- Company Name
- Canadian Red Cross
- Job Title
- Quality Assurance Analyst
- Job Description
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**Job Title:** Quality Assurance Analyst
**Role Summary:**
Ensure software quality through planning, design, execution, and maintenance of manual and automated tests. Collaborate across development, business, and support teams to identify defects, verify requirements, and drive continuous improvement of QA processes.
**Expectations:**
- Deliver comprehensive test documentation (plans, suites, cases, metrics).
- Maintain and enhance test case repositories.
- Manage defect lifecycle: report, track, troubleshoot, and close.
- Provide UAT training and support.
- Execute regression, performance, load, and usability tests.
- Contribute to test strategy and risk mitigation.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Write, execute, and maintain manual test cases and automated scripts.
- Peer‑review test artifacts and provide constructive feedback.
- Run regression tests on new builds to ensure stability.
- Update and manage Test Case Repository and suites.
- Train business users on UAT execution.
- Manage defects using standard tools, ensuring timely resolution.
- Coordinate with developers, analysts, product owners, and support to guarantee quality throughout the SDLC.
- Assist in defining test strategies, including manual vs. automated balance and tool selection.
- Produce test documentation (plans, suites, traceability matrices, summaries).
- Conduct demos for stakeholders and identify QA process improvements.
**Required Skills:**
- 5+ years of software QA experience.
- Strong knowledge of SDLC, test management, and bug tracking tools (Jira, Asana, Zephyr, Azure DevOps).
- Proficient in manual and automated testing, test plan/write, test execution, and defect reporting.
- Experience with web, mobile, and SaaS applications.
- Familiarity with requirement verification, test data development, test environment configuration, and script management.
- Basic to intermediate SQL and scripting (Python, similar) for test automation.
- Experience with Usability/UX, Accessibility, Load, and Performance testing (asset).
- Hands‑on use of TestComplete, Postman, and Azure DevOps (asset).
- Fluent in English; French a plus.
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- University degree in Computer Science or equivalent QA/software development experience.
- QA methodology certification (Intermediate to Advanced) preferred.