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.

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 Consultant_**

**Role description**

The Quality Assurance Consultant is responsible for collaborating with the Architecture team 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

**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)
- 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)
- Extensive experience in:

- Scoping, estimating, 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

**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 environment where every employee _
- has the opportunity to_
- reach their potential._

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Canada Life would like to thank all applicants, however only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted_