Junior QA Specialist

Position Summary

The Software Engineering department is looking for a Junior Quality Assurance Specialist.

As a Junior QA Specialist, you bring a developing foundation in both functional and automated quality assurance practices. You work closely with your development team to help ensure product quality — reviewing requirements, user stories, technical designs, and acceptance criteria to create practical testing approaches that validate changes across the application stack. You are comfortable contributing through a mix of manual and automation testing, including functional, regression, exploratory, and basic automated coverage. You are curious, detail-oriented, and motivated to grow your technical skills across code, and data layers. You value teamwork, ask thoughtful questions, and balance speed with quality

Competencies Critical for Success

• A genuine dedication to implementing high-quality products

• A foundational understanding of functional, regression, integration, exploratory, and automated testing techniques

• A passion for learning, continuous improvement, and teamwork

• An interest in building full stack QA skills across UI, API, and data validation

Primary Responsibilities

• Working with your development team to create and maintain a quality product

• Reviewing and analyzing requirements to support effective test strategies, test plans, and test cases for both functional and automation testing

• Contributing to automated test coverage and executing manual tests as required, including learning and contributing to automation frameworks and reusable test assets under guidance from senior team members

• Testing against requirements and acceptance criteria through scripted, regression, and exploratory testing to ensure solutions meet business needs

• Setting up and using testing environments to execute simple to moderately complex tests

• Reporting and tracking high quality bugs using Jira

• Advocating for quality best practices within your team and aligning with QA specialist from other teams to support departmental quality improvement efforts

• Creating and maintaining supporting QA documentation related to products, processes, and testing practices

• Supporting validation of front-end, API, and data flows as part of a full stack quality approach

Additional Duties and Expectations

• Promote Accuro' s “Blue Culture” framework to foster a collaborative, positive and efficient workplace

• Contribute to the organization's positive image both internally and externally

• Perform other duties consistent with the position, as reasonably directed by your manager

Qualifications, Education and Experience Requirements

Role Requirements

• A degree or diploma in Engineering, Computer Science, Software Development, or a related field

• 1-3 years of total experience in software quality assurance, software development, or a combination of both

• Foundational understanding of software testing principles across manual and automated testing

• Experience with black box and functional testing

• Exposure to test automation concepts and experience creating or maintaining basic automated tests

• Awareness of front-end and back-end testing concepts

• Exposure to UI testing tools such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright

• Exposure to API testing tools such as Postman or similar tools

• Basic understanding of databases and ability to perform simple data validation using SQL

• Experience with version control systems such as Git

• Ability to read and contribute to test scripts in languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Java

• Ability to create and maintain test cases in a centralized test case management tool such as AIO Tests 

• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and willingness to learn

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Extra considerations for Candidate with:

• ISTQB Software Tester Certification Foundation Level

• Experience with Atlassian products; Jira and Confluence an asset

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

• Experience testing web, desktop, or mobile applications

• Testing software in healthcare or clinical healthcare experience

• Previous experience in high data security/privacy environments

• Product knowledge in any of QHR’s main products

• Exposure to performance or load testing tools

• Experience in design, development, or implementation of a Quality Assurance Strategy

Compensation and Logistics

• Base salary, variable bonus established at the corporate level, competitive benefits package

  • Hiring Range: $60,000 - $70,000 annual

  • Final pay for this position may depend on candidate knowledge, skills, experience and location

• Full time, permanent

• No travel required

Accuro is a dynamic, high-growth Canadian technology company and division of Loblaw Companies Limited. Our mission is to unite Canadian Healthcare, connecting Providers and their Patients to information and each other.