About the Role
Support the delivery of high-quality business applications in the insurance sector through comprehensive manual testing. Work remotely from Ontario in a collaborative Agile environment, validating complex business rules, pricing calculations, integrations, and enterprise systems to help ensure reliable software releases.
Responsibilities
- Review business requirements, user stories, and functional specifications.
- Create and execute detailed manual test cases and test scenarios.
- Validate complex pricing calculations and business rule execution.
- Perform functional, integration, system, regression, and support user acceptance testing.
- Conduct end-to-end testing across multiple integrated applications.
- Verify data consistency between application interfaces, reports, APIs, and batch outputs.
- Track, document, and manage defects through resolution.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and defect triage discussions.
- Collaborate with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, QA team members, and other project stakeholders to ensure quality standards are met before release.
- Support production validation and post-deployment testing activities as required.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in manual quality assurance and software testing.
- Strong experience creating and executing detailed test cases, test plans, and test scenarios.
- Experience validating complex business processes, calculations, and rule-based systems.
- Proven ability to perform end-to-end testing across multiple integrated applications.
- Strong defect management experience, including defect reporting, tracking, support for root-cause analysis, and validation.
- Experience testing financial services, insurance, wealth management, or pricing systems is considered an asset.
- Strong SQL and data validation skills are considered an asset.
- Experience validating batch processes, file-based integrations, CSV outputs, and reports is considered an asset.
- Exposure to API testing using tools such as Postman for functional validation is considered an asset.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies and tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms is considered an asset.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Detail-oriented with a strong focus on quality and accuracy.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Experience supporting business-critical enterprise applications.
- Comfortable working with distributed teams in an Agile environment.
Skills
- Manual Testing
- Quality Assurance
- Software Testing
- Test Case Creation
- Test Scenario Creation
- Test Plan Creation
- Business Process Validation
- Calculation Validation
- Rule-based System Validation
- End-to-End Testing
- Integration Testing
- System Testing
- Regression Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- Defect Management
- Defect Reporting
- Root Cause Analysis
- SQL
- Data Validation
- Batch Process Testing
- File-based Integration Testing
- CSV Output Validation
- Report Validation
- API Testing
- Postman
- Agile Methodologies
- Scrum Methodologies
- JIRA
- Azure DevOps
- Analytical Skills
- Problem-Solving Skills
- Communication Skills
- Stakeholder Management
- Independent Work
- Collaboration
- Enterprise Application Support
Location
- Remote
- Ontario
Work Type
- Remote
- 4-month contract
- Day schedule
- 37.50 hours per week
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- $50-56 per hour
- $60-66 per hour (Incorporated Business Rate)
Benefits
- Flexibility of remote work
About the Company
- Recruit Action (agency permit: AP-2504511) provides recruitment services through quality support and a personalized approach.
- As part of the screening process, some applications may be reviewed using artificial intelligence tools.
- Only candidates who meet the hiring criteria will be contacted.
