Quality Assurance Analyst - Ottawa, Canada - University of Ottawa

University of Ottawa

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Ottawa, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Because at uOttawa, you belong

About Information Technology
Information Technology is a dynamic and collaborative environment.

We are focused on prioritizing and optimizing technological investments that facilitate the best student experience, as well as the activities of faculty, researchers and staff.

Our greatest strength are the people working with us. People like you, professionals eager to flex their intellectual muscle and achieve new heights in their career.

Working here gives you access to a great IT environment, rich with a diverse range of platforms, products, and services.

This is a place where innovative ideas are welcome.

In a nutshell:
working here is challenging and rewarding. It'll bring out the best of you. We want people that have the drive to advance IT in higher education.

We have the technologies to keep your inner fires burning, and benefits that can help you sustain a better lifestyle.

And all this minutes away from gyms, the Byward Market, downtown, and the Rideau Canal at lunch time for runners and skaters.

Position Purpose

This role contributes to the formulation and continuous improvement of software quality standards, methods, and tools for all software development and maintenance projects carried out within the department.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

Development: Ensures quality throughout the software development process; proper quality checkpoints. Has authority to reject documents that do not meet standards. Develops complete test strategies for new software products and confirm testing before production.

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Logging: Finds, reproduces, isolates, logs, and reports defects as needed. Works closely with the development team(s) during the test design and test execution phases. Plans, designs, develops, implements and maintains processes for manual testing. Ensures that problems are logged quickly and accurately, and that "fixed" problems are verified and closed.
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Implementation: Conducts post-implementation reviews to evaluate the software development process and make recommendation for improvement.
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Documentation: Produces all documentation of the testing process, validation of software, strategies, and best practices. Records defects and reviews them with the project manager, and will contribute a defect analysis to the project closeout document.

What you will bring:

University degree in computer science or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum 5 years of experience in a quality assurance role involving software testing.
Strong understanding of database systems and the use of technology to satisfy business needs.
Experience writing manual test plans, test cases and reporting test results independently.
High level of initiative, decisiveness and business acumen.
Organizational skills to prioritize work and meet multiple strict deadlines.
Ability to communicate technical concepts in a nontechnical manner.
Knowledge of programming and operating system principles.
Experience working with Git and conducting codereviews using GitLab or similar tool.
Experience working in an agile environment.
Experience working in Unix terminal and knowledge of core commands, familiar in shell scripting.
Experience working with testing framework such as: Cypress, Selenium, or PhpUnit.
Experience with Jmeter, WAPT or similar load testing tools.
Experience working with Drupal as a web content management system (an asset).