QA Systems Testing Analyst

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The Bank of Canada has a vision to be a leading central bank—dynamic, engaged and trusted—committed to a better Canada. No other employer in the country offers you the unique opportunity to work at the very center of Canada’s economy, in an organization with significant impact on the economic and financial well-being of all Canadians. You will be challenged, energized and motivated to excel in our environment.

Building on the principles that have always guided us – excellence, integrity and respect – we strive to be forward-looking and innovative, to welcome people with diverse perspectives and talents, and to earn trust by living up to our commitments and by clearly explaining the intent of our policies and actions.

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The Team
The Information Technology Services (ITS) Collateral Management Application Service (CMS) team is seeking interested candidates passionate about modern technology, along with innovating QA processes focused around managing financial securities and collateral management.

Our team is in the early process of automating manual test cases and advancing to the implementation of a DevOps toolchain (CI/CD) capable of scheduling the run of automation test suites and monitoring execution status.

What you will do

• Design and implement manual and automation tests for component, integration or system testing in collaboration with business analysts and developers.
• Maintain current regression suites and create new automated tests for new feature work.
• Work in an Agile environment and will provide software testing expertise through coaching and mentoring.
• Suggest new approaches to existing or planned testing that leads to a scalable and reliable automation framework.
• Provide detailed configuration and descriptions for passing and failing tests.
• Ensure quality of routine operations process by monitoring and improving the health of the test automation systems and their integration
• Support our continuous testing practices.
• Perform code review for automated test scripts and troubleshoot issues.
• Collaborate with teams and individuals to both clarify and understand the business needs and technical capabilities.
• Identify manual tests to perform in each functional area, create high level test cases as well as detailed descriptive step by step test cases to improve the overall test coverage.
• Develop deep knowledge of the system and understand the impact of changes to the system.
• Perform scenario-based testing from the business perspective.

What you need to succeed

• Experience with or in:
  • Automation and DevOps CI/CD tools such as: Git, Jenkins, Maven, etc.
  • any programming languages JavaScript (Preferred), Java, Python, HTML
  • using industry standard tools to develop and maintain automated user acceptance test suites and tying them into the continuous integration process.
  • Agile thinking and enjoy working in rapidly changing environments.
  • Testing web applications, third-party applications, and their integration with other systems (APIs)
  • debugging and characterizing defects and inconsistencies.
  • cross -browser testing, functional, stress/performance testing of multi-tiered web Applications
  • QA methods and best practices such as exploratory testing.
  • identifying manual test scenarios for large complex business critical system, creating test cases, executing identified tests, reconciliation test data and test evidence.
• Familiarity with setting up test data as required to reproduce issues and execute positive, negative, edge case automation testing.
• Mastery of common testing tools, technologies, and frameworks, specifically JavaScript and Cypress.
  

Our ideal candidate needs to demonstrate self-starter skills, and self-motivated with a desire to learn and contribute to the success of the team in meeting our objectives.

Assets

• Background and familiarity testing in a financial, banking, or collateral management environment.
• Experience in:
  • developing with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • developing and maintaining performance test scripts from design, to test execution and reporting of results.
  • automated performance testing tools like JMeter, Soap UI, or NeoLoad
  • Typescript
• Holder of any relevant QA and/or Scrum certifications (SAFe, Agile, etc.)

Education and experience
This position requires a minimum of 3 years of proven development experience in test automation and a minimum 5 years of proven experience in end-to-end manual functional testing.

What you need to know

• Language requirement: English or French essential
• Priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents
• Security level required: Be eligible to obtain Reliability
• Relocation assistance may be provided, if required
• Please save a copy of the job poster. Once the closing date has passed, it will no longer be available.
  

Hybrid Work Model #LI-Hybrid

The Bank offers work arrangements that provide employees with flexibility, enable high-performing teams, and support an excellent workplace culture. Most employees can telework from home for a substantial part of each month as part of the Bank`s hybrid work model, and they are expected on site at the Bank location a minimum of eight days per month to help build connections between colleagues. You must live in Canada, and within reasonable commuting distance of the office.

What you can expect from us
This is a great opportunity to join a leading organization and be part of a high-performing team. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to meet your needs at every stage of your life and career. For more information on key benefits please visit A great deal to consider.

• Salaries are based on qualifications and experience and typically range from $83,500 to $98,235 (job grade 16)
• The Bank offers an incentive for successfully meeting expectations at 5 to 7% of your base salary. The Bank offers performance pay for those who exceed expectations (10% of your base salary).. Exceptional performers who far exceed expectations may be eligible for higher performance pay.
• Flexible and comprehensive benefits so you can choose the level of health, dental disability and life and/or accident insurance coverage that meets your needs
• Extra vacation days (up to five each year) that you can purchase to add to your vacation entitlement
• Indexed, defined-benefit pension #LI-POST

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.