QA Systems Testing Analyst

**QA Systems Testing Analyst**

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The Bank of Canada has a vision to be a leading central bank—dynamic, engaged and trusted—committed to a better Canada. No other employer in the country offers you the unique opportunity to work at the very center of Canada’s economy, in an organization with significant impact on the economic and financial well-being of all Canadians. You will be challenged, energized and motivated to excel in our environment.

Building on the principles that have always guided us - excellence, integrity and respect - we strive to be forward-looking and innovative, to welcome people with diverse perspectives and talents, and to earn trust by living up to our commitments and by clearly explaining the intent of our policies and actions.

With our defined-benefit pension plan, benefits, and high flexibility for work life balance - find out more about why we are annually ranked as one of Canada's top employers: Working Here - Bank of Canada

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**The Team**

Our team is in the early process of automating manual test cases and advancing to the implementation of a DevOps toolchain (CI/CD) capable of scheduling the run of automation test suites and monitoring execution status.

**What you will do**
- Design and implement manual and automation tests for component, integration or system testing in collaboration with business analysts and developers.
- Maintain current regression suites and create new automated tests for new feature work.
- Work in an Agile environment and will provide software testing expertise through coaching and mentoring.
- Suggest new approaches to existing or planned testing that leads to a scalable and reliable automation framework.
- Provide detailed configuration and descriptions for passing and failing tests.
- Ensure quality of routine operations process by monitoring and improving the health of the test automation systems and their integration
- Support our continuous testing practices.
- Perform code review for automated test scripts and troubleshoot issues.
- Collaborate with teams and individuals to both clarify and understand the business needs and technical capabilities.
- Identify manual tests to perform in each functional area, create high level test cases as well as detailed descriptive step by step test cases to improve the overall test coverage.
- Develop deep knowledge of the system and understand the impact of changes to the system.
- Perform scenario-based testing from the business perspective.

**What you need to succeed**
- Experience with or in:

- Automation and DevOps CI/CD tools such as: Git, Jenkins, Maven, etc.
- any programming languages JavaScript (preferred), Java, Python, HTML
- using industry standard tools to develop and maintain automated user acceptance test suites and tying them into the continuous integration process.
- Agile thinking and enjoy working in rapidly changing environments.
- debugging and characterizing defects and inconsistencies.
- cross -browser testing, functional, stress/performance testing of multi-tiered web Applications
- QA methods and best practices such as exploratory testing.
- identifying manual test scenarios for large complex business critical system, creating test cases, executing identified tests, reconciliation test data and test evidence.
- Familiarity with setting up test data as required to reproduce issues and execute positive, negative, edge case automation testing.
- Mastery of common testing tools, technologies, and frameworks, specifically JavaScript and Cypress.

**Assets**
- Background and familiarity testing in a financial, banking, or collateral management environment.
- Experience in:

- developing with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- developing and maintaining performance test scripts from design, to test execution and reporting of results.
- automated performance testing tools like JMeter, Soap UI, or NeoLoad
- Typescript
- Holder of any relevant QA and/or Scrum certifications (SAFe, Agile, etc.)

**Education and experience**
This position requires a minimum of 3 years of proven development experience in test automation and a minimum 5 years of proven experience in end-to-end manual functional testing.

**What you need to know**
- Language requirement: English or French essential
- Priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents
- Security level required: Be eligible to obtain Reliability
- Relocation assistance may be provided, if required
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**Hybrid Work Model **#LI-Hybrid**

The Bank offers work arrangements that provide employees with flexibility, enable high-performing teams, and support an excellent workplace culture. Most employees can telework from home for a substantial part of each month as part of the Bank's hybrid work model, and they are expected on site at t