Quality Assurance Analyst

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead test planning and execution for Waterfall and Agile projects.
• Perform manual functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing; develop and maintain automated scripts for web and API testing.
• Create and maintain comprehensive test cases for manual and automated testing to achieve full test coverage.
• Review requirements early to identify defects and ambiguities.
• Reproduce production issues, validate reported defects, and test fixes before release.
• Triage, prioritize, track, and validate defects with developers, business analysts, and stakeholders.
• Maintain test cases and requirement traceability using HP Quality Center, Azure Test Plans, or Zephyr Scale within Jira.
• Use Jira or Azure DevOps for user stories, defects, sprint tracking, reporting, and collaboration.
• Test project releases and upgrades; participate in change-management reviews and approvals.
• Follow QA policies, procedures, and SNB methodologies, and coordinate with QA, project, and business leads to meet deadlines.

Essential qualifications

• A university degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
• At least 4 years of QA testing experience in a software development environment; an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience may be considered.
• Written and spoken competence in English is required.

Candidate profile

• Client-centric, adaptable, organized, solution-oriented, and able to show initiative.
• Effective communicator and collaborator who builds relationships and shares expertise.

Location and work options

• The role has a flexible location within New Brunswick.
• The employer describes remote, hybrid, and in-office options across the province, but does not specify which arrangement applies to this position.

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