Quality Assurance Specialist

Advantages
Number of hours per week: 40 hours/week
Benefits Package Offered for the role: Disability benefits, Health care plan, Vision care benefits



Responsibilities
The main missions are:

Ensure that the technical and non-technical requirements of the Customer are recorded, understood and managed efficiently by all members of the bid/project team
Ensure that the project deliverables comply with the Customer's requirements and with the applicable regulations and standards
Adjust Quality Assurance activities with a risk-driven mindset, anticipating risks, taking into account the maturity of the Bid/Project team, and focusing on core Quality value-added activities
Support the product, bid and project teams in applying processes, proactively identifying risks and resolving problems
Verify the execution of the project (in relation to the plans): evaluate achievements at key milestones and deliverables, and provide visibility through "Quality Advice"

In particular:
On a product line:
Verify the involvement of all relevant stakeholders and assure the implementation of clear governance rules for product line management
Evaluate the product life cycle synchronization periods and assure that all critical steps have been executed before each decision milestone
Assure that the products meet the technical / non-technical requirements / quality standards and that the product line team addresses the relevant action plans.

On a bid:
Contribute to the framing of the bid, the tailoring of the bid baseline, verify the involvement of all stakeholders and assure the implementation of clear governance rules
Evaluate the bid preparation, assure that all critical steps, decisions and actions have been executed before each decision milestone, including actions to mitigate risks and foresees the opportunities
Assure the implementation or planning of actions to mitigate the risks and seize the opportunities on sub-contracted work packages
Define the Quality Assurance part of the offer.

On a project:
Assure that the concerns of customers are appropriately captured, understood and efficiently and effectively handled by the project team
Cascade and/or manage the Quality Assurance requirements
Guide the project team in the definition and tailoring of the project baseline and validate the resulting plans
Assure the implementation or planning of actions to mitigate the risks and seize the opportunities on sub-contracted work packages.

Qualifications
Skills and Abilities:

Minimum B.S Computer Science/Electrical/Mechanical/Computer Engineering or equivalent
3 to 5 years of hands-on experience in Engineering System/Software development or Quality Assurance Specialist or Manager in a technology or manufacturing setting
Must to have a solid understanding of general QA practices and procedures, Quality Management System
Ability to conduct investigations and Root Cause Analysis across multiple disciplines (System, Software, Hardware, PMO….)

Summary
Location: North York

Interested candidates can directly send over their resumes to Kethik at karthikeyan.venkataramana@randstad.ca

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