We are looking for a QA Lead with strong experience in the Allegro application and the energy & trading domain. In this role, you will own the end-to-end testing lifecycle—driving test planning, STLC execution, SQL/API validation, and defect management—while partnering with business stakeholders to ensure seamless user acceptance testing (UAT) and high-quality software delivery.
In this role, you will
Business Analysis
- Engage with business stakeholders to elicit, document, and validate requirements.
- Produce clear and detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and use cases.
- Facilitate workshops and requirement walkthroughs with both business and technical teams.
- Identify gaps, dependencies, and risks early in the delivery lifecycle.
- Maintain and manage the requirements traceability matrix throughout the project.
Quality Assurance
- Develop comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test cases aligned to business requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Execute functional, regression, integration, and UAT test cycles.
- Log, track, and manage defects through to resolution.
- Work closely with developers to ensure defects are understood and fixes are verified.
- Support and coordinate User Acceptance Testing with business stakeholders.
- Contribute to test automation where applicable.
Collaboration & Governance
- Act as the single point of contact between business stakeholders and the QA/delivery team.
- Ensure requirements and test coverage are aligned at every stage of delivery.
- Participate in sprint ceremonies — planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Produce clear status reports on testing progress, defect trends, and quality metrics.
- Champion quality standards and best practices across the team.
Required skills
- Strong experience in Allegro application.
- Energy and trading domain.
- SQL, API testing.
- Business analytic skills.
- Strong STLC.
Preferred skills
Energy and trading domain experience is preferred.
We're eager to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in various ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the required skills listed. Your transferable skills and experiences matter—help us see how you the right person for this role.
Working arrangements
At Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible, and we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is an onsite position requiring 5 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Calgary, AB.
The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
Applications for this position are reviewed by our recruitment team without the use of artificial intelligence screening tools.
Über Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) i ist ein Technologiedienstleister und Entwickler von KI-Lösungen. Wir schlagen die Brücke zwischen KI-Investitionen und echtem unternehmerischem Mehrwert, indem wir ganzheitliche Full-Stack-KI-Lösungen für unsere Kunden entwickeln. Mit unserer fundierten Branchen-, Prozess- und Engineering-Expertise integrieren wir die spezifischen Anforderungen von Unternehmen passgenau in Technologiesysteme. So entfalten wir das menschliche Potenzial, erzielen greifbare Ergebnisse und sichern globalen Unternehmen in einer sich rasant wandelnden Welt den entscheidenden Vorsprung. Erfahren Sie mehr unter cognizant.ai oder @cognizant.
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