Quality Specialist

COFOMO; Montreal; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CoFoMo Inc. in Montreal, Quebec, is seeking a seasoned Quality Assurance professional to lead quality strategies for large initiatives, oversee testing plans, and guide teams through automated and manual testing.

The role requires French-language work with essential English communication for documentation and cross-Canada collaboration. Candidates should hold a Bachelor's degree and have at least eight years in QA, with experience in test automation and QA tools such as Xray and Postman.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an appropriate discipline.
• Minimum eight years of relevant experience in quality assurance.
• Experience in test automation.
• Master QA processes and the implementation of quality tools.
• Knowledge of QA tools such as Xray and Postman.
• Demonstrate experience in writing and executing strategies, scenarios, and test cases.
• Be organized, rigorous and have an excellent sense of responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and ensure quality strategies for large or complex initiatives.
• Collaborate with delivery teams and architectural consultants to integrate functional and non-functional quality requirements from the ideation stage.
• Advise project management in the definition, implementation and interpretation of solution quality indicators.
• Influence stakeholders to adopt best practices in quality assurance.
• Coordinate quality specialists in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data required to support testing phases and implementation strategies.
• Write the overall testing strategy and manage it.
• Review and approve detailed quality and testing strategies for application teams.
• Develop or perform technical proofreading of test cases and scripts.
• Participate in quality review meetings.
• Prepare the system testing schedule with relevant stakeholders.
• Organize the preparation of environments and data necessary to run tests.
• Follow up on test results with the teams involved.
• Support specialists in defining scopes related to stories, releases, sprints, projects and tests.
• Contribute to bug management and patch tracking.
• Analyze risks, write required reports and make recommendations.
• Prepare and recommend action plans to resolve situations encountered.
• Perform manual and automated tests as required.

Skills

Quality assurance

Test automation

Organized

Responsible

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Xray

Postman

Job description

Here’s a brief overview of the tasks and responsibilities you’ll have :

• Develop, implement and ensure quality strategies for large or complex initiatives;
• Collaborate with delivery teams and architectural consultants to integrate functional and non-functional quality requirements from the ideation stage;
• Advise project management in the definition, implementation and interpretation of solution quality indicators;
• Influence stakeholders to adopt best practices in quality assurance;
• Coordinate quality specialists in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data required to support testing phases and implementation strategies;
• Write the overall testing strategy and manage it;
• Review and approve detailed quality and testing strategies for application teams;
• Develop or perform technical proofreading of test cases and scripts;
• Participate in quality review meetings;
• Prepare the system testing schedule with relevant stakeholders;
• Organize the preparation of environments and data necessary to run tests;
• Follow up on test results with the teams involved;
• Support specialists in defining scopes related to stories, releases, sprints, projects and tests;
• Contribute to bug management and patch tracking;
• Analyze risks, write required reports and make recommendations;
• Prepare and recommend action plans to resolve situations encountered;
• Perform manual and automated tests as required.

The profile you are looking for is as follows:

• Hold a bachelor's degree in an appropriate discipline;
• Have a minimum of eight years of relevant experience in quality assurance;
• Experience in test automation;
• Master quality assurance processes and the implementation of quality tools;
• Knowledge of quality assurance tools such as Xray and Postman;
• Demonstrate experience in writing and executing strategies, scenarios, and test cases;
• Be organized, rigorous and have an excellent sense of responsibility;

This position requires working primarily in French, while requiring a functional command of English for daily tasks. This English proficiency is essential to understand documentation and ensure professional communication with customers, suppliers and colleagues across Canada.