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Job Type:Employee
Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments):
18
Job Family:Quality Assurance
# of Open Positions:1
Faculty/Service - Department:Research & Pipeline
Campus:Main Campus
Union Affiliation:UOITP
Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):2026/10/15
Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):2026/10/26
Hours per week:35
Salary Grade:UOITP Grade 10
Salary Range:$82 450,00 - $102 514,00
Position Purpose:The Quality Assurance Analyst ensures quality throughout the software development process while working on projects to deliver new computer application and modifications existing computer applications. The incumbent reviews project deliverables, design documents, and programming specification to verify quality standards. This role contributes to the formulation and continuous improvement of software quality standards, methods, and tools for all software development and maintenance projects carried out within the department. For the Advancement CRM project, the role supports quality assurance activities related to CRM functionality, integration, data migration, security, and business processes.
In this role, your responsibilities will include:- Testing: Prepares specific business test cases. Reviews, and updates, develops and executes test cases and test scripts, including those related to CRM functionality, integrations, regression, data migration and user acceptance testing, to fully assess if the solution meets the requirements presented according to existing test plans. Records results. Ensures test cases sufficiently cover all areas of business need and application functionality.
- Development: Ensures quality throughout the software development process; proper quality checkpoints. Has authority to reject documents that do not meet standards. Develops complete test strategies for new software products and confirm testing before production.
- Verification: Organizes activities designed to verify system requirements, system design and system code, including security roles and permissions, business process workflows and integrations. Ensures the test plan will validate the application requirements are met. Develops strategies for client acceptance.
- Logging: Finds, reproduces, isolates, logs, and reports defects as needed including defects related to integrations, data conversions and business process execution. Works closely with the development team(s) during the test design and test execution phases. Plans, designs, develops, implements and maintains processes for manual testing. Ensures that problems are logged quickly and accurately, and that "fixed" problems are verified and closed.
- Project Management: In partnership with a project manager or senior programmer takes full responsibility for software testing activities and coordinates testing with technical and business stakeholders and to deliver new applications and modifications to existing applications. Plans project time requirements, resources requirements, and risk analysis.
- Risk Analysis: Evaluates risks, in the preparation of the test plan and as the test execution progresses. Recommends risk assessment and confirms launch readiness for projects with substantial visibility or impact.
- Implementation: Conducts post-implementation reviews and to evaluate the software development process and make recommendation for improvement.
- Documentation: Produces all documentation of the testing process, validation of software, strategies and best practices. Records defects and reviews them with the project manager, and will contribute a defect analysis to the project closeout document.
- Production Control: Periodically monitor all production jobs on an on-call basis after hours; in case of production failures identify the nature of the failure, analyze the impact of the failed processes, initiate recovery procedure, restore files and resubmit jobs. Troubleshoot production errors and coordinate with clients, application managers and vendors when required. Ensure formal documentation of production and change control processes is followed.
- Data Security: Responsible for ensuring confidentiality, security and accessibility of institutional data. The incumbent complies with and promotes any controls put in place to protect and secure data and exhibits due diligence in following the established information security and privacy policies as well as related standards.
What you will bring:- University degree in computer science or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a quality assurance role involving software testing.
- Bilingualism - French and English (spoken and written).
- ISTQB or equivalent QA certification is an asset.
- Familiarity with advancement/fundraising processes is an asset.
- Experience testing Salesforce implementations from requirements through deployment.
- Experience testing complex Salesforce business processes that span multiple user roles and integrate with external systems.
- Experience testing Salesforce security, including roles, profiles, and permission sets.
- Experience creating and executing functional, regression, integration, data migration, API, and performance tests.
- Experience developing and maintaining automated UI tests using tools such as Playwright.
- Experience with API testing tools such as Postman or Bruno.
- Experience using Jira and Xray (or equivalent) for test management, defect tracking, traceability, execution, and reporting.
- Experience working with developers, business analysts, Salesforce administrators, and business stakeholders in an Agile or project delivery environment.
- Strong test planning and test case design/documentation skills.
- Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter or Artillery.
- Experience testing data migration/data quality in a CRM handling sensitive donor or financial data.
- Experience testing Education Cloud.
- Ability to communicate testing outcomes to non-technical stakeholders.
*This position may be subject to a telework agreement.
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Key Competencies at uOttawa:Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:
Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.
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