Quality Analyst (6-Month Contract)

Quality Analyst (6-Month Contract)

Who We Are: Cognition+ Inc. (“Cognition+”) is the leading provider of software solutions in the mutual insurance industry in Canada.  Founded in 1993 and located in London, Ontario, Cognition+ has strong longstanding relationships with insurance and technology partners in North America.  Cognition+ provides powerful, easy to use, and affordable software that ensures insurance companies of all sizes can compete in the insurance marketplace.  Cognition+ offers solutions for policy, claims, accounting, and financial reporting, and includes integrations with third party trading partners including brokers, financial institutions and service providers.  By gaining a deep understanding of our client’s business needs, and by constantly investing in R&D, we're committed to providing them with leading edge technologies to assist them in meeting their long term strategic initiatives.

Website: www.gocognition.com

Why Choose Cognition+?

• Competitive compensation package;
• Flexible work hours that offer work/life balance;
• Opportunity to learn, grow and innovate;
• Friendly and supportive team environment; and,
• Opportunity to provide your input into making this organization successful.

Position Summary: As a member of the QA team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with other talented members of our team to support, maintain and ensure quality for a complex insurance software system. You will create test plans, write manual test cases and execute manual tests. You will have the opportunity to work on a variety of tasks and develop your skills in many ways.

This position can be performed from our office in London Ontario, remotely in Ontario, or a combination of both.  Remote based employees may occasionally be asked to travel to our office for meetings or team building events.

Job Responsibilities:

• Perform various types of QA software testing including, but not limited to, manual functional web usability, system integration, regression, cross browser compatibility, ADA compliance, backend database validation and mobile application testing.
• Find and Document software Defects in JIRA including concise and detailed steps for duplication of issues found and assist with prioritization and resolution.
• Work collaboratively with project team to communicate testing progress and status, prioritize and track defects to closure, discuss project updates and issues to ensure appropriate follow through to resolution.
• Develop detailed test cases, ensure that tests cover all features of the system (happy path and edge cases), and ensure the complete requirement coverage.
• Work with the developers/BA’s to identify and prepare test data needed for the test execution.
• Review and analyze functional requirements to ensure that requirements are testable.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• A technical college or university credential in Computer Science, Information Technology or another related area.
• Min 1 year Prior experience in a Quality Assurance role using Agile.
• Experience working in a team based environment on teams of various sizes and composition.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Attention to detail and analytical thinking.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, etc.).
• Good organizational and time management skills with an ability to complete multiple concurrent assignments.
• Experience in Functional testing, System testing, User Acceptance testing and Exploratory testing.
• Intermediate knowledge and experience in software testing processes, quality controls, methodologies, and standards.
• Ability to adapt to new technologies / tools.
• Knowledge of current industry trends.
• Knowledge and experience in agile project methodologies, such as scrum.
• Knowledge of documentation/defect tracking tools such as JIRA, Confluence.
• Basic knowledge of SQL queries and automation tools.

Additional Bonus Skills:

• Prior experience working in the insurance industry;
• Industry related Professional Certification in Insurance or Software Quality (ISTQB, CIP)

Equal Employment Opportunities:

Cognition+ Inc. is committed to employment equity and welcomes diversity. We encourage applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Cognition+ Inc. provides accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process. If you require accommodation, please contact Human Resources at hr@gocognition.com or call 519-432-8553 ext. 362.

Apply Online!

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply online at https://gocognition.com/join-us/

We thank all applicants for their interest in this position, however only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps in the process.