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Cloudious LLC

Quality Assurance Project Manager

Hybrid

Toronto, Canada

Freelance

09-03-2026

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Skills

Communication Leadership Test Effective Communication Architecture

Job Specifications

Project Planning & Delivery Management

• Define and manage the end‑to‑end migration plan, including development, QA, non‑production and production readiness phases. Must be proactive in identifying tasks as the team is new to cloud migration.

• Create intakes to engage resources (Consumers) and ensure that all teams submit estimates and identify their Dev and QA Leads.

• Establish delivery milestones, timelines, and dependencies across development, testing, infrastructure, and deployment activities.

• Coordinate phased delivery (e.g., development completion → QA → production rollout) to minimize risk and business disruption. Ability to manage the different phases in parallel is required.

• Ensure delivery remains on schedule and within approved scope, escalating deviations as required.

Stakeholder & Cross‑Functional Coordination

• Serve as the central point of coordination across engineering, architecture, platform/cloud, security (SPIR), QA, operations (MOR), and business stakeholders.

• Facilitate alignment between the Digital Core technical teams and business owners (Consumers) to ensure migrated services meet functional and enterprise expectations.

• Maintain effective communication cadences and provide clear, executive‑level status reporting. Deliver Weekly status report to all stakeholders and Monthly report to Operating Committee.

Governance, Risk & Dependency Management

• Identify, monitor, and proactively manage project risks, with particular focus on migration‑specific risks such as:

Legacy system dependencies

Data integrity and service continuity

Integration with downstream consumers

• Manage critical dependencies between on‑prem systems and cloud services to avoid downstream delays.

• Ensure compliance with enterprise governance, security, privacy, and cloud standards.

Cloud Migration Enablement

• Support the transition from on‑prem infrastructure to cloud‑native services, ensuring teams understand migration scope, sequencing, and constraints.

• Reinforce cloud‑first and reusable service principles, helping align delivery with long‑term modernization and cost‑reduction objectives.

• Coordinate infrastructure readiness (e.g., environments, access, tooling) required to support development, QA, and production deployment.

Quality & Readiness Oversight

• Ensure clear entry and exit criteria between phases (development, QA, production).

• Coordinate QA readiness, including test planning, defect/variance triage processes, and deployment readiness reviews.

• Validate that documentation, support models, and operational handoffs are in place ahead of production cutover.

Financial & Value Management

• Track project progress against approved budget and resourcing assumptions.

• Ensure project properties in clarity is complete, accurate and up to date.

• Manage the team list, forecasts run cost plans first week of each month.

• Provide justification/rationale for any cost variance between forecast and actual.

• Run PM Audit Attestation.

Executive Reporting & Decision Support

• Provide clear, concise updates to sponsors and leadership on progress, risks, and key decisions – Monthly.

• Provide status updates to the project team and consumers – Weekly.

• Prepare leadership for upcoming milestones (e.g., QA start, production deployment).

• Enable timely decisions through transparent data, options, and impact assessments.

About the Company

In today's highly connected and competitive business industry, consulting is the core of any organization. At Cloudious, we call this "Connecting Minds". For us, this is more than just a saying or tagline, it is our goal every day. Our mission is to solve our client's problems, and we do this by connecting them with the best and brightest talent around. Our Founder and executive team possess over 40 years of experience solving workforce and talent acquisition challenges across multiple industries and for clients large and ... Know more