Senior Quality Analyst

Senior Quality Analyst
Full Time Permanent, 4 Days On-Site in Toronto, ON
Client: Canadian Tire

About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Responsibilities  
Testing & Execution 

• Develop comprehensive test strategy documentation outlining the direction for all testing activities throughout an initiative's lifecycle
• Lead QA activities for assigned initiatives, including test planning, execution coordination, and sign-off support. 
• Provide guidance and day-to-day direction to junior QEs, including review of test cases and testing approach. 
• Support defect triage discussions and recommend risk-based testing priorities. 
• Execute functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing for complex features, applications, and end-to-end business flows. 
• Lead cross-functional integration and end-to-end testing efforts to ensure comprehensive validation of system interactions and workflows. 
• Design, review, and maintain test cases based on requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, ensuring adequate coverage of business and technical risks. 
• Validate fixes and retest defects to ensure resolution and prevent regressions. 
• Identify, log, prioritize, and track defects with clear reproduction steps; work closely with developers, Product Owners, and stakeholders to drive timely resolution.

 
Sprint & Team Collaboration

• Act as the primary QA point of contact for the Agile team or project.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies, including planning, stand-ups, refinements, and retrospectives, providing QA leadership and direction.
• Lead and actively contribute to requirements refinement sessions, ensuring clarity, completeness, and testability of requirements.
• Work closely with Agile teams (developers/PO/BSA) to clarify expected behavior, dependencies, and edge cases.
• Ensure all stories and features meet the Definition of Done from a quality and risk perspective.

 
Documentation & Support

• Maintain and review clear test evidence, test scenarios, and documentation as required.
• Coordinate and support test data setup and environment readiness across testing phases.
• Ensure testing activities align with established QA processes and team standards.
• Provide test status, risk assessment, and release readiness updates to the team and stakeholders.

 
Additional Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Test Automation Engineers to identify automation candidates and support automation coverage from a functional perspective.
• Share functional knowledge and testing insights with the Agile team to improve overall product quality.
• Proven self-starter with ability to work highly independently.

 
QE Skills

• Strong understanding of QE methodologies and hands-on testing approaches.
• Advanced requirements analysis and interpretation skills.
• Extensive experience writing functional test cases for Sanity, Smoke, System, Integration, Regression, and End-to-End testing.
• Strong functional and integration testing proficiency.
• Proven defect management and triage experience.
• Solid knowledge of test design techniques and risk-based