Quality Assurance Testing Specialist (Selenium)

Requisition ID: 173157

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Team

The Wealth Management Systems team is an active collaborator on the Agile project team, the Quality Assurance Testing Specialist is responsible for leading standups, discussions & retrospectives from QA perspective and is expected to use testing best practices to evolve the product solution and ensure working products are delivered with quality.

The Role

Quality Assurance Testing Specialist is responsible for leveraging testing methods and practices to analyze requirements/stories & design testing strategies, infuse with Agile team and develop testing and automation solutions.

Is this role right for you?

• Conduct and adjust testing methods and practices to assess and evolve product
• Design test approach, Develop Test Strategies and Plans. Select appropriate test tools. Align test cases to requirements and user stories.
• In conjunction with the development team, decide where to build automated and manual tests, develop/create test data, construct and execute exploratory, system, regression, migration, back-end, and user acceptance tests, and determine whether to create any complex environments or any major improvements for the automation frameworks.
• Write clear and concise defect reports and work as an empathetic advocate for the customer’s quality experience. Triage and prioritize defects for remediation, with the Product Owner and development team.
• Conduct exploratory testing to find bugs that other testing means would not find during every sprint and drive testing workshops.
• Wherever possible, conduct functional test and ensure their readability (clear, succinct, and using common business jargon) as well as tests must be maintainable (built with reusable domain specific testing language components)
• Expert knowledge in Automation frameworks, automating test scenarios. (Selenium, testNG, any one of behaviour driven development(BDD) or Test driven development(TDD frameworks like Cucumber), Maven)
• Working knowledge of data extraction, transformations and conversion testing and plan, strategize and execute End to End testing cycles
• Create and execute acceptance criteria based on requirements, assessing usefulness of test cases and adjusting approach where required

Do you have the skills?

Must Have Skills:

• Experienced in QA - 5+ years of experience in Functional & Automation with 2 years of experience in Test Lead capacity.
• Experience with Selenium-Java automation framework creation is must.
• Experience with Testing automation Frameworks with : Cucumber, Selenium-Java, Eclipse/Intellij IDE, TestNG, Extent reports, selenium grid, Maven using BDD Framework
• Experience with CI/CD with Jenkins is good to have. Knowledge of version control tools like git / bitbucket is must.
• Good Knowledge of JIRA, confluence
• Experience in analyzing the testing scope and developing work estimates.
• Experience in creating Test Strategies/Test Plans.
• 3 + years working in a true Agile delivery model - BDD, Kanban, Scrum is must

Nice to have skills

• Testing experience within FI and Wealth Management
• Testing with API web services – (SOAP UI or Postman or something similar) is a plus
• Experience in developing SQL queries
• Experience working in Cloud applications
• Experience writing Unix commands through shell scripting

What’s in it for you?

• We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work
• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
• You’ll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world
• We foster an environment of innovation and continuous learning
• We care about our people, allowing them to design how they work to deliver amazing results
• We offer a competitive total rewards package, including a performance bonus, company matching programs (on pension & profit sharing), and generous vacation

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.