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PQA has been going strong since 1997! As Canada's largest and most established independent software testing company, we insist on working with 'quality' people who share our passion for doing the job right! We are obsessed with quality and testing, and have built a team of people who believe quality is the most important deliverable.
We take pride in our commitment to the communities across Canada in which we are located because we know there is more to life than work. Our team members enjoy opportunities for continuous learning and they work with leading-edge companies, technologies, and tools.
We are growing in Vancouver, BC and are looking for a Senior Tester to join our team! Experience with ERP testing is an asset. Candidates based in Vancouver will receive preference, though we will also consider strong candidates committed to working Pacific Time business hours.
Responsibilities:
- Review applications for testing maturity - requirements coverage, testing artifacts, etc.
- Prioritize and provide recommendations for testing needs
- Create project test plans and strategy
- Provide work estimates and QA-specific resource requirements
- Provide guidance and best practices for testing, following our client's standards and processes
- Review requirements for testability, ambiguity, and redundancy
- Ensure traceability matrices are available
- Communicate the progress and status of testing
- Identify testing risks and provide risk mitigation plans
- Coordinate the testing efforts for projects that involve multiple applications or portfolios
- Identify QA resources needed for projects
- Provide testing metrics and KPIs
- Keep stakeholders informed of the progress and status with appropriate dashboards and reports
- Escalate QA issues to the project manager
Qualifications:
- 7+ years in QA and 3+ years of Test Lead experience is mandatory
- Siebel test automation experience is mandatory
- Exceptional communication skills and interpersonal abilities are key for this role
- Agile experience is preferred
- Senior-level experience with test planning and strategies
- Experience in test automation is a nice-to-have
- Solid understanding of API testing
- General knowledge of performance testing
- Good understanding of SQL (PL-SQL, MS SQL Stored Procedures)
- Experience using Micro Focus ALM is an asset
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work dynamically across multiple projects
Who We Are
Professional Quality Assurance (PQA) is Canada's software testing specialist. Since 1997, we have been helping organizations all over the world reach their quality objectives by delivering scalable, proven, quality-centric managed services. Companies such as Apple, Suncor, TD Bank, Medavie, BCLC, LinkedIn, Boeing, and many others have gained considerable advantage from our Quality Assurance (QA), Testing, and eLearning expertise and experience.
We deliver specialized QA services to our clients with the goal of helping them increase profitability, boost customer satisfaction, manage development cycles and implement quality-centric solutions. We develop innovative approaches and solutions, designed to generate increased efficiencies, competitive advantage and market share for our clients.
Work With Us
At PQA Testing, we encourage our employees' personal career growth. We have plans in place to make sure that each employee is connected with a mentor to help guide them through their professional development, offer regular lunch & learns, and give our employees chances to attend industry conferences.
Our employee's health and wellness is #1 here at PQA Testing. We offer health incentives for our full-time employees to help them reach their goals of a healthy lifestyle, including a company-wide mental health day annually. PQA Testing is always organizing events that bring all of us closer, even if virtually!
PQA respectfully acknowledges that our offices are located on treaty territories, unceded First Nations and Inuit territories, and part of Métis homelands. We honour their long history of welcoming many Nations to the beautiful Turtle Island and we actively work towards reconciliation between Métis, Inuit, and First Nation peoples and non-Indigenous people on this Land.
We contribute to proactive employment practices to promote inclusivity and diversity to those especially marginalized populations such as women, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples, and all other groups protected under the Human Rights Code.
We are committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in accordance with provincial legislation. Please let us know if you require accommodation during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Lead testing initiatives for our key clients
- Extract testing requirements from functional and business requirements
- Design, implement, and optimize test frameworks from scratch
- Conduct testing to align with client test methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, BDD, etc) and reporting solutions
- Create test status reports
- Execute ERP testing
- Provide mentorship and training for less-experienced automation resources
What you'll need
Qualifications
- Computer Science degree, Engineering degree, or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of experience in Software Testing or Quality Assurance industry
- Experience in ERT testing
- Experience in API test automation (SoapUI, Postman, etc)
- Experience with SQL
- Experience working in a client-facing, consultative capacity
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to propose practical solutions to complex problems
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
- Demonstrated experience having tested complex IT solutions
- Flexibility, self-motivation and the ability to give and receive feedback at all levels
- Adaptable and willing to work through challenges with a positive attitude
- Ability to build collaborative working relationships in a team-oriented environment
We're looking for
Core Skills
A little bit about us
PLATO
Who We Are
PLATO is a software testing and technology services company trusted by clients around the world.
In addition to providing our clients the highest quality software testing services, PLATO is creating careers in technology for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people from coast to coast to coast through our innovative train-and-employ model. Since 1997, we have been helping organizations all over the world reach their quality objectives by delivering scalable, proven, quality-centric managed services. Companies such as Apple, Suncor, TD Bank, Medavie, BCLC, LinkedIn, Boeing, and many others have gained considerable advantage from our Quality Assurance (QA), Testing, and eLearning expertise and experience.
We deliver specialized QA services to our clients with the goal of helping them increase profitability, boost customer satisfaction, manage development cycles and implement quality-centric solutions. We develop innovative approaches and solutions, designed to generate increased efficiencies, competitive advantage, and market share for our clients.
Are you interested?
Work With Us
At PQA Testing, we encourage our employees' personal career growth. We have plans in place to make sure that each employee is connected with a mentor to help guide them through their professional development, offer regular lunch & learns, and give our employees chances to attend industry conferences.
PQA respectfully acknowledges that our offices are located on treaty territories, unceded First Nations and Inuit territories, and part of Métis homelands. We honour their long history of welcoming many Nations to the beautiful Turtle Island and we actively work towards reconciliation between Métis, Inuit, and First Nation peoples and non-Indigenous people on this Land.
We contribute to proactive employment practices to promote inclusivity and diversity to those especially marginalized populations such as women, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples, and all other groups protected under the Human Rights Code.
We are committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in accordance with provincial legislation. Please let us know if you require accommodation during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.
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