Senior QA Analyst

IKO North America; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading building materials company in Mississauga seeks a Senior QA Analyst to define test strategies and improve quality assurance processes. The role requires strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and a minimum of 5 years of QA experience, especially with Salesforce. This position demands good communication skills and an ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience with software QA testing or similar.
• Experience with Salesforce is a must.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define test strategy, test approach, and environment requirements.
• Design and prepare test data.
• Log defects and follow up with the development team.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver business value.

Skills

Software testing

Agile methodologies

Test automation

Salesforce

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

JIRA

Git

Jenkins

Browserstack

AccelQ

Job description

Overview

IKO Industries Ltd. is a market leader in the manufacturing of roofing and building materials. IKO is a Canadian owned and operated business with production facilities worldwide and has many years of unparalleled success in the roofing materials industry. Quality, integrity, and trustworthiness are the values that underlie this success, and we have built this company by hiring people who hold these values. People like you

Position

Senior QA Analyst who will be responsible for defining test approach, plan various tests (function test, integration test, UAT, etc.), log defects and follow up with developer team to get defect fixed, working with scrum master and product owner as well as development team to deliver business value on time and within budget.

This opportunity is based fully onsite at our Mississauga, ON office location.

Benefits

• Health Insurance (includes Virtual Health, and HCSA)
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Long-term Disability
• Short-term Disability
• RRSP Match
• Paid Vacation
• Floating Days
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Engagement Events
• Awards and Recognition
• Tuition reimbursement
• Service Awards
• Employee Perks & Discounts

Job Responsibilities

• Define test strategy, test approach, and test environment requirement
• Design and prepare test data
• Creates test plans, innovative test cases, release notes, test logs etc. based on requirements and test execution
• Executes test cases and log / report defects, raise issues or concerns to the team
• Write automated test scripts based on test-case specifications
• Maintain QA documents up-to-date across Sprint
• Collaborate with the team to define, design, and ship new features
• Suggest ways and implement them to improve Agile testing practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor\'s degree in computer science or related technical field
• Minimum 5 years of experience with software or application QA testing or similar experience in a software development environment
• Experience of Salesforce is a must
• Possess strong knowledge of core concepts and principles of Agile Development and Delivery models. SCRUM, KANBAN.
• Have previous QA experience (at least one complete project life cycle): end to end QA processes, documentation process, understand test methodologies, Unit Test Framework
• Have a passion for software testing and can create innovative test cases
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt rapidly to the latest technologies and best practices
• Ability to work in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Team player with strong sense of responsibility
• Result driven and a problem solver with a "can-do" attitude
• Self-starter who enjoys taking initiative
• Good written and verbal communication skills to describe the findings
• Ability to discuss system issues
• Familiarity with development and configuration tools (Git, Jira, Jenkins, etc.)

Additional Skills

• Ability to present complex information clearly and concisely to different levels of the organization (written and verbal – i.e. PowerPoint)
• Analytical and critical thinking skills
• Working experience with a leading Ecommerce and Integration platform(s) including but not limited to;
• Project Collaboration Tools, such as JIRA, TRELLO, Slack
• Testing Tools, such as Browserstack
• Automatic Testing Suites, such as AccelQ
• WordPress
• Oracle Fusion Middleware
• Integration Frameworks (SOAP, REST, JSON)
• XML / XML Schema and experience with Data Modeling
• SharePoint experience is an asset
• Basic knowledge of CSS / HTML / Javascript

Benefits of Employment

IKO recognizes that its success is due to the strength of its employees. A primary goal of IKO is to promote individual employee\'s sense of accomplishment and contribution so that employees enjoy their association with IKO. The Company invests in its employees so that they are the most knowledgeable in the industry, and undertakes great efforts to nurture loyalty to, and teamwork at, IKO. We are pleased to offer competitive compensation, health care, a progressive and challenging workplace and a commitment to teamwork and integrity.

Diversity and Equal Opportunity Employment

IKO Industries Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability. IKO Industries Ltd. encourages and welcomes applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.