Lead Quality Engineer, Technology & Operations

Company Description

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney.

CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:

• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments’ important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Global career development opportunities
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here’s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a hands-on Lead Quality Engineer to develop and lead quality testing and automation strategy for data products and platforms. The ideal candidate should have extensive hands-on experience in building quality standards and strategy across the team by defining and implementing detailed, comprehensive automated test strategy and leading the day-to-day testing. Ensuring that our company's products and services meet or exceed customer expectations for quality. This includes developing and implementing quality assurance processes, conducting audits and inspections, and working closely with other departments to ensure that quality is maintained throughout the product lifecycle.

Job Responsibilities:

• Analyze test results, identify defects, and work with development teams to resolve issues.
• Develop and maintain quality metrics and KPI’s to track performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Participate in product design and development to ensure that quality is built in from the beginning.
• Collaborate with other departments to identify and resolve quality issues.
• Mentor and coach team members to improve their technical skills and knowledge of quality assurance best practices.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in quality assurance and apply them to improve product or service quality.
• Participate in end-to-end development life cycle – requirements, analysis, development, testing, and deployment.
• Develop and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts to improve efficiency and test coverage.
• Ensure compliance with relevant quality standards, regulations, and best practices.
• Investigate customer complaints and implement corrective actions as needed.
• Define and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts to ensure that products or services meet quality standards.
• Monitor and report on product or service quality metrics to drive continuous improvement.
• Develop and implement quality assurance strategies, processes, and procedures to ensure that products or services meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Conduct audits and inspections to ensure compliance with quality standards and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with development, product management, and other cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize quality issues and drive resolution.
• Lead quality engineers responsible for testing and verifying software products or services.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience in test automation, test execution of test plans, text cases and reporting test results.
• Hands-on experience in test planning – identifying test objectives, test cases, test data and test environment.
• Hands-on experience writing clean, reusable, and efficient Python code on AWS cloud.
• Experience in big data technologies like EMR, SPARK, HIVE
• 7+ years of experience in Quality
• Hands-on experience with test automation tools like Playwright, Selenium, Appium, TestComplete, Robot Framework, etc.
• Experience with core AWS technologies such as EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling, S3, EFS, Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, Cloudwatch, VPC, Route 53, ACM.
• Strong problem-solving skills with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in defect management must be able to identify, report and track defects effectively.
• Demonstrated ability to easily deal with both abstract and concrete concepts and be able to reconcile them for the appropriate audience and context preferred.
• Experience coding in Python and Jupyter Notebook on AWS.
• Proficiency in Python libraries like pyspark, pandas, Boto3, matplotlib, Plotly/Dash, etc.
• Demonstrate strong facilitation, negotiation, interpersonal, and collaboration skills
• Proficient in team communications must be able to communicate effectively with development teams, project managers, and other stakeholders. They must be able to explain test results, provide feedback, and collaborate with others to ensure high-quality software products.
• Quickly understand organizational dynamics and management priorities, and to be able to work effectively in a fast paced, results driven company.
• University degree in Engineering or Computer Science preferred.
• Worked with front-end frameworks like React, Angular.
• Hand-on experience with test management tools like Zephyr, qTest, TestRail, etc.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Investment Bank experience.
• Experience with other cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure.
• Experience with Cloud based data and analytics platforms, warehouses (Redshift/Spectrum, Databricks, Snowflake), OLAP systems (Clickhouse, Druid), including a mix of relational, non-relational, streaming and event-based architectures.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• AWS Certifications.
• Experience with BI tools like Tableau, AWS QuickSight.
• Understanding of agile development methodologies.
• Understanding of web development technologies including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, Jenkins, Sonarcube, Github actions, Gitflow

Additional Information

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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.

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

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.

Disclaimer:

CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered. CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.

Mandatory Vaccine Policy

All employees in the Toronto, Sydney and Hong Kong offices will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations to this policy will be made for medical or other protected grounds. Please contact us to discuss any accommodation needs.