Quality Assurance Specialist

Quality Assurance Specialist

Job Description

Our client located in Toronto, Ontario, is seeking a Quality Assurance Specialist who will help to promote a culture of Quality within the organization, providing leadership and guidance in Quality Assurance issues to Project Management, Engineering, Industry & Supply Chain and Services.

In this role you will be allocated to manage project Quality, as a Quality Assurance Manager (QAM), on low to medium complexity projects supporting all disciplines and underlying processes. The QAM represents the Quality authority ensuring that the level of quality provides value and satisfaction to customers.

Location – Toronto, Ontario

Pay rate : $ per hour. hours per week.

Contract role: 6 month contract with a possibility of extension

Model: Hybrid – 2- 3 days in the office – Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm.

Starting: ASAP

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Main Mission:

• Assure that the concerns of customers are appropriately captured, understood, and efficiently and effectively handled by the Project team.
• Cascade and/or manage the Quality Assurance
• Adjust Quality Assurance activities with a risk-driven mindset, anticipating and mitigating risks, considering the maturity of the Project team, and focusing on core Quality value-added activities.
• Guide the Project team in the definition and tailoring of the project baseline and validate the resulting
• Control the execution of the Project (in relation to the plans): evaluate achievements at key milestones and deliverables

  Key Accountabilities

  Perform compliance assessment with support for Contractual Quality Assurance Write and execute Project Quality Assurance and Software Quality Assurance Plans on low to medium complexity Support, coach, train the Project in applying processes, proactively identifying risks, and resolving Participate in and act as one of the pillars of acceptance in Project Gates/milestones review meetings and prepare Quality input and Provide visibility to the management and alert when necessary; raise a veto in case of non-compliance not properly addressed or in case of a critical event/situation generating a major risk for the Project or for the company, ensuring that action plans are implemented in a timely manner. Prepare and deliver the Quality Management Report with support to demonstrate the effectiveness of the quality management process as defined in the applicable plans and standards. Participate in Safety Case review and Safety Certification Readiness Closely monitor customer feedbacks (positive and negative) with the Customer Satisfaction Perform Quality Assurance approval for various projects artefacts as specified in the respective processes, checking that the Project deliverables comply with Customer's requirements and with the applicable regulations and standards. Support project monitoring by preparing monthly reports on project health status through quality metrics to Project Core Perform engineering artefacts QA Record and analyze Quality findings to identify trends or issues to Conduct Root Cause Analyses with support as required in conjunction with the other discipline groups (engineering, Safety, Participate in Lesson Learned and Risk Review meetings, ensure process adherence and evidence for compliance is Support Customer audits and perform internal In-Process audits (if required by contract); Monitor resolution of corrective action

  Requirements

  Minimum S Computer Science/Electrical/Mechanical/Computer Engineering or 3 to 5 years of hands-on experience in Engineering System/Software development or Quality Assurance Specialist or Manager in a technology or manufacturing setting Must have a solid understanding of general QA practices and procedures, Quality Management Ability to conduct investigations and Root Cause Analysis across multiple disciplines (System, Software, Hardware, Also required are excellent problem solving, written, verbal and communication Preferred Qualifications Hands-on Engineering System/Software development or Quality Assurance in complex System environment with certification constraints (Transportation, Aerospace, Medical Devices, Nuclear, Cybersecurity) Knowledge of Transportation domain / CBTC system is an ASQ Certification (CQE, Basic Knowledge of Industry Standards: CENELEC/AREMA/IEEE ISO Project Lifecycle and Product Process Improvement Training or background (Six Sigma, DMAIC,

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  We are an equal opportunity Employer.