QA Specialist

Position Summary

As a QA Specialist, you bring a strong foundation in both functional and automated quality assurance practices. You collaborate closely with development teams to ensure product success - reviewing business requirements, technical designs, user stories, and acceptance criteria to craft effective end-to-end testing strategies. Leveraging your ability to dive into the code base, you pair a QA mindset with technical insight, understanding not only what the product should do but why the underlying code behaves as it does. You balance speed with quality, are excited to try new approaches, and thrive in a fast-paced team environment.

Competencies Critical for Success

A genuine dedication to the implementation of high-quality products

Strong proficiency in automation, functional, and integration testing, complemented by hands-on experience with performance and load testing

A passion for learning and teamwork

Primary Responsibilities

Working with your development team to create and maintain a quality product

Reviewing and analyzing requirements to design a comprehensive test framework that supports both automation and functional testing, including the creation of detailed test plans and test cases

Implementing, running, maintaining, and reporting on automation testing, including reviewing the behavior and quality of other team members' automation code

Speaking into the quality needs of the product based on knowledge and experience

Setting up testing environments to successfully execute simple to complex tests

Testing against requirements and acceptance criteria through scripted, regression, and exploratory testing to ensure the solution meets business needs

Reporting and tracking high quality bugs using Jira

Advocating for quality best practices within your development team and aligning with QA Specialists from other teams to support departmental quality improvement efforts

Working to create supporting QA documentation related to products, processes, and testing practices

Validating front-end, API, and data flows as part of a full stack quality approach

Assisting with upskilling new or existing team members to drive better knowledge within the team

Additional Duties and Expectations

Promote Accuro's "Blue Culture" framework to foster a collaborative, positive and efficient workplace

Contribute to the organization's positive image both internally and externally

Perform other duties consistent with the position, as reasonably directed by your manager

Qualifications, Education and Experience Requirements

Role Requirements

A degree or diploma in Engineering, Computer Science, Software Development, or a related field

3+ years of total experience in software quality assurance, software development, or a combination of both

ISTQB Software Tester Certification Foundation Level

Strong understanding of software testing principles (manual and automated)

Proficiency in testing both front-end and back-end components

Knowledge of UI testing frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)

Experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman, REST Assured)

Understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL) and ability to validate data integrity

Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)

Ability to write and maintain test scripts in languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Java

Also can create and maintain Test Cases in a centralized test case management tool such as AIO Tests

Experience in testing across desktop, web and mobile applications

Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Extra considerations for Candidate with:

Previous experience in high data security/privacy environments

Experience with Atlassian products; Jira and Confluence an asset

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

Familiarity with performance & load testing tools (e.g., JMeter) is a plus

Able to analyze and interpret existing codebases to identify opportunities for implementing effective test automation

Experience with Data Integrity & Security testing.

Product Knowledge in any of QHR's main products

Experience in design, development and implementation of a Quality Assurance Strategy

Compensation and Logistics

Base salary, variable bonus established at the corporate level, competitive benefits package

Hiring Range: $70,000 - $80,000 annual

Final pay for this position may depend on candidate knowledge, skills, experience and location

Full time, permanent

No travel required

Accuro is a dynamic, high-growth Canadian technology company and division of Loblaw Companies Limited. Our mission is to unite Canadian Healthcare, connecting Providers and their Patients to information and each other.