Quality Assurance Analyst
- Montreal, QC, Canada
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Quality Assurance Lead (SAP S/4HANA)
Location: Montreal, QC
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 3 days onsite per week
Contract: 12 months, with possibility of extension
Language: Bilingual – English and French required; Spanish is an asset
About the Role
Rio Tinto is seeking a Quality Assurance Lead to provide independent oversight of SAP S/4HANA testing governance and readiness. The role ensures that formal testing and deployment decisions are supported by validated evidence, consistent quality controls, and transparent reporting across SIT, UAT-aligned assurance, SIT2, cutover rehearsals, and hypercare.
Key Responsibilities
Maintain regional testing governance frameworks, readiness standards, and quality controls.
Independently assess test phase readiness and validate evidence for formal quality gates.
Identify and escalate testing risks, quality gaps, control weaknesses, and readiness issues.
Ensure test documentation, artefacts, and evidence meet programme standards.
Oversee defect governance, including traceability, ageing, prioritization, reporting, and escalation.
Review System Integrator testing and defect reports to identify trends, risks, and evidence gaps.
Monitor test management tool compliance, including qTest evidence and access dependencies.
Collaborate with testing leaders, delivery teams, GPOs, System Integrators, and other stakeholders while maintaining independent oversight.
Prepare QA gate readiness reports with clear pass, conditional pass, or blocker recommendations.
Required Skills & Experience
Strong expertise in SAP S/4HANA test governance, QA standards, controls, and formal quality gate management.
Experience coordinating or overseeing testing governance in complex, multi-team delivery environments.
Experience independently assessing readiness and constructively challenging delivery teams.
Strong understanding of defect management, testing metrics, traceability, and evidence standards.
Experience with test management tools; qTest experience is highly regarded.
Excellent analytical thinking, documentation, risk assessment, and reporting skills.
Ability to collaborate effectively while escalating material quality and compliance gaps.
Bilingual in English and French.
Ability to work onsite in Montreal 3 days per week.
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Responsibilities
Maintain testing governance frameworks and quality controls, independently assess readiness, and validate evidence for formal quality gates across SAP S/4HANA testing and deployment phases. Oversee defect governance, review testing reports and tool compliance, escalate risks and quality gaps, and provide clear gate readiness recommendations.
Requirements
Requires strong expertise in SAP S/4HANA test governance, QA controls, formal quality gates, defect management, testing metrics, traceability, and evidence standards in complex delivery environments. Candidates must be bilingual in English and French, able to independently assess readiness and challenge delivery teams, and available to work onsite in Montreal three days per week; qTest experience is highly regarded.
Skills
- SAP S/4HANA Test Governance
- Quality Assurance
- Testing Readiness Assessment
- Quality Gate Management
- Defect Management
- Testing Metrics
- Traceability
- Evidence Validation
- Risk Assessment
- Test Documentation
- qTest
- Analytical Thinking
- Reporting
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- English
- French
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- Technology
- Software
- Management & Leadership
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- SAP S/4HANA
- Quality Assurance
- Test Governance
- Testing Readiness
- Quality Controls
- Quality Gates
- System Integration Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- SIT2
- Cutover Rehearsals
- Hypercare
- Defect Governance
- Defect Traceability
- Defect Prioritization
- Testing Metrics
- Evidence Standards
- qTest
- Test Management Tools
- Risk Assessment
- Readiness Reporting
- System Integrators
- Bilingual English and French
- Montreal