Senior Quality Analyst

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 64,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits & retirement

Performance incentives

Continuing Education

Well-being perks

Career growth

Broadband access

Job summary

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited in Calgary, Alberta is seeking a Senior Quality Analyst to lead testing across complex features and end-to-end flows. You will drive test strategy, plan activities, coordinate execution, manage defects, and ensure release readiness within an Agile delivery team.

The role focuses on building quality into the SDLC through early requirements analysis, risk-based testing, and comprehensive coverage.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in a Quality Assurance / Quality Engineering position or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of QE methodologies and hands-on testing approaches.
• Advanced requirements analysis and interpretation skills.
• Extensive experience writing functional test cases for Sanity, Smoke, System, Integration, Regression, and End-to-End testing.
• Strong functional and integration testing proficiency.
• Proven defect management and triage experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive test strategy documentation outlining the direction for all testing activities throughout an initiative's lifecycle.
• Lead QA activities for assigned initiatives, including test planning, execution coordination, and sign-off support.
• Provide guidance and day-to-day direction to junior QEs, including review of test cases and testing approach.
• Support defect triage discussions and recommend risk-based testing priorities.
• Execute functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing for complex features, applications, and end-to-end business flows.
• Lead cross-functional integration and end-to-end testing efforts to ensure comprehensive validation of system interactions and workflows.
• Design, review, and maintain test cases based on requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, ensuring adequate coverage of business and technical risks.
• Validate fixes and retest defects to ensure resolution and prevent regressions.
• Identify, log, prioritize, and track defects with clear reproduction steps; work closely with developers, Product Owners, and stakeholders to drive timely resolution.
• Collaborate with Test Automation Engineers to identify automation candidates and support automation coverage from a functional perspective.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Quality Engineering

Test planning

Defect management

Test execution

Mentoring

Job description

What You’ll Do:

The Senior Quality Analyst is an experienced Quality Engineering professional responsible for leading quality activities within assigned initiatives and ensuring effective testing across complex features, applications, and end-to-end business flows. This role operates as the primary QA point of contact within the delivery team, providing direction on test strategy, planning, execution, defect management, and release readiness, while working closely with developers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and other stakeholders. The Senior Quality Analyst helps ensure quality is built in throughout the SDLC through early requirements analysis, risk-based testing, comprehensive test coverage, and effective coordination of testing activities. The Senior Quality Analyst plays a critical role in improving product quality, identifying and managing quality risks, strengthening team-level quality execution, and providing guidance to junior analysts while ensuring testing aligns with established Quality Engineering processes and standards.

Testing & Execution

• Develop comprehensive test strategy documentation outlining the direction for all testing activities throughout an initiative's lifecycle
• Lead QA activities for assigned initiatives, including test planning, execution coordination, and sign-off support.
• Provide guidance and day-to-day direction to junior QEs, including review of test cases and testing approach.
• Support defect triage discussions and recommend risk-based testing priorities.
• Execute functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing for complex features, applications, and end-to-end business flows.
• Lead cross-functional integration and end-to-end testing efforts to ensure comprehensive validation of system interactions and workflows.
• Design, review, and maintain test cases based on requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, ensuring adequate coverage of business and technical risks.
• Validate fixes and retest defects to ensure resolution and prevent regressions.
• Identify, log, prioritize, and track defects with clear reproduction steps; work closely with developers, Product Owners, and stakeholders to drive timely resolution.

Sprint & Team Collaboration

• Act as the primary QA point of contact for the Agile team or project.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies, including planning, stand-ups, refinements, and retrospectives, providing QA leadership and direction.
• Lead and actively contribute to requirements refinement sessions, ensuring clarity, completeness, and testability of requirements.
• Work closely with Agile teams (developers/PO/BSA) to clarify expected behavior, dependencies, and edge cases.
• Ensure all stories and features meet the Definition of Done from a quality and risk perspective.

Documentation & Support

• Maintain and review clear test evidence, test scenarios, and documentation as required.
• Coordinate and support test data setup and environment readiness across testing phases.
• Ensure testing activities align with established QA processes and team standards.
• Provide test status, risk assessment, and release readiness updates to the team and stakeholders.

Additional Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Test Automation Engineers to identify automation candidates and support automation coverage from a functional perspective.
• Share functional knowledge and testing insights with the Agile team to improve overall product quality.
• Proven self-starter with ability to work highly independently.

What You Bring:

• Minimum 5 years in a Quality Assurance / Quality Engineering position or equivalent
• Strong understanding of QE methodologies and hands‑on testing approaches.
• Advanced requirements analysis and interpretation skills.
• Extensive experience writing functional test cases for Sanity, Smoke, System, Integration, Regression, and End-to-End testing.
• Strong functional and integration testing proficiency.
• Proven defect management and triage experience.
• Solid knowledge of test design techniques and risk‑based testing

Location: Calgary, Alberta (Hybrid: In-office 4 days a week)

Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
• Performance incentives, Continuing Education Programs
• Other perks to support your well‑being
• Career growth opportunities and product discounts
• Broadband

Salary Range:

Salary Range: $64,000 – $106,000. Our typical hiring range is between $64,000 and $85,000. Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role‑specific requirements. For critical roles, the compensation offering will be reviewed to ensure alignment with market rate and conditions and the unique value you bring to the role.

Additional Information

#LI-AK1 This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization. We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, over 1,600 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market‑leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits‑eligible employees and their families, including total well‑being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees.

Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility.

Core Values:

we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility.

It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity‑seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.

We are one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With world‑class owned brands and exciting market‑leading merchandising strategies, we are continually innovating with purpose: to excite and serve Canadian customers from coast-to-coast. We are connected to communities, big and small, from coast-to-coast, offering products and services that reflect the diverse nature of every one of them. From sports to outdoors, automobiles to homes, we know and understand life in Canada like no other retailer can. We are always on the lookout for curious, creative people who are able to navigate and excel in a rapidly evolving retail environment. If you’re ready to take on new challenges – be it in digital, IT, marketing, data & analytics, merchandising, or one of the many other roles we have – there is a place for you here, so apply today.