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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Empowering QA engineers by providing mentorship and guidance to support their growth- Supporting product teams in their transformation from Quality Assurance to the Quality Assistance model- Responsible for gathering and visualizing meaningful metrics about product area quality and sharing this with the teams and other stakeholders in order to get a sense where we are and where we should be improving- Making sure the product area teams are paying attention also to non-functional testing such as security, performance/load/stress, usability testing- Communicating testing status about their product area to interested stakeholders- Collaborating with Principal QA Engineers on the company-wide test strategy adoption- Facilitating cross-team testing- Balancing multiple goals across tech/product/strategy/other teams and concerns- Preparing test assignments for new QA hires and participates in hiring process- Supporting project managers as a QA lead for cross-team projects with test planning and coordination- Anticipating problems at the product level and suggests ways to avoid them- Driving cross-team QA roadmap topics, aligning engineers to a wider technical strategy and goals- Looking for ways to reduce distractions, interruptions, and unplanned work for themselves and other engineers- Overseeing that the teams within the product area take security seriously by using static analysis tools, vulnerability scanners and threat modeling.- Promoting engineering culture

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Advocate and apply modern testing principles in a team and across the organization;- Report on and work very closely with dev teams and project management to drive defects to closure;- Identify areas for automation, collect test data requirements, propose new test metrics and techniques to maximize testing efficiency and scalability;- Develop test requirements and specifications for functional, acceptance, integration, regression, system, stress/performance testing;- Design and develop automated testing solutions that adhere to proper testing methodology, design, and coding standards;- Collaborate closely with software engineers and the project team to ensure the deliverables meet quality requirements and test coverage;- Build, automate, and maintain QA environments;

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

- Established and evolve formal QA processes from the scratch, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted practices & test techniques;- Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying best practices and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met or exceeded;- Participate in technology leadership meetings to help set company-wide QA objectives and processes;- Act as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources;- Foster Agile QA testing execution and support Kanban delivery methodology;- Assess risks early in the production pipeline and deliver reports to product and development team;- Develop test automation frameworks using industry standard tools and technologies;- Assist with the maintenance and the development of the current regression test suite;- Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated);- Deliver highly detailed reproduction steps to developers for defects;- Work closely with the development group to resolve defects and escalate issues to management when necessary;- Prioritizing and tracking defects and issues correctly and recommend corrective action where required;- Collaborate with product team during the software development life cycle to ensure business and technical requirements have been fulfilled;- Contribute recommendations and assessments to ongoing project reviews;- Support in preparing end-user training materials.

Mississauga, Ontario

- Managing and assigning projects/tasks to QA resources.- Ensuring defined software quality assurance procedures are being followed.- Coordinating with business analysts, leads and technical experts to understand business requirements, review technical designs, and requesting additional information to complete required deliverables.- Designing automation framework and utilizing appropriate testing tools.- Developing, maintaining, and executing manual and automated functional test cases based on business process documents and change requests.- Providing testing estimates.- Analyzing test results to identify problem areas and to ensure adequate coverage.- Clearly communicating test results and errors/issues to project team(s).- Identifying, investigating, reporting, and tracking defects to closure.- Assisting in troubleshooting reported problems.

Toronto, Canada Area

- Worked on escalated and high severity incidents;- Provided in-depth root cause analysis of critical issues;- Configured setup to meet compliance and customer expectations;- Supported team members in the achievement of team goals;- Thoroughly tested new and amended solutions;- Helped R&D in isolating and triaging software defects;- Contributed to the support knowledge base.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Leveraged strong analytical and problem solving skills to efficiently resolve incidents• Provided clients with regular and timely incident updates• Maintained the highest level of client satisfaction• Reproduced and documented software defects• Monitored, deployed and maintained client production environment• Assisted with different operational projects such as: - Technical programming and scripting (T-SQL, XML, C#) - Enhanced the customer support experience - Optimized internal processes and procedures

Greater New York City Area

Researched, analyzed, designed, executed and maintained testing solutions for financial application user interface and database.Duties:- Designed and developed test strategy and test plan;- Gathered and analyzed feature requirements and specifications;- Created and performed various types of test cases and scenarios;- Ran meetings, reported and analyzed defects;- Recommended solutions and enhancements to developers and business analysts;- Wrote test scenarios for automation scripts;- Participated in debugging and developing of automated test cases;- Created and executed both load and functional tests for web services;- Led and managed team of testers;- Transferred knowledge and supported new team members;- Managed multiple projects.

Greater New York City Area

Black box testing of financial application user interface and functionality on desktop and mobile devices.Duties:- Participated in requirements gathering meetings;- Created test cases for functional testing;- Executed smoke, exploratory and regression tests;- Tested interface and the integration of the database;- Reported defects and suggested improvements to developers; - Performed testing in iOs, android, windows and blackberry platforms.