QA AEM Analyst

Overview

Saatchi & Saatchi is hiring a QA Analyst with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) experience to support ongoing content and feature delivery for marketing teams. Full-time and freelance opportunities are available, with positions starting immediately. You should have at least 4 years of professional QA experience, with hands‑on exposure to AEM or comparable enterprise CMS platforms.

You have a structured approach to testing, strong attention to detail, and the ability to work closely with content authors and developers to maintain quality across frequent, incremental releases.

• Develop and execute test plans for AEM-based web properties, including content pages, component configurations, templates, and authoring workflows.
• Validate content author changes across environments (author, publish, dispatcher) to ensure accuracy and consistency before go-live.
• Perform cross-browser and cross-device testing for marketing pages, campaign landing pages, and component updates.
• Test AEM component behavior, dialog configurations, content policies, and experience fragments.
• Conduct regression testing on shared components and templates after incremental updates to prevent downstream impact.
• Validate content publishing workflows, replication, and cache invalidation across environments.
• Perform accessibility audits on marketing content to ensure WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.
• Collaborate with marketing teams and content authors to understand requirements and acceptance criteria for content changes.
• Triage and prioritize defects, working with developers to ensure timely resolution before campaign deadlines.
• Document test cases, results, and quality metrics to support release decisions.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies and contribute to quality discussions during planning and retrospectives.

• +4 years of professional experience in software or web QA.
• Hands‑on experience testing AEM Sites (6.x or AEM as a Cloud Service), including authoring, publishing, and dispatcher validation.
• Experience testing across multiple browsers and devices, with attention to responsive behavior.
• Familiarity with AEM authoring interfaces, content components, templates, and experience fragments.
• Understanding of content publishing workflows, replication agents, and caching behavior.
• Experience with defect tracking and test management tools (Jira, Azure Dev Ops, or similar).
• Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1) and experience performing accessibility checks on web content.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and working in sprint-based delivery.
• Experience with Git and version control workflows.
• Strong documentation skills for test plans, test cases, and defect reports.

• Strong attention to detail with a commitment to quality, particularly around content accuracy.
• Excellent communication skills for working directly with marketing teams, content authors, and developers.
• Resourceful and self‑directed problem solver.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent content streams and prioritize effectively.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced marketing environment with frequent, deadline‑driven releases.
• Proactive mindset — flags issues early rather than waiting for formal handoffs

• Experience with AEM as a Cloud Service (cloud‑native deployment model).
• Familiarity with AEM Edge Delivery Services or Franklin/Helix.
• Experience with API testing tools (Postman, REST clients) for validating AEM content APIs or integrations.
• Experience with test automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or similar).
• Familiarity with analytics validation (Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Tag Manager).
• Experience with DAM (Digital Asset Management) testing and asset workflow validation.
• Knowledge of SEO validation and structured data testing.
• ISTQB or other QA certifications.

Location & Eligibility: Candidates must be based in the Greater Toronto Area with valid Canadian work authorization of at least 12 months.

Hybrid Work: This role is mostly remote and suitable for candidates within the GTA area, with a presence of once a month at our Toronto office (111 Queen St. E, Suite 200, Toronto, ON M5C…