Export Development Canada (EDC) is a financial Crown corporation dedicated to helping Canadian businesses make an impact at home and abroad. EDC offers financial products and knowledge to help Canadian businesses confidently enter new markets, reduce financial risk, and grow their business.
When you join our team, you’ll be helping Canadian businesses learn the endless possibilities that open to them through export and help bring their vision, passion, and innovation to the world. Your knowledge and expertise will support more than 25,000 Canadian businesses and their customers in as many as 200 markets worldwide. You’ll work amongst the best and brightest in an inclusive, collaborative environment that fosters professional development and success. And you’ll know that you’re making an impact every day – for businesses, for Canada and for the people you work with.
Are you ready to make an impact? Join EDC, recognized as a Top 100 and Top Family-Friendly Employer, as we take on the risk so Canadian businesses can take on the world.
Team & Job Overview
The Digital & Technology Solutions (DTS) group under the leadership of the Chief Information Officer was established in 2023 with the mission of empowering our customers and colleagues to take on the world, by seamlessly delivering secure and reliable digital experiences. Digital & Technology Solutions has set out to achieve the following objectives for EDC:
- Define, execute, and sustain the integrated technology target state, target data model and technology operations required to enable EDC’s 2030 business transformation.
- Establish and manage the rolling 3 Year Digital Roadmap that sequences the technology outcomes required to achieve the technology target state and facilitate its execution across all domains in the organization.
- Keep pace with industry trends and emerging technologies, ensuring EDC has access to the digital technology tools it needs to stay relevant in the market and grow Canadian global trade.
- Lead and ensure integrated digital, data, infrastructure, and cybersecurity implementations to create excellent customer, user, and employee experiences.
The successful candidate will be a member of the Risk and Corporate Platforms Squad within the Digital Strategy and Delivery Excellence group.
The Senior SQA Analyst role is responsible for directing and managing the entire testing lifecycle for one or more complex cross functional projects affecting multiple interfaces and/or applications, as well as providing leadership in the areas of test automation, tools, and processes. The individual in this role will be responsible for test strategy development and execution, researching testing automation tools, deploying new test frameworks, and managing the development and execution of testing deliverables for IT projects.
The Senior SQA Analyst will interface with various project teams to assess testing needs for the project, analyze and interpret test results, establish and review metrics and communicate results and recommendations to a technical and business audience. This role will provide mentorship on testing concepts and implementation, best practices and opportunities for test practice improvements within the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate and devise software testing project deliverables, including test strategy, detailed test plan/approach, test cases, test results summary and defect management tracking and resolution
- Define test automation strategy, taking into account project and technical constraints
- Coordinate or develop test requirements as required and perform gap analysis between technical design specifications and business requirements
- Provide feedback on feature specification and design based on customer requirements
- Review product design documentation to ensure that requirements stated are correct, unambiguous, and verifiable
- Recommend design improvements or corrections throughout the development process
- Work closely with the Product Owners and Scrum Masters to estimate and plan project testing schedules, workload, and testing resource capacity
- Define test methods and create test plans for new or updated software projects to determine if the software will perform accurately and reliably according to documented requirements as well as established standards under both normal and abnormal conditions
- Generate and execute test cases to ensure that all functional requirements of a system are captured during the product design phase
- Conduct various levels of testing including but not limited to functional, integration, regression, security and performance testing.
- Create and execute automated tests
- Perform defect reporting and provide product feedback based on customer requirements
- Provide team leadership; and train, coach and mentor other members of test teams
- Maintain effective communication with the project software developers and business analysts on project limitation, capability, and potential performance impacts
- Interact and adapt to Client and Partner requirements, managing changes to the test regime as necessary
Screening Criteria
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Management information systems or in a related field
- Minimum 7 years’ experience in Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) and in leading QA initiatives
- Advanced knowledge of software testing principles and methodologies
- Extensive knowledge and practical experience in industry-standard testing tools, techniques, and methodologies
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage both business and technical audiences
- Experience in writing maintainable automated scripts
- Strong knowledge of test automation best practices
- Experience in testing customized COTS and SaaS applications
Assets
- Testing experience in Finance and/or Risk Management applications
- Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines
- Experience in testing middleware applications
- Experience with using a defect tracking system
- Good understanding of Agile and DevSecOps principles and practices
- Knowledge of object-oriented programming
- Proven ability to build strong relationships with clients and team members
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Bilingual in both official languages (French and English)
Hybrid
Compensation Details
- Software Engineer 18: Salaries typically range from $94,664 to $126,219 annually, based on qualifications and experiences plus a performance-based incentive
Location
- Export Development Canada is a hybrid work environment.
- This role may be performed from EDC’s headquarters in Ottawa.
- Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates.
EDC's Commitment to Employment Equity
- EDC is committed to employment equity and achieving a diverse workforce. EDC actively encourages applications from women, Aboriginal peoples, visible minorities, persons with disabilities and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community. If selected for an interview, please advise us if you need any special accommodation.
Posting Date
Feb 6, 2025, 1:00:47 PM
Primary Location:
Ontario-Ottawa
Job Type
Permanent
Schedule
Full-time
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