Quality Assurance Analyst

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“Don’t leave testingto the developers, join APS today!”

What you’re passionate about

You are passionate about application quality and testing. You get that you must first understand business requirements to develop meaningful test cases, and so you ask questions. You look for ways to continuously improve the products being developed so they better meet business needs. You enjoy being part of a collaborative team and engaging with people to deliver what is important. You love the challenge of testing and building that comprehensive set of conditions to prove accuracy or find defects. You thrive in making the test and deployment process easier, more repeatable, and part of continuous process improvement.

A typical day for the Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

• Lead and participate in the planning and maintenance of manual, automated and regression test suites.
• Create acceptance criteria, perform defect management, prepare test estimations, strategies, plans and schedules.
• Enhance testing disciplines such as regression testing, test automation, usability testing, exploratory and cross-browser testing.
• Identify test cases and test data, create and execute test scripts and record results.
• Develop IT quality assurance standards, guidelines, practices and principles.
• Work within an agile environment with a focus on high-quality, peer-reviewed output.
• Collaborate with IT team during design reviews.
• Review change requests for completion, and the adherence of quality assurance practices.
• Champion quality assurance and quality control processes within the organization.

What you bring

• University degree or diploma, with 8+ years of related technical experience.
• CSTE/CSQA certification would be considered an asset.
• Proven track record analyzing, planning, creating and executing test plans, test cases and conducting test case review and defect escape analysis, preferably having prior experience with web applications.
• Ability to develop and perform manual test execution.
• Experience conducting internal audits to measure and assure adherence to established quality assurance standards for software testing.
• The ability to analyze, plan, interpret and provide essential metrics to ensure quality and accuracy.
• Automation experience is considered an asset.
• Exceptional communication skills.

Why choose APS

APS is made up of hardworking, respectful and talented people who understand and invite diversity to the workplace. We take pride in holding ourselves accountable and continuing to meet or exceed service levels for plan members, pensioners and employers. We ensure they receive quality services because they—along with our people—are the reason we endure and succeed.

And it sure feels good helping hard working Albertans receive their well-deserved pensions.

What APS has to offer

• Defined benefit pension plan
• Flexible work arrangements that make sense to you: work from home, compressed work weeks and more
• Community-minded workplace with a friendly team environment
• Vacation starting at 15 days per year, 13 statutory holidays, personal days, plus office closure between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Competitive benefit package featuring extended health and dental benefits and a 100% employer-paid flexible spending account
• In-house training programs, extensive career development and coaching program, access to LinkedIn Learning tracks
• Discount programs through various partner agencies

Send us your details

If you are interested in this position, please submit your resume to Human Resources at recruitment@apsc.ca. Each submission needs to clearly indicate the competition number of the position you are applying for.