Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Full -Time, Remote)
Location: Remote (Canada/US)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Technology / Product
About the Role
Saint Laurent Consulting is hiring on behalf of our client for a Full-Time, Remote QA Analyst. You’ll provide on-demand testing support to keep releases stable and user-friendly, creating and executing test plans, tightening release criteria, and pitching in on light automation where it adds value. QA certifications are a bonus (not required).
What You’ll Do
- Turn user stories into test plans/cases and acceptance criteria
- Execute functional, regression, smoke, and UAT testing (primarily manual)
- Log/track defects with clear repro steps, severity, and impact
- Contribute to small UI automation suites (Playwright/Cypress/Selenium) in CI
- Partner with Product/Engineering for triage and release readiness
- Share quality metrics and suggest process improvements
- Support ad-hoc/sprint testing with flexible availability
What You’ll Bring
- Minimum 5 years of experience in software QA (web and/or mobile)
- Strong grasp of SDLC/STLC and Agile/Scrum
- Hands-on with test case management (TestRail/Zephyr/Xray) and bug tracking (Jira/Azure DevOps)
- API testing comfort and basic SQL
- Familiarity with at least one UI automation framework (asset)
- Clear communication and a risk-based testing mindset
Nice to Have (Bonus)
- ISTQB/ASTQB Foundation, CSTE/CSQA, or Agile Tester certification
- Exposure to cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD, accessibility (WCAG), performance, or security testing
- Mobile testing with device farms (BrowserStack/Sauce Labs)