Job Description

Do you want to be part of our innovative and entrepreneurial team?
Do you thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and enjoy working in a team atmosphere? Are you an “outside the box” thinker who strives to implement continuous improvements? Do you take a strategic approach to your work? Do you enjoy in a fast-paced culture where your opinions are valued and respected? Do you enjoy building partnerships to solve mutually beneficial challenges?
Mitacs is a national not-for-profit that helps industry and non-profit partners solve strategic challenges by leveraging Canada’s world-class post-secondary talent and a global network of industry, academic, and government partnerships. Through these collaborations, Mitacs helps business and community partners succeed, improves students’ on-the-job skills development, and strengthens Canada’s world-class innovation ecosystem. At Mitacs, we strive to develop the next generation of innovators with vital research and business skills. In partnership with domestic and international companies, governments and academia, we support a new economy using Canada’s most valuable resource – its people.
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Intermediate QA Analyst Responsibilities:
As a member of the QA team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with other talented members of our team to support, maintain and ensure quality for a complex software ecosystem. You will create test plans, write manual test cases, and execute manual tests. In partnership with our current QA, you will develop our automated test suit. You will have the opportunity to work on a variety of tasks and develop your skills in many ways.
Role Responsibilities

• Perform various types of QA software testing including, but not limited to, manual functional web usability, system integration, regression, cross browser compatibility, back-end database validation application testing.
• Find and document software defects in JIRA including concise and detailed steps for of issues found and assist with prioritization and resolution.
• Work collaboratively with project team to communicate testing progress and status, prioritize and track defects to closure, discuss project updates and issues to ensure appropriate follow through to resolution.
• Develop detailed test cases, ensure that tests cover all features of the system (happy path and edge cases), and ensure the complete requirement coverage.
• Work with the developers/BA’s to identify and prepare test data needed for the test execution.
• Review and analyze functional requirements to ensure that requirements are testable.
• Help develop automated testing framework to support CI\CD pipelines.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• A technical college or university credential in Computer Science, Information Technology or another related area.
• Min 5 year prior experience in a Quality Assurance role using Agile.
• Experience working in a team based environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Attention to detail and analytical thinking.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, etc.).
• Good organizational and time management skills with an ability to complete multiple concurrent assignments.
• Experience in Functional testing, System testing, User Acceptance testing and Exploratory testing.
• Intermediate knowledge and experience in software testing processes, quality controls, methodologies, and standards.
• Ability to adapt to new technologies / tools.
• Knowledge of current industry trends.
• Knowledge and experience in agile project methodologies, such as scrum.
• Knowledge of documentation/defect tracking tools such as JIRA, Confluence.
• Basic knowledge of SQL queries and automation tools.
• Use QA software tools for defect management, regression, or automation testing.
• Use defined/new methodologies and software to test new technologies/system functionality of moderate to difficult complexity to ensure business acceptance, user acceptance & system integration.
• Collaborate with other areas within IT to identify and improve testing tools and approaches.

Nice To Have

• Industry related Professional Certification in Software Quality.
• Hands on experience with Playwright, Cypress, Puppeteer or Selenium.
• API testing using Postman, Swagger, Soap UI or similar tool.
• Dynamics 365 experience is an asset.

Mitacs has a COVID-19 policy in place that requires all employees to be fully vaccinated to protect our team and our stakeholders, subject to any accommodations required under applicable human rights legislation. Information about getting vaccinated can be found here.
We believe a diverse workforce comprised of individuals with different ideas, strengths, interests and backgrounds which is crucial to our success. We encourage candidates to connect with us and share ways how we may accommodate your needs during the recruitment process.