Infrastructure QA Lead

Infrastructure QA Lead (6 Month Contract)

Location: New Westminster, BC / Hybrid

Staffing Placement Opportunity

Services

• Reporting to the Project Manager and coordinating with the QA Manager for QA governance, standards, quality gates, and sign-off recommendations. The successful candidate will provide quality assurance analysis services including, but not limited to, the following: 1.1. Duties include all aspects of Quality Assurance and Testing. 1.2. Operate under established QA standards: evidence-based validation, risk-based testing, quality gates, traceability, transparent reporting, and independent verification of vendor claims.

1.3. Partner With The QA Manager To Define/maintain

• Test Plan and Strategy
• QA gates (Entry/Exit criteria for SIT, Migration Dry-Run, Cutover Go/No-Go, Hypercare Exit)
• Minimum evidence expectations for vendor deliverables
• Defect severity model and readiness thresholds

1.4. Vendor Evidence Verification: Ensure evidence list is complete, auditable, and aligned with approved designs and operational standards, including:

• Review and validate vendor evidence packages for build/configuration completion, integration test results, failover/resiliency tests, performance baselines, and as-built documentation/runbooks.
• Perform independent QA validation (targeted, high-risk checks) across:
• Network (reachability, MTU, VRF/VLAN routing, convergence/failover, DCI/WAN integration impacts)
• Compute (cluster health, HA/DRS behavior, vMotion, capacity/resilience)
• Storage & SAN (LUN access, multipathing, dual-fabric behavior, controller failover evidence review)
• Coordinate & support Cybersecurity & Privacy stakeholders for required evidence/artifacts
• Operational readiness: monitoring/alerting, backup/restore, DR replication/failover readiness

1.5. Migration Readiness & Cutover Support

• Define/maintain migration readiness checklist and required sign-offs (vendor, Ops, app owners)
• Coordinate post-migration smoke validation and evidence capture with application owners
• Provide QA oversight during cutover windows and hypercare; support triage and verification of fixes

1.6. Other QA Lead Duties

• Collaborate with impacted teams to design, develop, execute, and maintain Test Cases, Scenarios, and Scripts
• Identify automation opportunities, develop and maintain automatable activities
• Manage and monitor test effort, results, and defects
• Participate and maintain risk register and issue triage outcomes
• Provide regular and ad hoc status reports on testing work and progress
• Validate completeness of knowledge transfer and training materials, operational runbooks, as-built diagrams
• Participate in daily standups and project-related meetings

Deliverables:

• QA/Test Plan & Strategy for Infrastructure & Network
• Risk-based Test Coverage map
• QA & Testing artifacts, including test outcomes, reports, defects, and checklists
• QA Gate Entry & Exit Criteria
• QA Sign-off readiness assessment documentation and Go/No-Go recommendations
• QA Go-Live/Cutover checklists
• Operational readiness runbooks, knowledge transfer, and training materials

Knowledge & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent
• 3+ years of recent QA and Testing leadership (or equivalent) with infrastructure/platform/network programs
• Demonstrated experience in vendor-led delivery governance
• Strong understanding of Cisco networking concepts, converged infrastructure (FlexPod), virtualization (VMware), and storage/SAN fundamentals
• Solid understanding of QA/Testing best practices, risk-based testing, and quality gates across the SDLC
• Experience in a unionized environment is considered an asset

Note; this is an opportunity with a Microserve client.