Quality Assurance Testing Specialist

Requisition ID: 173138 Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture. **The Team** The Wealth Management Systems team is an active collaborator on the Agile project team, the Quality Assurance Testing Specialist 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 with quality. **The Role** Quality Assurance Testing Specialist is responsible for leveraging testing methods and practices to analyze requirements/stories & design testing strategies, infuse with Agile team and develop testing and automation solutions. **Is this role right for you?** - 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, decide where to 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) - Expert knowledge in Automation frameworks, automating test scenarios. (Selenium, testNG, any one of behaviour driven development(BDD) or Test driven development(TDD frameworks like Cucumber), Maven) - Working knowledge of data extraction, transformations and conversion testing and plan, strategize and execute End to End testing cycles - Create and execute acceptance criteria based on requirements, assessing usefulness of test cases and adjusting approach where required **Do you have the skills?** Must Have Skills: - 5+ years of experience in QA testing with 2 years of experience in Test Lead capacity. - Experience in analyzing the testing scope and developing work estimates. - Experience in creating Test Strategies/Test Plans. - 3-5 years of experience in testing Salesforce platform - 2+ years of experience in Automation frameworks and automating test scenarios. (Selenium, testNG, any one of Behavior driven development (BDD) or Test driven development (TDD frameworks like Cucumber), Maven) - Experience working with both Agile methodology and Waterfall SDLC - Good Knowledge of JIRA and confluence - White Box testing following QA principles, practices and methodologies - Good understanding of UAT standards and methodologies Nice to have skills - Good understanding of SF architecture and SOQL (Salesforce Object Query Language) - Database/Backend testing experience (writing and verifying results of medium to high complexity SQL & PL/SQL queries) & creation of functions and stored procedures - Experience writing Unix commands through shell scripting **What’s in it for you?** - We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work - We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success - You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world - We foster an environment of innovation and continuous learning - We care about our people, allowing them to design how they work to deliver amazing results - We offer a competitive total rewards package, including a performance bonus, company matching programs (on pension & profit sharing), and generous vacation 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.