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27 Jun 2022

Full-Time Quality Assurance Consultant

Slalom Consulting – Posted by mollyloughlin Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Job Description

Slalom is a modern consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. In over 41 markets across the US, UK, Japan, Australia, and Canada, our teams have the autonomy to move fast and do what’s right, always. They are backed by regional innovation hubs, a global culture of collaboration, and partnerships with the world’s top technology providers.

 

At Slalom, personal connection meets global scale. We build deep relationships with our clients within our markets and across the globe, while sharing insights across markets to bring the full breadth of Slalom’s expertise to every engagement. Our seven regional Build Centers are hubs for innovation, attracting top talent to rapidly co-create the technology products of tomorrow. We also nurture strong partnerships with over 200 leading technology providers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Salesforce.

 

With our purpose-driven mindset, we partner with companies to push the boundaries of what’s possible—together. Here at Slalom, we are motivated every day by our company’s core values and vision. Our core values are at the heart of everything we do and guide how we work with our clients, our teams, and our communities. Each core value reminds us to stay true to ourselves while driving amazing outcomes for our clients. Our guiding principle is to “Love your Future” which inspires our culture, work, and relationships, and most importantly it is how we make our biggest impact!

 

Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, Slalom has organically grown to over 11,000 employees! We were named one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2021 for the 6th year in a row and are regularly recognized by our employees as a Best Place to Work. Learn more at slalom.com.

 

Slalom in Canada began in 2015 and has grown to over 800 employees across 4 markets – Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary & Montréal.

 

Job Title: QA Consultant

At Slalom, Quality Assurance is dedicated to maximizing the value and effectiveness of our delivery teams by bringing modern, innovative testing techniques and tools to our solutions and our clients.

We embrace collaborative, agile testing processes and focus on enabling whole-team ownership of quality.

 

Slalom is looking for a Quality Assurance Consultant to help establish and grow this practice within Delivery Leadership. This role requires working with project teams and leadership to define test strategies and approaches, as well as driving implementation across a variety of Slalom clients.

Successful candidates will have experience developing testing processes and strategies across different industries, as our clients will turn to you to help implement these programs for them.

 

What will you do?

  • Perform all aspects of testing for client engagements
  • Develop a detailed testing approach and plans for specific test areas or overall plans for small to medium size projects
  • Produce status reports and quality metrics, and be able to articulate both the implicit and explicit significance to project and client leadership.
  • Facilitate defect triage and manage the overall defect resolution process
  • Conduct test case reviews and ensure requirements traceability, proper coverage
  • Design test cases and execute all types of testing (e.g. functional, integration, end-to-end) on a variety of platforms (e.g. mobile, web, portal frameworks)
  • Coordinate User Acceptance Testing or other Non-functional test phases
  • Assist project teams in determining appropriate quality goals and acceptance criteria
  • Mentor junior members of the QA team and perform all responsibilities of the QA Analyst when required
  • Assist in the business development of Slalom’s QA practice

What will you bring?

  • Experience in all phases of the software and testing lifecycle, inception through deployment
  • Project experience using an Agile methodology (e.g. Scrum)
  • Experience testing in multiple industries and application-under-test technologies
  • Experience with test management tools (e.g. JIRA, TestRail, HP ALM)
  • SQL proficiency
  • Four (4) plus years of QA professional experience
  • Mixed experience in various QA-related roles such as:
    • Functional tester
    • Defect management
    • QA tools, reporting, and metrics specialist
    • Mobile or web UX tester
    • Test environment or test data coordinator/lead
    • Test Lead (Functional or Non-Functional) –
      • Experience leading 1 or 2 resources on a small to medium size and complexity initiative
    • UAT Coordination

Nice to have qualifications:

Additional experience in any of the following Quality Assurance Activities:

  • Unit and integration testing
  • Service / API testing
  • Performance/load testing
  • Infrastructure / Cloud testing
  • Application security testing
  • Custom test tool development
  • Project management, Scrum master
  • Business requirements analysis
  • Consulting experience
  • Test Maturity Assessments
  • Test Data Management
  • Test Environment Management
  • Test Automation Framework establishment
  • Test Estimation
  • Testing using a Continuous Delivery Pipeline tool (i.e. Jenkins)

Slalom is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer dedicated to building a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will work to reasonably accommodate applicants’ needs throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.

 

Please note if you are hired at Slalom you will be required to complete a background check.

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How to Apply

Please apply via this link: https://jobs.slalom.com//#/post/a0h1R00000CzpC7QAJ

Job Types: Full-Time.

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