Senior Quality Engineer, Real Assets, Alternative Investment Technology

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you join CPP Investments, you are joining one of the world's most admired and respected institutional investors. As a professional investment management organization, CPP Investments invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure its financial sustainability for generations of working and retired Canadians.

CPP Investments invests across regions and asset classes to build a globally diversified portfolio. It holds assets in public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income, and the CPP Fund is projected to reach $3.6 trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Sydney.

CPP Investments successfully attracts, selects, and retains talented individuals from top-tier institutions worldwide. Join our team for access to:

• Stimulating work in a fast-paced and intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• A hybrid-flexible work environment with an emphasis on in-person collaboration
• A culture rooted in principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance
• An organization with an important social purpose that positively impacts lives

If you have a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach work with the highest integrity, invest your career here. 

As a Senior Quality Engineer in the Real Asset Technology team, you will develop quality standards and strategies across the team by defining and implementing automated test strategies and leading aspects of the day-to-day testing. You will drive engineering excellence within your team and influence the same across the Technology & Data department. You will also support development and implementation, audits, and inspections; working closely with other departments to ensure that quality is maintained throughout the product lifecycle.

Accountabilities:

• Identify and lead the implementation of QE industry best practices, test strategies & processes to support continuous improvement and efficiencies in the overall QE process and ensure products meet or exceed expectations.
• Drive a shift-left approach to software validation, guiding the team to apply automation and coaching/coordinating across the team to drive improvement
• Develop and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts to improve efficiency and test coverage.
• Participate in product design and development to ensure that quality is built in from the beginning.
• Monitor the effectiveness of test automation and suggest improvements through insights gained via analysis at various stages of test automation to ensure stability, efficiency, and scalability.
• Develop and maintain quality metrics and KPI's to track performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Define and execute test plans, test cases/scripts, identify defects, analyze test results and partner with developers to ensure that products or services meet quality standards.
• Foster collaboration and mentorship promoting a culture of feedback, learning and professional growth 
• Maintain strong relationships with business partners, peer IT teams and vendor partners. 

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science). 
• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• 4+ years demonstrated experience coding in Python and writing SQL queries, and a passion to keep up to date in technology.
• Experience automating testing for cloud-native applications is an asset.
• Experience with QE processes and methodologies, automated and manual test processes, test planning, test cases design, scripting, execution, automated test tools, regression testing. 
• Experience interacting with and coordinating test activities amongst multiple teams and ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. 

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At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability.

We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process. 

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In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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