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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

o Owned and managed QA activities company wide balancing resources for product releases; working and coordinating with various cross-functional teams throughout the SDLC to drive quality releases and deliver on schedule.o Strategized and built out test methodologies and best practices for simultaneous company projects.o Built and managed a team of 5-14 members including QA Leads, Analysts and Developers through recruiting, hiring, on-boarding, training and mentoring.o Oversaw the transition of a primarily manual testing operation into a more automated operation by providing strategic direction, training to convert QA Analysts into QA Developers and worked with key stockholder to enable processes and eliminate barriers to the transition.o Assist team in getting past technical challenges, procedural issues or resource constraints.o Conduct employee performance reviews and setting performance goals. o Assist in product feature reviews, bug triage, release planning and customer support efforts.

Toronto, Canada

Key Tasks include:o Manage and balance product QA resources.o Build and maintain team through recruiting, hiring, on-boarding, training and mentoring.o Conduct performance reviews.o Assist in product feature reviews, bug triage, release planning and customer support efforts.o Ensure software quality standards are followed and team remains on schedule to meet deadlines.o Assist team in getting past technical challenges, procedural issues or resource constraints.o Provide weekly status reports.

Toronto, Canada

Key Tasks include:o Develop, document and implement test methodology, procedures, processes and schedules.o Create QA test plans for product releases based on the functional designs.o Design and develop QA test cases and scripts.o Create test data, tools and environments as required to support testing.o Conduct QA tests and gather, analyze and summarize test results against plans.o Effectively communicate test results to project/product team members.o Create, log, track and close defects throughout the software development process.o Work closely with the team to verify and validate fixes and updates.o Contribute as part of cross functional team to deliver product through requirement gathering/analysis, planning, design, development and documentation as required.o Assist with interviewing new hires as well as developing and delivering training material. Mentor new hires/full time QA analysts on best practice and problems solving/troubleshooting techniques.o Assist with conducting performance reviews for co-op students at the end of work terms.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Help design and implement Maintenix Aircraft Maintenance Management software solutions for large airlines, MROs and OEMs.Key Tasks include: o Investigation of product related issues (internal or found externally by customers): troubleshooting, analysis and resolution using oracle SQL and XML messageso Assist and often lead customer requirement gathering sessions, creating solution designs, performing critical design review and testing and implementation of solutions.o Post delivery support to users of provided solutionso Generation and execution of test plans, testing procedures, factory acceptance testing and track software defects