Quality Assurance Analyst; Term

Doing business to business, person to person. Payworks is a leading workforce management solutions provider and multi‑year winner of the Canada’s Best Managed Companies program. We are proudly Canadian and committed to developing world‑class products and providing a progressive workplace culture where Doing Right by People is our purpose.

With clients of all sizes from coast to coast and more than 600 employees, we currently have an exciting opportunity on our Quality Assurance team for the right candidate.

Because when it comes to great people, there’s always room for one more.

Payworks develops proprietary, integrated SaaS‑based products in the payroll, human resources and time and attendance space. We create, deploy and maintain our own solutions; this requires a talented team of Quality Assurance (QA) Analysts who will ensure we deliver quality software products and solutions to our end users. As a QA Analyst with Payworks, you will analyze software requirements, execute software testing and collaborate across teams to deliver exceptional products to our users.

Using destructive creativity, the ultimate goal of the QA Analyst is to “break things” throughout the entire development process, collaborating with a variety of internal teams and enabling them to address issues before releasing to end users.

• Comprehensive employer paid benefits, including a Health Spending Account, for you and your family and excellent pension plan with employer contributions.
• Plenty of professional development opportunities.
• Community‑minded culture – Receive two paid days per year to volunteer and lots of opportunity to “Pay it Forward”.
• Time and flexibility to meet your needs – Hybrid work model with flexible work options, plus 3 weeks vacation to start, flex time and parental leave benefits.
• Cool perks – Annual Lifestyle Spending Account, fun office environment and events, and more!

• Summon your destructive nature – We build great products that delight our customers! You will be an active participant in agile development projects, ensuring stories meet acceptance criteria and pass testing during each sprint. This includes reviewing requirements, identifying risks, and creating and executing manual tests to identify issues before products are in production. You will perform tests of all kinds (Integration, End to End, Regression, etc.),
  
  log defects, support scheduled monthly outages, and create and update tickets in JIRA to follow through on product defects from failure to resolution.
• Work as part of an awesome team – Support, collaborate and create with cross‑functional teams to implement quality products for our end users. You will participate in Agile‑based product development, attending iteration kickoffs, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily scrums and retros with your team. To ensure we release high quality software you will collaborate with some talented folks, including Product Analysts, Business Analysts and Developers to better understand the scope of changes and test accordingly.
  
  We feel that exceptional and innovative development comes naturally to teams that are having fun and working together.
• Make great products even better – We are user focused and motivated to deliver high quality products that exceed our customers’ expectations. You will participate in software releases, testing assigned tickets as the release progresses through environments and performing regression testing to ensure high quality software meets our end users.

• Post Secondary degree or diploma in Information Technology and/or 1‑3 years of manual software QA experience.
• Strong understanding of software testing principles and methodologies and experience with requirements gathering, analysis, test planning and test execution.
• Excellent analytical and creative problem solving skills, with the ability to analyze data, identify trends, draw insights, and see related opportunities.
• A knack for prioritizing tasks and thriving in a collaborative environment.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills…