Senior Consultant | Test Lead
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PLATO is Canada's only Indigenous-led, Indigenous staffed software testing services firm. We insist on working with quality people who share our passion for quality testing, and have built a team of people who also believe quality is the most important deliverable. Our team of software testing specialists believe that better software leads to a better world.
We are committed to building strong communities - PLATO trains and employs members of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit communities across the country and strives to build a network of 1000 Indigenous software testers across Canada. PLATO has offices on or near Indigenous communities across Canada, in Fredericton, Miramichi, Sault Ste Marie, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Victoria.
Our company is growing rapidly, and so is our office in Calgary! We are looking to hire a Test Lead with SAP/ERP experience to help us do just that.
Preference will be given to Indigenous applicants and people with experience working with candidates of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit backgrounds.
- Review applications for testing maturity - requirements coverage, testing artifacts, etc.
- Prioritize and provide recommendations for testing needs
- Create project test plans and strategy
- Provide work estimates and QA-specific resource requirements
- Provide guidance and best practices for testing, following our client's standards and processes
- Review requirements for testability, ambiguity, and redundancy
- Ensure traceability matrices are available
- Communicate the progress and status of testing
- Identify testing risks and provide risk mitigation plans
- Coordinate the testing efforts for projects that involve multiple applications or portfolios
- Identify QA resources needed for projects
- Provide testing metrics and KPIs
- Keep stakeholders informed of the progress and status with appropriate dashboards and reports
- Escalate QA issues to the project manager
- 7+ years in QA and 3+ years of Test Lead experience is mandatory
- SAP/ERP experience is a major requirement
- Exceptional communication skills and interpersonal abilities
- Agile experience is preferred
- Senior-level experience with test planning and strategies
- Experience in test automation is a nice-to-have
- Solid understanding of API testing
- General knowledge of performance testing
- Good understanding of SQL (PL-SQL, MS SQL Stored Procedures)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work dynamically across multiple projects
At PLATO, we encourage our employees' personal career growth. We have plans in place to make sure that each employee is connected with a people manager to help guide them through their professional development, offer e-learning classes, and give our employees the opportunity to pursue software certifications for cutting-edge technologies.
PLATO respectfully acknowledges that our offices are located on treaty territories, unceded First Nations and Inuit territories, and part of Métis homelands. We honour their long history of welcoming many Nations to the beautiful Turtle Island and we actively work towards reconciliation between Métis, Inuit, and First Nation peoples and non-Indigenous people on this Land.
We contribute to proactive employment practices to promote inclusivity and diversity to those especially marginalized populations such as women, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples, and all other groups protected under the Human Rights Code.
We are committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in accordance with provincial legislation. Please let us know if you require accommodation during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.
Posting expiry date: December 11, 2022
JOB ID: 22T021
