in higher education preferred.
- Proven understanding of UML and experience with UML modeling tools.
- Extensive experience developing and executing all types of test cases.
- Extensive experience building and developing complex test plans.
- Extensive experience estimating, building, scheduling and executing test efforts.
- Proven experience working in Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL.
- Experience planning and testing in complex enterprise environments.
- Experience in integration testing techniques, web services, and web servers.
- Comprehensive understanding and experience in API testing.
- Extensive experience with test management and defect management tools such as JIRA and JAMA.
Why Join Langara?
- Extensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Hybrid work program for eligible positions
- Generous vacation package plus paid time off during college winter closure
- Employer paid defined benefit pension plan
- Potential eligibility for educational, training, and developmental programs
- Access to on site daycare subject to availability
- Tuition waivers for courses at Langara College
- Course/program tuition reimbursements
- Wellness classes and campus engagement events
Salary Range
- CAD 45.73 CAD 52.09 per hour
- Pay Grade: CUPE IT Paygrade H
- Scheduled Weekly Hours: 35
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