Quality Assurance Consultant

**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.

We are looking for a
**_Quality Assurance Consultant_**

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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._**

**Role description**

The Quality Assurance Consultant is responsible for collaborating with the Tech. leads, Architecture and Digital Assurance enablement teams towards championing the strategic system planning & prioritization and drives product evolution and scoping efforts.

This role provides thought leadership by acting as a quality engineering lead for a large program or portfolio. This role applies their advanced, specialized knowledge to work on strategic, complex, ambiguous programs that are typically long term with substantial business impact and involves overseeing technical leadership across multiple initiatives. This role leads the work to implement testing strategies that may require the modification of systems, products, requiring significant departures from traditional approaches to develop solutions.

**What you will do**
- Oversee the QA analysis across the business unit or multiple domains/programs
- Perform complex analysis, scoping, estimating and planning
- Champion QA analysis, strategies and quality standards across teams to align with business priorities
- Develop and execute strategies and plans for evolution of the QA discipline
- Champion test-driven approaches across teams, looking for improvement opportunities for regression or automated testing
- Champion organizational change, best practice and improvements across teams, including the effective implementation and adherence to quality assurance practices
- Research, review and adapt new technologies, industry standards and industry-related developments
- Collaborate with Digital Assurance enablement team to adopt and implement enterprise Quality Engineering technical solutions in the projects
- Experience in working Quality Assurance maturity metrics/KPIs and report to senior stakeholders
- Ensure data designs and specifications are in alignment with performance requirements and standards and have end to end traceability

**What you will bring**
- Ability to design and champion practices to manage and simplify work, and use resources efficiently
- Expert knowledge of various software development lifecycle methodologies (eg Waterfall, Iterative, Agile)
- Ability to provide Quality assurance thought leadership and be the champion of new ideas to enhance business and user experience
- Strong working knowledge of how to use tools to automate, perform and deliver including test-driven development and test frameworks
- Expert knowledge in:

- Database systems (eg DB2, MongoDB) and data access methods (eg object-relational mapping, SQL, ETL, API, caching)
- Test management and test automation systems (e.g. Zephyr, Selenium, SoapUI, Postman, Cucumber)
- Setting up onshore and offshore test environments / test beds
- Test data masking, encryption and test data setup
- Extensive experience in:

- Scoping, estimating, planning and work management across multiple competing initiatives
- Complex quality management and troubleshooting ambiguous situations
- Developing effective working relationships with senior management
- Experience with:

- Evaluation of emerging methods to meet team needs
- Coaching testing teams in testing strategies and methods and experience working on an agile team

**Be your best at Canada Life

**_
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._**

**Be your best at 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.

***

Together, as part of a great team, you’ll deliver on our shared purpose to improve the well-being of Canadia