Cortex is a high end staffing & Outsourcing Company that offers an array of services to clients ranging from Start-ups to global Fortune 500 companies in US, Canada & India. We’ve connected thousands of the industry’s best and brightest talents with some of the most rewarding opportunities. Established in 2006, Cortex brings over 10 years of experience to the Information technology staffing space. We are committed to producing results for our clients, candidates and employees. We serve IT professionals with exciting and pertinent opportunities that can transform their future. We believe in providing a great environment & ecosystem to our employees, who act as pillars to our growing organization. Cortex constantly innovates to exist, emerge & excel in the fields of staffing and outsourcing.
Our approach towards staffing is diverse. Cortex sources, analyzes, suggests and connects the two ends – client and candidate with our diversity recruitment strategy. With our client focused approach, people centric culture & firm eye on process and innovation, Cortex has the right balance to deliver consistent results to our clients.

Vision

• To evolve as a prominent player in the staffing and outsourcing industry – India & North America
• To emerge as one hub for all staffing and outsourcing needs and to carve a niche for ourselves by means of uniqueness and quality

Hi,

We have an urgent requirement for a 

QA Portfolio Manager

This is a Permanent position based in Scarborough, ON 

Role: QA Portfolio Manager

Location: Scarborough, ON

Key Responsibilities:

• Experience of 12 + years of in managing Testing projects in Banking Domain.

• Experience in providing Estimates, Preparing Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Closure Reports

• Manage and enable a team of QA Analysts, delivering quality, on-time, and on-budget

• Manage the day-to-day aspects of multiple testing projects; requirements analysis, planning, test engineering, and implementation

• Be responsible for demonstrating leadership to prevent or eliminate defects in the products to satisfy their valued customers with timely and quality releases

• Review and update quality standards, ensuring policies and procedures are enforced on all projects

• Implement  and lead industry best practices for Quality Assurance

• Oversee the Defect Triage Process.

• Provide feasible work estimates for all QA activities related to a particular project or individual assignments

• Lead the test plan and test case reviews for assigned projects and participate in required review sessions

• Assign work to team members and optimize resource allocation.  Requires reporting project status in a timely manner, tracking and communicating team capacity

• Track Testing Metrics, Adhering to project KPIs.

• Mentors and motivates QA Analysts

Qualifications:

• Must have a University Degree - Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent preferred

• Must be performance driven, detail and results-oriented

• Must have excellent leadership, time management, communication, organizational and decision making skills

• Thorough understanding of, and experience with, testing methodologies and Issue/Bug tracking tools

• Complete understanding of configuration and release management

• Experience with bug detection, reporting, tracking and triage and project/management reporting of defect rates, quality measures compliance etc.

• Capable of motivating and managing a team of 30 QA Analysts.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.