Sr Quality Assurance Specialist

Permanent Full Time 

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Role description 

The Sr. Quality Assurance Specialist leads Quality Assurance on major projects or initiatives along with a focus on ensuring overall squad alignment to best practices, proper documentation, continuous improvement and access management.

This role applies advanced knowledge to complex work and supports project, product and operations teams by sharing skills and mentoring. This role leads the work to implement solutions to complex testing problems, which may be independently or through leading, supporting the collaboration with other stakeholders across the Group Retirement Services space.

The individual must have good leadership, strong communication and problem-solving skills coupled with the ability to collaborate with stakeholders across multiple teams.

What you will do 

• Organize and deliver overall test coordination within project / initiatives
• Ensure traceability between requirements and testing related deliverables 
• Coordinate testing timelines, dependencies and interactions with dependent systems and delivery teams 
• Champion and contribute to the development and effective application of testing standards, tools, processes and best practices
• Squad level test case repository management, champion test data management techniques
• Overseeing team collaboration to produce test strategies, test plans, test cycles & execution, and other testing effort tasks
• Troubleshoots high complexity problems to determine root-cause, requiring analysis and exploration of options, recommending solutions or preparing discussion for escalation
• Adapts to organizational change, best practice and improvements across teams, including the effective implementation and adherence to analysis processes and practices and architectural directions

What you will bring 

• Expert knowledge of various software development lifecycle methodologies (Waterfall, Iterative, Agile) 
• Test leadership experience on large, complex projects, programs or initiatives 
• Large project scoping, estimating, and work management 
• Mapping complex requirements to test strategies and cases and analyzing test coverage 
• Developing effective working relationships with the business 
• Working experience in Group Retirement Services considered an asset 
• Demonstrate strong analytical, organizational, self motivational, problem-solving, and written communication skills to satisfy the main duties of this role 
• Strong experience in tools such as Zephyr, JIRA, Confluence, SQL Developer, TOAD etc. 

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The base salary for this position is between  $61000 - $114,000 annually.  This represents base salary only and does not represent other variable compensation components of our total compensation ( i.e. annual bonus, commission etc).  If you are selected to move forward in our recruitment process, your recruiter will be able to discuss additional details of our total rewards program with you.

For student opportunities only

For our student opportunities, the base salary will be dependent on the number of work terms you have completed along with other factors depending on your program. 

Career opportunities will be open a minimum of 5 business days from the date of posting, closing dates will vary depending on the search activity. All applications received will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Be your best at Canada Life- Apply today!

Being a part of Canada Life means you have a voice. This is a place where your unique background, perspectives and talents are valued, and shape our future success.

You can be your best here. You’re part of a diverse and inclusive workplace where your career and well-being are championed. You’ll have the opportunity to excel in your way, finding new and better ways to deliver exceptional customer and advisor experiences.

Together, as part of a great team, you’ll deliver on our shared purpose to improve the well-being of Canadians. It’s our driving force. Become part of a strong and successful company that’s trusted by millions of Canadians to do the right thing.

Canada Life serves?the financial security needs of more than 13 million people across Canada, with additional operations in Europe and the United States. As members of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies, we’re one of Canada’s leading insurers with interests in life insurance, health insurance, investment and retirement savings. We offer a broad portfolio of financial and benefit plan solutions for individuals, families, businesses and organizations.?

We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we live, and to creating an environment where every employee?has the opportunity to?reach their potential.?

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Canada Life policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact talentacquisitioncanada@canadalife.com.

Canada Life?would like to thank all applicants, however only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted.

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