Senior Quality Assurance Analyst (Remote)

About Build With Assembly

We're an organization driven to give people time back in their day. We do this by solving challenges people experience in their lives that can be made easier with technology. We're Assembly, we help visionary leaders build platforms customers rely on and businesses thrive on.

We partner with our clients to help them adopt the cloud and build the technology assets needed to transform their business, whether that be new custom software development, cloud migrations, or application modernization of existing, legacy systems.

We're a high-performing entrepreneurial team with nearly two decades of experience helping enterprise organizations, including Honda, Acura, Brookfield, Canon, and many more continuously evolve their tech to meet their business goals.

We are a fully remote company that takes pride in having an unmatchable team of practitioners, in 5 countries across 4 continents, that have helped us rise to the ranks of being on the Profit 500, Canada's Fastest Growing Companies, Best Workplaces in Technology, and Best Workplaces in Canada (Top 50).

The Position

The Senior Quality Assurance Analyst executes and leads the team of QAs, to all phases of Testing Lifecycle through the analysis, design, execution, and maintenance of software test suites. As a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects, ranging from new and existing front-end web-based (mobile and desktop) applications to back-end API testing. You will work closely with the Product Engineering, Product and Project Management teams to create test cases, execute test suites, and create automated test cases for web and mobile applications.

You must bring leadership, analytical thinking, and be an inherently curious person who empowers yourself with continuous learning. If you consider yourself ahead of new technology, and you have a knack for speaking with different levels of stakeholders about your expertise, this role may be for you.

Your Responsibilities

• Analyze formal test results to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.
• Make recommendations for improvement of applications to the development teams
• Participate and contribute to company culture.
• Lead the collaboration with software/systems personnel in application testing, such as system, unit, regression, load, and acceptance testing methods and activities.
• Create strategic test plan approaches and suggest new methods and technologies to improve existing process
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to review and develop unit, regression, load, and acceptance testing methods and scenarios
• Ensure that testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues.
• Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of quality assurance best practices.
• Ensure that testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues
• Conduct internal audits to measure and assure adherence to established QA standards for software development, application integration, information system performance, and corresponding documentation
• Improve applications to programmers and software developers or engineers.
• Lead daily standups, sprint planning, and project retrospectives.
• Develop required QA artifacts including, but not limited to, master test strategy and plan, functional test plan, QA acceptance plan/sign off, defect tracking report.
• Inspire innovation and cultivate a positive and supportive team.
• Create and execute test plans and scripts that will determine optimal application performance according to specifications
• Stay up to date with current best practices and emerging technologies.
• Create AODA (Accessibility) reports at end of test cycles as required.
• Review of documentation and/or test results in all QA test phases such as requirements validation, unit, integration, functional, and regression testing
• Execute test plans and scripts / cases that will determine optimal application performance according to specifications.
• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and team members.
• Create both manual and automated tests and execute tests for software and systems.

About You

• Experienced in working in Agile environment
• Experience and knowledge of software quality tools (ie. test case management, project planning, defect management, automation)
• Experience with web/mobile application testing (browser compatibility, responsive testing, etc.)
• Sense of urgency and ability to work under tight timelines.
• Highly collaborative and dynamic
• Experience with Test Automation (Nice to have)
• Good organizational and time-management skills
• Experienced in web/mobile application technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript etc.
• Proactive in raising potential risks/concerns
• 3+ years direct experience as a lead tester for major application integration and/or major application product release
• Clear, concise and articulate. Good written and oral communication skills with the ability to present to various levels of stakeholder.
• Understanding of DevOps principles, processes and tools (e.g. IaC, CI/CD and orchestration)
• Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle Methodology,
• Good understanding of the quality assurance discipline, the defect lifecycle management processes, and the software commonly used for test planning and defect tracking (eg. Jira, Bugzilla, etc.)
• Good knowledge of structured test methods and processes
• 3+ years of automation testing using frameworks with JavaScript bindings
• 8+ years direct experience in the design, development, and implementation of quality assurance standards for software testing
• Understanding of user centric design principles, content, navigation, usability, behavioural analytics tagging, accessibility, SEO, localization/multi-lingual and personalization considerations
• Experience testing in Window OS, Mac OS, Mobile OS (Android, iOS), etc.
• Ability to take ownership of tasks and projects assigned with minimal supervision
• Experience in developing test plans, writing test scripts, developing use cases, governing quality standards, vetting and guiding requirements/acceptance criteria, and assisting business users through user acceptance test processes.
• A bachelor's degree in Engineering, computer science, information systems or a related field.
• Understanding of cloud computing architecture, services and platforms
• Ability to communicate ideas both technically and non-technically.
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript and applicable experience using JavaScript
• Results oriented, critical thinker, good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with testing APIs using tools such as Postman
• 5 – 7 years of experience in a Senior Quality Assurance/ Quality Assurance Lead role

We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.