Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Position Title: Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Department: Information Technology

Location: Toronto

Status: Fixed-term, full-time - 12 months (Hybrid)

The incumbent will be part of a dynamic team testing a large scale, high-performance market surveillance system to monitor financial exchanges and ATS’s in Canada. Special focus will be on gathering benchmarks, testing system performance, intricate alerts and reports, hardware, software and messaging data feeds.

• Create, prepare and develop test plans, test strategies, ambiguity reviews and test signoffs while adhering to testing standards.
• Assist in the requirements, design, testing, implementation, and documentation of new enhancements, writing test scripts and performing testing of the solutions.
• Work with Business Analysts and internal business units to understand dealer member and surveillance requirements and establish appropriate functional and non-functional testing coverage of real-time alerts and reports.
• Create and develop test cases and suites based on project requirements and testing standards, ensuring sufficient test coverage and traceability.
• Design and develop automation framework to reduce manual effort of testing.
• Assist developers with test data and unit test cases development.
• Extensive understanding of all phases of software testing – functional, integration, regression, user acceptance and release management.
• Design test strategy and set the direction for testing to validate environment readiness and help transition solutions into production.
• Mentor and coach other QA team members in implementing new testing methodologies (Agile).
• Interact with internal and client cross‑functional teams to ensure successful execution of the test cases during development and successful transition to production.
• Assist in the testing of financial communication protocols between IIROC and marketplaces including FIX and news feeds.
• Identify the resolution of problems and validate fixes provided by the development team.

• Minimum of 5 years of related technical testing, business and project experience.
• Strong technical knowledge in testing methodologies, design and implementation, and comprehensive test case development.
• Highly analytical with strong leadership, consulting and problem‑solving ability.
• Experience with messaging protocols and translation & mapping techniques.
• Experience with databases, data mapping, and query & reporting tools.
• Solid analytical, planning, negotiating and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Strong documentation and organizational skills.
• University degree or college certification in Business, Information Systems.

• Extensive knowledge in investment industry/capital markets and regulatory requirements.
• Knowledge of market data and trading systems.
• Experience with financial communications protocols (FIX 4.2, FIX 4.4 or FIX 5.0).
• Experience in test automation tools like Selenium, QTP etc.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of Microsoft SQL Server, T‑SQL, SSIS, SSAS and SSRS.
• Prior experience testing and maintaining Dynamics CRM/Dynamics NAV or similar CRM/ERP applications.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodology, SDLC and STLC principles.
• Hands on experience with tools (TFS, JIRA & Confluence).
• Knowledge with Microsoft Office 365, Power BI, Microsoft Azure and Azure Active Directory.
• Knowledge of Power Shell, Python, VB, JavaScript and F# programming languages.
• Experience and strong knowledge with Red Hat Linux based systems and shell scripts (Unix, AIX, Linux).
• Good to have – Business Analyst experience.
• Good to have – experience in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
• Good to have – ISTQB or equivalent certification.
• Canadian Securities Course and/or equivalent knowledge.

• Competitive base salary in alignment with market.
• Performance based bonus.
• Hybrid work environment.
• Employer paid health benefits and spending account that offer flexibility to meet your individual or family needs as of day one.
• Defined contribution pension plan with company matching that starts on your first day of employment.
• Paid flex days and sick days.
• Vacation days.
• Ma…