Quality Assurance Specialist

**Job Description**:
**We are Canada Life**

Being a part of Canada Life means you have a voice. This is a place where your unique background, perspectives and talents are valued, and shape our future success.

You can be your best here. You’re part of a diverse and inclusive workplace where your career and well-being are championed. You’ll have the opportunity to excel in your way, finding new and better ways to deliver exceptional customer and advisor experiences.

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Together, as part of a great team, you’ll deliver on our shared purpose to improve the well-being of Canadians. It’s our driving force. Become part of a strong and successful company that’s trusted by millions of Canadians to do the right thing.

Be your best at Canada Life.

Technology redefines the way we work and deliver to meet business needs and elevate the customer experience. You’ll be part of an organization that is embracing modern technology, innovation and agile ways of working.

Our Canada Technology team is a strategic partner in our business - with an ambition to be a forward-thinking, agile technology organization delivering secure, resilient and leading solutions that support Canada Life and the well-being of millions of Canadians.

We are looking for a**_ Quality Assurance Specialist._**

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Given the size and scope of our organization, we have the flexibility for this position to be located in the following head office locations: Toronto, London, Winnipeg._**

The Quality Assurance Specialist defines and develops test product strategies and plans and performs actions based on those plans, ensuring quality standards and delivery timelines are met. The Quality Assurance Specialist will contribute and coordinate testing activities as well as troubleshoot and solves testing problems effectively and efficiently.

This role applies broad knowledge to difficult work and supports less experienced employees in their development. This role is accountable for proficient and independent quality assurance planning, managing relationships and collaboration with stakeholders.

**What you will do**
- Work in partnership with IC Tech teams and/or business partners and vendors to deliver on business needs
- Participate in planning and estimating to support project or product planning
- Provide direction on requirements and help to align specifications to system design, business function or process and testing standards and solutions
- Define and document test strategy and plans in accordance with ADM (Application Delivery Methodology)
- Setup and configure environments with test data for test case execution
- Design, create and execute functional test cases
- Reporting on system defects including analyzing and tracking using Zephyr
- Create and maintain functional test cases as inputs to build automated test scripts and preserve integrity of Automated test bed in support of our journey to CI/CD
- Ensure compliance of software product with corporate risk profile, policies and standards and organizational governance processes

**What you will bring**
- 2+ years of experience with Devops, CI/CD tools
- Experience with Agile practices and tools such as JIRA and Confluence
- Strong working knowledge of testing processes, tools and frameworks
- Wealth investment product knowledge (Mutual Funds, Seg Funds and GICs) would be an asset
- Knowledge of Microsoft Windows operating system and/or mainframe environment
- Proven experience with:

- Database systems (e.g. DB2, MongoDB) and data access methods (e.g. object-relational mapping, SQL, ETL, API, caching)
- Test management (Zephyr) and test automation systems (e.g. Selenium, SoapUI, Postman, Cucumber)
- Must be self-motivated, organized and able to multi-task in an environment of ever-changing processes and priorities
- Adaptable to organizational change, best practice and improvements
- University or College education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, Commerce, Business Administration or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience or equivalent
- Active pursuit of related industry certifications is an asset

**Be your best at Canada Life

**We are one of Canada's top 100 employers**
- Canada Life serves the financial security needs of more than 13 million people across Canada, with additional operations in Europe and the United States. As members of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies, we’re one of Canada’s leading insurers with interests in life insurance, health insurance, investment and retirement savings. We offer a broad portfolio of financial and benefit plan solutions for individuals, families, businesses and organizations._
- We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we live, and to creating an env