Quality Assurance Testing Specialist

Requisition ID : 249868

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

The role :

Quality Assurance Testing Specialist is responsible for leveraging testing methodologies and practices, analyze requirements / stories, design testing strategies, coordinate across mutliple streams and applications, work with Agile teams to develop testing and automation solutions.

As an active collaborator across different project teams, the incumbent is responsible for leading standups, discussions & retrospectives from QA perspective and is expected to use testing best practices to evolve the product solution and ensure working products are delivered seamlessly with quality and within budget and timelines

What will you do?

• Conduct and adjust testing methods and practices to assess and evolve product
• 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 exploratory testing to find bugs that other testing means would not find during every sprint and drive testing workshops.
• Wherever possible, conduct functional test 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 knowledge in Automation frameworks, automating test scenarios. (Selenium, testNG, any one of behaviour driven development (BDD) or Test driven development (TDD frameworks like Cucumber)
• Thorough experience with data extraction, transformations and conversion testing
• Ability to produce dashboards and reports for sprints or code releases. Reporting frameworks like Allure, Extent reports
• 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, B / As
• 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, 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.

What do you need to succeed?

Education

Must Have Skills :

Experience with functional / end to to end testing methodologies

Soft- Skills :

Competencies

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.