Quality Control Analyst - Intermediate

For over 75 years, Medavie Blue Cross has been a leading health and wellness partner for individuals, employers and governments across Canada. As a not-for-profit organization, we proudly invest in communities to help address some of Canada’s most pressing health care challenges. We are one of Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures, one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Life & Health Insurer of the Year for 2021 and an Imagine Canada Caring Company. 
 
Our 2,400 professionals work across six provinces, united by our shared values of being caring, accountable, responsible, innovative and community-minded. We’re committed to ensuring our employees thrive in our award-winning, collaborative culture focused on ensuring health, wellness, and personal and professional growth through a variety of programs and support across our organization.
 
Together with Medavie Health Services, we are part of Medavie — a national health solutions partner with over 8,250 employees. Our mission is to improve the wellbeing of Canadians.

As a Quality Assurance Tester, you will work with software developers, business analyst and test lead to understand and clarify requirements, design manual test scenarios, execute manual test cases, document test findings, and follow issues until they are resolved.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Analyze requirements
• Provide estimates of the manual testing effort
• Identify initial test scenarios
• Review test scenarios with project stakeholders
• Revise test scenarios based on input from project stakeholders
• Assess product risk and prioritize the test cases accordingly
• Define smoke tests for each build
• Plan and define regression suite of tests
• Identify candidates for test automation
• Add detailed steps and test data requirements to defined test cases
• Identify and set up any necessary test data
• Execute smoke tests for each build
• Assess the stability of builds based on smoke test results
• Execute system test cases and record results
• Communicate test results to the Test Lead
• Identify and record descriptive defects, providing additional detail to facilitate problem resolution as needed
• Validate defect fixes as they are provided

Required Qualifications:  

• University degree or college diploma in Computer Science or similar program preferred.
• Two + years of experience manual testing software applications on web-based, desktop, and mobile devices.
• Knowledge of software development life-cycle methodologies
• General understanding on ALM test management tool, JIRA
• Working knowledge of quality assurance methods such as: unit, integration, regression testing

Communication Skills: Good verbal and written communication skills and delivers information clearly and confidently. Demonstrates the ability to tailor information and delivery to suit the nature of the material, audience and situation

Execution and Organization Skills: Ability to organize work and information in a well thought out manner to deliver on specific tasks and reporting deadlines. Exhibits high levels of energy and perseverance in the pursuit of established goals.

Knowledge: Proactively uses knowledge to improve process and procedures and acts to make amendments to the Quality assurance process.

Team Work: Understanding of how the job contributes to the overall work unit and takes the initiative to help with problem situations. Ability to ask and receive feedback and enjoys working with people both as part of a team and one-on-one

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