Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

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Job Title

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Client Company / Dept. Name

University of Manitoba

Address

200 137 Innovation Drive

Winnipeg, Manitoba

R3T 6B6 Canada

City Name

State Name

FL-Florida

Zip Code

If others (Address)

Duration of the project

Project Start Date : February 10, 2025

December 10, 2025

No. of Openings

No. of Maximum Submissions

Job Description

Preparing the test strategy, test plan and associated presentation materials

Preparing and updating templates for test cases and test scripts

Review existing test cases and test scripts and providing feedback

Work closely with the project team to ensure test cases and test scripts are written as required

Communicate regularly with testers to review progress, escalating issues to the Project Manager

Preparing and updating defect and issue reports

Preparing and updating software quality metrics reports

Contributing to project weekly status reports

Responsible for the final software quality report

Creating a test calendar and keeping it updated

Recommendations for User Acceptance Testing

Weekly status report detailing their tasks completed during the week, tasks scheduled for the upcoming week, estimated effort to complete; backlog items

Weekly timesheet submission

Leading / facilitating workshops with project teams and stakeholders, including senior executives

Leading stakeholder communications, managing stakeholder expectations

Skill set info

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

Five years of experience in software testing

10 years of experience and responsibility for all aspects of Quality Assurance including requirements gathering, documentation, mapping, UAT Testing, & Test Scripting.

• Demonstrated clear understanding and knowledge of QM Concepts, Methodologies and Testing Techniques;

Extensive hands-on experience executing Test Scripts, and documenting outcomes

Experience documenting test strategies, test plans and test cases, tracing test cases to requirements

Expertise with requirements gathering, documentation, mapping, UAT Testing, & Test Scripting

Experience implementing test automation, and performance testing

Clear understanding and knowledge of QM Concepts, Methodologies and Testing Techniques

Ability to translate User stories into functional and non-functional requirements and test artifacts

Experience in the public sector or higher education sector is required.

Prior experience working on HRIS projects.

With complex projects with multiple concurrent streams of work.

With Prince2 Project Management.

Education

An undergraduate degree in Business Management, Engineering, Computer Science or other

A college diploma with a specialization in Business Analysis or Project Management;

Certifications (if required)

A certification in business analysis (ex : ECBATM, CCBATM or CBAPTM or PMI-PBA ) or

certification in project management (ex. PMP , PRINCE2TM); and

A certification in Quality Management from a recognized institution.

Documentation Required for submission

Work Hours

The normal business hours for the Senior Quality Assurance Analyst role are 8 : 30am to 4 : 30pm central time, Monday to Friday, with a one-hour lunch, for a total of 7 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Any proposed Resources must be prepared to be available during these hours exclusively.

Work authorization required

US Citizen Only

Relocation is accepted

Remote work

Additional Notes if any

It is Canadian opportunity preferable want Canadian personnel with good government experience. Please ignore the term US Citizen. Required candidates with good government experience in higher education environment (post-secondary institutions within Canada)