Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

 Job Location:
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Company:
Shaw Communications Inc.
Application Closing Date:
Thu, 09/30/2010
Contact Info:
n/a

Shaw Communications Inc. is a family-oriented, Canadian owned business with over 10,500 employees across the country. Shaw is the largest communications company in Canada providing 3.4 million customers with top quality cable TV, Internet, digital phone and direct-to-home satellite services. At Shaw, we are People Powered. We are committed to delivering an exceptional customer experience through our team of outstanding people. We are always on the lookout for innovative, outgoing and motivated individuals to join our team. We will provide you with the training you need to succeed and the development opportunities you need to grow. Approximately 2,000 people across Shaw are promoted or move internally each year. We are all about community, appreciation, career development and reward.

We have an an exciting opportunity for an IT Senior Quality Assurance Analyst in our Calgary office. We are seeking an innovative thinker who is positive, proactive and readily embraces change. The successful candidate will be accountable for learning the quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) methodology, working with business analysts, developers and project managers to ensure quality products are delivered to the business. You must have a desire/willingness to explore, troubleshoot and learn new skills/concepts/tools and be a self-starter.

Accountabilities:

• Lead the QA effort on various projects and initiatives
• Develop and implement test plans, test cases and test scripts (both manual and automated) to ensure software products meet the organization’s standards and end user requirements
• Provide training, coaching and mentoring to QA team members on QA methodologies and processes
• Develop and maintain testing environments and coordinate software releases
• Facilitate meetings and prepare and deliver presentations
• Assist with the development of QA Processes for new technology in the Shaw IT Environment
• Be accountable for Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance of QA Processes
• Ensure evolving industry best practices are incorporated into test planning and implementation
• Apply ingenuity and knowledge of best practices in software programming to create fault-tolerant, highly reliable test architectures, scripts, test suites and processes
• Ensure the appropriate use of test automation and testing tools
• Various other duties as required

Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years experience in a software development environment including:
• 4+ years experience in software quality assurance
• 1+ years proven ability to lead a team
• 1+ year test automation experience
• Hands-on, in depth knowledge of software quality assurance/testing methodologies, practices and related standards (IEEE, CMMI)
• Experience with strategic and business planning
• Proven analytical and problem solving abilities
• Programming experience with one or more of the following languages: C#, Java.
• Demonstrated ability to specify and develop custom automated and non-automated test harnesses
• Demonstrated business analysis ability including the ability to communicate effectively with end users
• Experience leveraging test automation for non-GUI based verifications and system manipulation
• Experience with open source test tools and utilities
• Experience with Oracle and/or MSSQL Server database environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desirable Skill, Experience and Qualifications:

• Experience with Agile an asset
• Experience with Web Service Testing an asset
• Experience with load and performance test tools and methodologies an asset
• Experience with at least one commercial test automation system
• Knowledge of web application security and penetration test tools/techniques an asset
• Project Management experience an asset

At Shaw, we genuinely care about our people and we want to set you up for success with plenty of opportunities for career advancement both locally & nationally.

Our employees enjoy a competitive salary, a premier benefits package that includes extensive health & dental coverage, stock options, Employee Share Purchase Plan, employer-paid pension plan, Shaw products & services discount, social events and much more!

If you value a workplace that promotes accountability, exemplifies loyalty and never compromises integrity, then start your career with us. For further information about our benefits, company culture and career opportunities please visit www.shaw.ca/careers.

All interested applicants are invited to apply at online at www.shaw.ca/careers; all internal applicants are invited to apply online via Shaw Central.

We thank all interested applicants; however, only qualified candidates will be contacted.

This position requires the successful completion of a criminal and credit background check.

Shaw Communications, through its third party vendor, collects and stores information applicable to the candidate profile you create when you submit the information asked for below. The use and disclosure of the collected information is for the sole purpose of job search and placement activities for Shaw Communications. The information is subject to Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. The information will be retained and when disposed of, it is done so in a secure manner. Your profile will become inactive and moved to the archive if you do not access your profile for a period of 1 yea

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