Service Virtualization Lead

**Job Description**:
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Be your best at Canada Life.

We are looking for a
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**_Service Virtualization Lead_**

**What you will do**
- Plan, facilitate and coordinate all service virtualization activities from inception through completion of entire systems development lifecycle of multiple projects, including estimation, Enterprise strategy, scheduling, status tracking, reporting, and issue and risk mitigating responsibilities
- Organize service virtualization team members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments, and objectives. Act as a point of contact to company’s project management
- Engineer the SV solution that best meets the client’s needs and assist with the implementation of the desired solution
- Analyze enterprise systems and technology stacks to determine service virtualization requirements, use cases and design alternatives
- Perform prototyping and evaluation of solution alternatives and make recommendations to business and technical stakeholders
- Design, build, maintain and manage virtual services leveraging DevTest Solutions platform
- Install, configure and maintain virtual service environments
- Effectively troubleshoot technical integrated solution implementation issues
- As a technical lead contribute product and solution expertise and provide project planning support as required to deliver a successful customer engagement
- Serve as a mentor to other team members who are actively engaged as part of the project team on assigned client engagements
- Help build the knowledge base in the SV communities - including lessons learned, best practices, tools, and methods and learning events
- Work towards improvement of formal service virtualization processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices
- Drive the creation of next generation testing processes, CI, release techniques and test infrastructure to improve on testing and to increase the speed of release cycles
- Manage schedules and quality by overseeing service virtualization deliverables. Identify need for change, determine course of action and revise as appropriate
- Oversee the ongoing review of service virtualization status; identify risks. Develop, recommend, and implement risk mitigation solutions and implement as appropriate
- Provide metrics to the projects leadership and support the life cycle of the change requests

**What you will bring**
- Bachelor Computer Science / Software Engineering or equivalent degree required
- Minimum 10+ years of demonstrated experience in IT environments
- Minimum 7+ years experience leading Service Virtualization capabilities
- Strong knowledge of all stages of software quality assurance like black box, gray box, white box testing, requirements analysis, test planning, reporting/control and root cause analysis
- Strong understanding of system, integration, regression and user acceptance testing, familiarity with testing tools to include functional automation tools and test case management and defect management tools
- In depth experience in Enterprise Technologies including SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), API Integration, Eventing, Web Services
- Solid knowledge of the installation and configuration of the service virtualization tools (preferably CA DevTest tool)
- Hands on experience with OO programming languages (JAVA preferred) and scripting (Java, Javascript, Beanshell).
- Working experience in SDLC methodologies like Agile/Scrum and waterfall
- Good understanding of best practices around CI/CD pipeline and Continuous Delivery Practices and Tools
- Quality Assurance experience including experience managing and building test processes and frameworks; architecting, designing and delivering QA solutions
- Knowledge and Experience in Mainframe Systems an asset
- Knowledge in DevOps Tools is desirable (eg: Chef, Docker, Jenkins, Bamboo, etc)
- Good knowledge of Testing Automation
- Working knowledge of SOA, SOA Testing, APIs and Microservices
- Working knowledge of MOM and Eventing platforms such as MQ Series, Kafka/Confluent
- Knowledge of Cloud Computing technologies/concepts
- Effective communication skills and self-driver

**Be your best at Canada Life

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