Job Details:
Job Title: Senior QA Analyst – Finance & Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
Location: Montreal, QC (Hybrid 1 day onsite)
Duration: 12+ Months contract with possibility of extension
Pay Rate: 80/Hour on CAD on Inc.
Job Description:
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
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.
