Job Title: Bilingual Senior QA Analyst – Finance & Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
Location: Montreal, QC(Hybrid)
Duration: Contract
Rail- CAD$70-80/hr INC
Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced a Senior Bilingual Quality Assurance Analyst with a strong background in Finance, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions.
The QA Analyst will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing for financial planning solutions, with particular focus on Oracle EPM / Hyperion capabilities supporting budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, reporting, and management planning.
The successful candidate will combine strong QA practices with an understanding of financial processes and will work closely with Finance, FP&A, business stakeholders, functional analysts, developers, and project teams to ensure that solutions meet business requirements and produce accurate, reliable financial results.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Assurance & Testing
- Develop and maintain comprehensive test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and test scripts based on business and functional requirements.
- Execute functional, system integration, regression, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Validate system configurations, business rules, calculations, workflows, integrations, and reporting.
- Document defects clearly, including expected versus actual results, supporting evidence, severity, and business impact.
- Coordinate defect triage, retesting, and closure with functional and technical teams.
- Maintain testing traceability between business requirements, test cases, defects, and final validation results.
- Support test-cycle readiness and provide clear reporting on test execution, defects, risks, and overall quality.
Finance & EPM Validation
- Validate EPM solutions supporting:
- Annual budgeting and planning
- Forecasting and rolling forecasts
- Financial modelling and scenario analysis
- Workforce and compensation planning
- Capital expenditure planning
- Operating expense and revenue planning
- Allocation models
- Financial reporting and management reporting
- Validate financial calculations, assumptions, drivers, business rules, and data consistency.
- Reconcile EPM results against source systems, approved financial models, or established Finance benchmarks.
- Verify dimensional structures such as accounts, entities, departments, cost centres, scenarios, versions, periods, and other planning dimensions.
- Validate data loads, data transformations, mappings, and integrations between EPM and upstream/downstream systems.
- Ensure actuals, budgets, forecasts, and scenarios are represented consistently and accurately throughout the solution.
Business & Stakeholder Collaboration
- Work closely with Finance and FP&A teams to understand budgeting, forecasting, modelling, and reporting requirements.
- Translate business requirements and acceptance criteria into detailed test scenarios.
- Support Finance users during User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Help business users identify appropriate test scenarios, expected results, and financial reconciliation criteria.
- Facilitate defect discussions involving business, functional, technical, and implementation teams.
- Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and risks before production deployment.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Approximately 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, business systems testing, financial systems, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience testing financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, or EPM solutions.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle EPM Cloud, Oracle Hyperion Planning, or comparable EPM platforms.
- Strong knowledge of financial planning and analysis processes.
- Strong understanding of:
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Financial modelling
- Variance analysis
- Actual vs. budget/forecast reconciliation
- Financial reporting
- Cost centres and organizational structures
- Financial assumptions and business drivers
- Experience developing and executing structured test cases and documenting defects.
- Experience supporting or coordinating UAT with Finance stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Oracle EPM solutions such as Planning, Financial Consolidation and Close, Account Reconciliation, or related Oracle EPM Cloud capabilities.
- Experience with Smart View and Excel-based financial analysis.
- Experience validating integrations between EPM, ERP, HR, payroll, or other enterprise systems.
- Experience with financial data reconciliation and large-volume data validation.
- Familiarity with defect/test management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar platforms.
- Experience delivering solutions in a project-based or transformation environment.
- Knowledge of automated testing or data-validation techniques would be considered an asset.
- Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery models.
Key Competencies
The ideal candidate will demonstrate:
- Financial acumen: Understands how budgets, forecasts, assumptions, and financial models work, rather than simply testing screens and workflows.
- Attention to detail: Able to identify discrepancies in calculations, mappings, rules, and financial data.
- Analytical thinking: Can determine whether an output is financially logical as well as technically correct.
- Business orientation: Understands the impact of system defects on Finance processes and reporting.
- Structured QA approach: Maintains disciplined test documentation, traceability, evidence, and defect management.
- Stakeholder collaboration: Comfortable working directly with Finance leaders, SMEs, technical teams, implementation partners, and project management.
