Senior QA Analyst, Manual

Location: Montreal, QC, Hybrid, 2 days on-site per week
Language: Strong written and spoken English required; bilingual English/French is an asset
Duration: Contract until the end of March, 35 hours per week / 7 hours per day

About the Opportunity
We’re looking for a Senior QA Analyst to join a collaborative technology team supporting a large-scale retail solution. This is a hands-on manual testing role focused on helping a fast-moving project successfully reach the finish line, with exposure to front-end web applications, integrations, APIs, and data validation.

You’ll join an established team of QA professionals where knowledge sharing and collaboration are central to how work gets done. With a QA Lead providing the overall testing structure and strategy, you’ll have the autonomy to take ownership of assigned work, execute efficiently, and contribute to high-quality releases within an Agile environment.

What’s In It for You
You’ll work alongside an experienced QA team with an established onboarding process, shared learning resources, and support as you ramp up on the application. This is an opportunity to deepen your experience with complex retail functionality and end-to-end integrations while working on a collaborative team that values shared knowledge and accountability.

Your Responsibilities
• You’ll execute manual functional, regression, integration, system, end-to-end, smoke, exploratory, API, and data validation testing.
• You’ll create and maintain manual test scripts and regression coverage in qTest.
• You’ll manage assigned Jira tickets, keeping statuses, comments, blockers, and testing progress current.
• You’ll prepare test data, validate results, capture test evidence, and raise clear defects when acceptance criteria are not met.
• You’ll collaborate closely with QA colleagues and development teams to troubleshoot issues and maintain coverage across multiple retail modules.
• You’ll participate in Agile ceremonies and communicate quality risks, defect status, and release readiness.

Skills and Qualifications
• 5+ years of QA or software testing experience, with strong hands-on manual testing expertise.
• Extensive experience creating and maintaining test scripts in qTest.
• Advanced Jira experience within an Agile delivery environment.
• Experience with API testing using Postman and database validation using SQL.
• Strong experience with integration and end-to-end testing across web-based applications.
• Retail application testing experience is an asset.
• Strong collaboration, communication, documentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to execute autonomously in a fast-paced environment.

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