Sunwing Travel Group Hiring for Quality Assurance Analyst at Toronto, ON Full Time

Are you searching for a fun, passionate, travel loving team? –Sunwing has the EPIC work culture you have been searching for. We are currently looking for a Quality Assurance Analyst to join us in making vacation dreams come true. As the Quality Assurance Analyst you will ensure the highest level of quality for software products and solutions including supporting System Integration Testing, Performance Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and are involved in pre and postproduction activities and other deliverables. The Quality Assurance Analyst may also be responsible for project management as needed to ensure the quality of changes going into the production environment. The position reports to the Quality Assurance Manager and will be located in Toronto, ON. Apply now and have your career soar to new heights – under out wing!

Work Perks:
Remote and/or Hybrid Work Opportunities

Great travel perks!

Goodlife Corporate Discount

Comprehensive benefits package

RRSP Matching Program

Growth opportunities

Free Parking

Open concept, collaborative workspace

Fresh Café with delicious snacks and meals at a subsidized price!

Opportunity to give back through our social responsibility initiatives

See for yourself! @sunwinglife

What You’ll Do:
Provides QA effort estimates for project testing requirements to manager for approval

Works collaboratively with BAs, product owners and developers to ensure the understanding of the overall intent of project

Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.

Develop, document, and maintain functional test cases and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation, harness scripts and automated scripts.

Comply with company’s QA standards; provide daily test execution progress and technical reports on testing when required.

Execute and evaluate manual or automated test cases and report test results

Acts as a bridge between BAs and programmers, while keeping the end user’s experience in mind during all phases of the project.

Communicate defects and issues in a concise, timely and professional manner. Assist development with reproducing defects under investigations.

Work collaboratively among different teams to develop and improve QA processes

Being Pro-active and a collaborative team player with a track record for meeting tight deadlines and ability to work in a fast pace environment

Ensures that all aspects of the system are appropriately tested by utilizing testing scenarios of varying complexity

Conducts API testing to confirm functionality, reliability, performance and security of all interfaces involved in project

Prioritizes identified issues with developers and BAs to ensure issues are addressed efficiently

Conducts regression testing at each phase of pre-production to continually identify potential issues

Partners with BA and product owner to review final remaining minor issues prior to releasing changes in to the production environment.

Conducts performance testing after all changes to the application to ensure minimal impact to the user experience at various levels of simultaneous users.

Conducts Smoke testing post release to identify any remaining issues impacting user experience

Conducts periodic exploratory testing to stress test the systems and identify opportunities for future improvement.

Partners with product owner to ensure that all elements of the application are functioning from the end user’s perspective

Creating end to end UAT test plan.

Collaborates with Developers and BAs to ensure all identified issues are fully addressed in a timely manner.

Collaborate with IT Dept, Business executives and Project Managers to Spreadhead UAT efforts

Create, develop and keep track of standardized UAT documentation.

Track and report status on UAT deliverables and any issues discovered to QA Manager

Monitor, measure, track, communicate and manage defective test results until resolved to ensure all phases of testing is carried out and meeting the deadlines.

Coordinating Daily stand up meetings which includes business, developers, Vendor

Support business with information from Vendor and developers.

Coordinating business for vendor production deployments.

Planning releases and deployments.

Understands the time sensitive nature of the business and strives to work as efficiently as possible

Develops solutions to automate testing scenarios to reduce time requirements

Produces security minded high-quality code

Continuously applies industry standard, object-oriented programming best practices.

Thought partners with development team to provide insights and possible solutions to resolve issues in the most efficient manner possible

What You’ll Need:
3 – 5 years of related experience

Knowledge of the software development life cycle, testing strategies, tools, and QA methodologies.

Experienced working with database testing in MySQL Server environments and Networking projects

Knowledge on Azure Devops tool

Quick learner with proven ability to work under minimal guidance.

Experience working with and testing web services – REST, SOAP, JSON.

Knowledge of selenium with C# and Nunit

Experience with performance testing is considered an asset

Experience working on Mobile Testing

Self-motivated, flexible, and creative in problem solving

Detailed-oriented, thorough, with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

Excellent organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills.

Understanding of travel business considered an asset.

About Us:
Sunwing Travel Group is the largest vertically integrated travel group in North America and during this unprecedented time, we are continuing to search for top talent. We are looking for candidates who are EPIC (entrepreneurial, passionate, innovative, and customer-centric) to join our team and help deliver our purpose “passionate people making vacation dreams come true”.

We want to continue to do our part to help end this pandemic, protect our employees and those vacationing with us, and to support the travel industry’s full recovery. Sunwing requires full vaccination against COVID-19 for our new and existing employees. We will make accommodations for qualifying medical or religious exemptions.

To learn more about our vaccination policy, follow this link: https://rb.gy/b2xavb

Also, learn more about our Safe with Sunwing commitment and how Sunwing is keeping its employees and customers safe here: https://rb.gy/havndq

We thank all who apply however only those who meet the qualifications will be contacted.

At Sunwing, diversity is important to us, follow this link: https://rb.gy/uqytsl to learn about how Diversity and Inclusion has always been, and continues to be, a top priority for us. We are proud that our workforce is made up of passionate people from all experiences and backgrounds. We are also committed to employment equity and to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment. We welcome applications from everyone. We will accommodate all applicants throughout the hiring process. If you are an individual who requires accommodation to apply to this position, please email [email protected]