Senior Software Quality Analyst

Location: Burlington, Canada (Hybrid - 3 days per week in the office, 2 days remote)

• Collaborate with development/PM teams to understand new features and updates, develop test design of user scenarios, test cases and checklists.
• Identify, document, and track software defects and inconsistencies, providing detailed information for the development team to resolve issues efficiently.
• Execute detailed manual tests to validate new features and ensure existing functionality remains intact. Perform regression, smoke, sanity, and exploratory testing.
• Advocate for quality assurance best practices throughout the software development lifecycle, contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Coordinating test activities across teams by tracking and reporting release quality metrics.
• Stay abreast of new technologies and tools in quality assurance, integrating them into testing practices to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Contribute to the automated testing strategy and drive continuous improvements to enhance test coverage, reliability, and efficiency.
• Mentor, coach, and provide guidance to junior and mid‑level QA engineers.

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM engineering discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics).
• 5-8+ years of experience in Quality Assurance.
• Strong understanding of QA principles, methodologies, and techniques.
• Strong leadership and ownership for product quality, ensuring issues are identified early and resolved effectively.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills with cross-functional teams.
• Skilled at building a team culture based on ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Strong defect identification, documentation, and reproduction skills.
• Ability to work beyond strict testing guidelines, including creating test cases and test plans even when requirements or acceptance criteria are incomplete or unclear.
• Technical knowledge of test environment setup, including configuration, troubleshooting, and environment readiness checks.
• Well defined technical career path, from Senior Developer to Principal, Senior Principal and Distinguished Developer.

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