Company Description

Publicis is an omni-channel communications agency with over 600 employees across our Canadian operations. The office is the largest in our industry in Canada and boasts talent across various disciplines of marketing and advertising expertise. Publicis carries a balanced split of Canadian, U.S. and Global clients for which we are Agency of Record. Publicis supports a range of D&I actions through our Driving Change team as well as giving back to the community through a long-standing participation in the Out of the Cold Program. With a strong, active and familial culture, Pub United is the agency’s social club, hosting events as wide reaching as Curling, Trivia Nights and more.

Job Description

A Toronto-based communications company is seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst for a full-time position starting immediately. Contract options are available upon inquiry. As a successful candidate, you will have professional QA experience in an Agile development environment. You strive for excellence in your work and always seek to contribute to the development of high quality, dynamic, and usable sites for any audience. You have an ongoing desire to learn and share your knowledge. You want to participate in a culture of innovation and creativity and be part of a team that is driven to succeed. A successful candidate will meet all the Basic Qualifications below, and some of the Preferred Qualifications.

In this role, you may be expected to

• Participate in project planning meetings, offering insight and expertise to uphold quality and sufficiently craft a test plan that is fit to purpose.
• Provide estimates for executing test plans for upcoming projects.
• Execute regression tests that may follow a predesigned test plan or may be augmented to be efficient for the code coverage required.
• Triage incoming defect tickets from other members of the cross-discipline team to ensure priority issues are being addressed, and irrelevant issues are accurately deprioritized.
• Execute and audit web properties for compliance with Accessibility, SEO, and Analytics standards. This includes being aware of possible violations in Data Protection compliance.
• Conduct Quality Assurance sweeps as necessary, leveraging automated test tools to make this work efficient.
• Work with the development team to constantly improve the testing framework, bringing new ideas from the industry to planning and retrospective discussions.
• Exercise best practices, current trends, and come up with creative solutions to testing or compliance problems or obstacles.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of overall software or web QA experience.
• Knowledge of QA methodology and tools, software testing standards, methods, and conventions, and the product development cycle.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing high-quality testing plans and producing high quality and verbose QA documentation.
• Strong ability to multi-task and prioritize. Are resourceful, self-directed, proactive, and accountable problem solver.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in scripting, user-level test automation and performing black-box testing.
• Experience tracking and documenting your work through Jira and test suite tools such as Zephyr.
• Experience performing accessibility audits and tests including manual validation of WCAG compliance up to Level AA.
• Experience performing SEO audits and tests including validation of schema, crawlability, and web core vitals.
• Experience performing analytics audits and tests, ideally with Google solutions (UA, GA4, and GTM).

Additional Information

Publicis Canada is committed to building a diverse workforce representative of our community. We encourage and are pleased to consider all qualified candidates, without regard to race, colour, citizenship, religion, sex, marital / family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, aboriginal status, age, disability or persons who may require an accommodation, to apply. If you require a specific accommodation please contact Human Resources at 416-925-7733 or by email at inquiries@publicisna.com