QA Engineer

Requisition ID : 248973

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of application deliverables for Canadian Banking’s Branch Enablement applications.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will :

• Conducts and adjusts testing methods and practices to assess and evolve products.
• Design test approach, Develop Test Strategies and Plans.  Select appropriate test tools.  Align test cases to requirements and user stories.
• In conjunction with the development team, collaborate, design and build automated and manual tests, develop / create test data, construct and execute exploratory, system, regression, migration, back-end, and user acceptance tests, and determine whether to create any complex environments or any major improvements for the automation frameworks.
• Write clear and concise defect reports and work as an empathetic advocate for the customer’s quality experience.  Triage and prioritize defects for remediation, with the Product Owner and development team.
• Conduct exploration testing to find bugs via other testing means and drive testing workshops.
• Wherever possible, conduct functional tests and ensure their readability (clear, succinct, and using common business jargon) as well as tests must be maintainable (built with reusable domain specific testing language components)
• Working experience in Automation frameworks, developing, designing and executing test automation scripts (Selenium, API Tools (Postman), testNG, any one of behavior driven development (BDD) or Test-driven development (TDD frameworks like Karate and Cucumber)
• Thorough experience with data extraction, transformations and conversion testing.
• Ability to produce dashboards and reports for sprints or code releases.
• Analyze industry best practices to recommend improvements to methodology, test environments and workflow to promote an efficient and cost-effective UAT process.
• Collaborate actively with the development team, Product Owners, Business Analyst, and other application development and QA teams.
• Embed with development teams and infuse quality in every phase of the software development lifecycle by providing continuous feedback from QA standpoint regarding standards, user experience, possible performance issues, and future bugs.
• Participate in product design and requirements analysis, work with the team during project planning to accurately estimate work (data creation, test cases / acceptance test design, test execution, automation framework design / improvements, scripting tasks, setup environments, etc) and scope release deliverables (prioritizing defects and bugs).
• Lead end user focused testing activities and inform how product needs to be evolved
• Create and execute acceptance criteria based on requirements, assessing usefulness of test cases and adjusting approach where required
• Troubleshoot when problems arise and contribute to their resolution in a hands-on manner when necessary.
• Ability to come into the Scarborough office 4 days per week.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have :

What's in it for you?

Location(s) :  Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose : "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here . Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.