Sr. Bilingual QA Analyst to lead manual testing and defect management for Large Banking Client

12 months intially - possible extension
Location: Montreal, QC (Hybrid as needed)
Language: English & French

A successful candidate will be performing tests on the various applications in the regulatory sector. You will work closely with the various stakeholders to plan, execute and monitor content testing under your responsibility

Responsibilities:

• Collect and analyze relevant information regarding the assigned content in order to prepare test plans
• Participate in the development, implementation and execution of appropriate test plans according to specifications
• Run the tests
• Follow up on the progress of the tests, the correction and the diagnosis of the anomalies encountered
• Guarantee good test coverage, and guarantee the quality of the versions delivered
• Work to improve the optimization of quality assurance practices (tools, methods, etc.);
• Report any anomaly observed during the tests

Must Haves:

• Min. experience of 8 years as a QA Analyst
• Demonstrated experience in the functional and technical analysis of requirements, use cases, functional documents and diagram\architectural document
• Proficiency in test writing techniques, test data management, coverage and traceability to requirements in JIRA and XRAY (or similar tool)
• Experience in the execution of tests, and management of defects in JIRA and XRAY (or similar tool).
• Experience in UI (manual), backend – API (using tools like postman or similar), BD (using tools like Toad or similar) and Apache Kafka event payload testing
• Bilingualism (spoken/written) French and English 

Nice to Haves:

• Knowledge of a bank's transactional systems 
• Experience with Financial sector