Technical Advisor, Application Development

2 weeks ago


Ottawa, Canada National Research Council Canada Full time

Help bring research to life and drive your career forward with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Canada's largest research and technology organization.

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Specialist to support our Knowledge, Information and Technology Services Branch. The Quality Assurance Specialist would be someone who shares our core values of Integrity, Excellence, Respect and Creativity.
- Provide expert QA advice to a variety of colleagues (management, clients, developers)
- Establish a QA Definition of Done with appropriate QA processes and procedures as required, leveraging Azure DevOps
- Seek out new ideas and technologies to achieve our QA needs
- Provide technical leadership in developing reusable automation test assets and artifacts, such as browser driver abstraction and UI test frameworks
- Mentor other QA resources

**Screening Criteria**:
**Education**:
Bachelor degree in Computer Science from a recognized University or a Technical College diploma in Computer Science or related field. An equivalent combination of education and direct experience may be considered.

For information on certificates and diplomas issued abroad, please see Degree equivalency

**Experience**:

- Extensive experience writing test plans, test suites and test cases.
- Significant experience with Selenium framework,.NET and C#.
- Significant experience with xml/json data and xml/json deserialization, XPath and CSS selectors.
- Significant experience with Visual Studio unit test projects and related architecture.
- Significant experience developing tests targeting vertical environments.
- Significant experience working with Visual Studio and Azure DevOps/VSTS.

Experience with the Playwright framework would be an asset.

**Condition of Employment**:
Reliability Status

**Language Requirements**:
English

Information on language requirements and self-assessment tests

**Assessment Criteria**:
**Technical Competencies**:

- Solid knowledge of software development methodologies, such as Agile, Scrum and/or LEAN.
- Advanced knowledge of Object Oriented Programming best practices, including interface design, dependency inversion and dependency injection.
- Advanced ability to review business requirements and develop appropriate Test Plans, Test Suites and Test Cases using Microsoft Azure DevOps (or similar).
- Solid ability to create/modify/maintain unit tests using Visual Studio, C# and the Selenium or Playwright framework.
- Solid ability to create/modify/maintain test data using xml or json data files targeting multiple vertical environments.
- Advanced ability to research and analysis quality assurance needs to recommend solutions.

**Behavioural Competencies**:

- Technology support - Communication (Level 2)
- Technology support - Conceptual and analytical ability (Level 3)
- Technology support - Initiative (Level 2)
- Technology support - Results orientation (Level 3)
- Technology support - Teamwork (Level 2)

**Competency Profile(s)**:
**Relocation**:
Relocation assistance will be determined in accordance with the NRC's directives.

**Compensation**:
From $89,548 to $112,660 per annum.

An incumbent occupying a position within the CS Group is currently entitled to receive a terminable allowance of $212 per month.

NRC employees enjoy a wide-range of competitive benefits including comprehensive health and dental plans, pension and insurance plans, vacation and other leave entitlements.

**Notes**:

- A pre-qualified list may be established for similar positions for a one year period.
- Overtime may sometimes be required.
- This position is being advertised internally and externally simultaneously, however first consideration will be given to internal NRC applicants.
- The incumbent must adhere to safe workplace practices at all times.
- We thank all those who apply, however only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Please direct your questions, with the requisition number (19071) to:
Telephone: 343-548-9537

**Closing Date**:21 March 2023 - 23:59 Eastern Time


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