Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Description

Aviso Wealth:

At Aviso Wealth, we are dedicated to improving the financial well-being of Canadians. As a leading wealth management organization, we are committed to leadership, innovation, partnership, responsibility, and community. Working with talented and energetic professionals who exemplify our values every day, you will quickly notice that our people and dynamic ‘oneaviso’ culture sets us apart. If you are looking for interesting and challenging work, at a company committed to its people, find out more about what Aviso Wealth has to offer at www.aviso.ca.

The Opportunity:

We’re looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Information Technology team.

This role can be mostly remote, however we will on occasion require you to come onsite to our office at 151 Yonge St, Toronto, ON.

Reporting to the Manager, Quality Assurance the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for ensuring the quality of software products and services throughout the software development life cycle in a DevOps environment by ensuring they meet or exceed the quality standards set by the company. The candidate will work closely with the DevOps team to ensure that the software development process follows established quality procedures and practices.

Who you are:

• Execution – You are committed to achieving your goals and to succeed. This includes focusing on “getting things done”, as well as recognizing and taking advantage of opportunities as they arise. You are consistently looking for ways to improve your personal best and see value in continuous improvement. You take accountability for your actions and learn from mistakes
• Service – You consider both internal and external stakeholders and demonstrate intent of understanding and putting the clients’ needs first. You advocate service excellence and work to deliver solutions that meet the needs. You proactively develop strategic partnerships that allow Aviso Wealth to become a trusted advisor and partner
• Collaboration – You work collaboratively with others with the common goal of driving positive results. Making meaningful contributions to your team to achieve organizational goals is a priority. You proactively encourage collaboration, build trust and inclusion, and work to establish effective relationships both inside and outside of the organization

What your day looks like:

• Identify and report software defects and work with the DevOps team to resolve them.
• Design test automation architecture & build the framework for cloud based microservices in Azure cloud platform with blue-green deployment strategy.
• Collaborate with DevOps team members to establish and maintain software quality standards and best practices.
• Promotes best practice of Test Driven Development, Business Driven Development (TDD/BDD) and quality shift left initiatives with whitebox, greybox testing.
• Ensure that software products and services meet regulatory compliance standards
• Provides technical leadership, technology guidance and mentor others on test automation design/implementation best practices for microservices & cloud native applications
• Create and execute test plans and test cases to ensure the quality of software products and services.
• Review software design specifications, code, and test plans to ensure they meet quality standards.

Requirements

Your experience and skills:

• Good understanding of agile methodologies and ability to work in an agile environment
• Experience with DevOps tools and practices, including continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), infrastructure as code (IaC), and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, technical diploma, or other applicable software development work experience
• Understanding of Azure IaaS, PaaS and Container based deployment models, configuration, and migration experience (including Azure Container instances and Kubernetes)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and diagnose issues that arise during the software development process
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with various levels of management, staff, and external clients
• Experience in working with test management tools like JIRA, TestRail, or Zephyr
• Proven experience as a Quality Engineer in a DevOps environment with implementation of CI-CT-CD pipeline for various deployment patterns in cloud
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and business stakeholders
• Proficiency in test automation tools and frameworks, such as Selenium, Appium, and JUnit.
• Hands-on experience with designing & building automated testing tools and frameworks
• 5+ years of computer programming experience, preferably in Java- Python

Benefits

Why Aviso Wealth?

At Aviso Wealth, you will find a dynamic and inclusive culture that rewards innovation and celebrates success.

Here are a few things that set us apart:

• Commitment to the continuous improvement of our staff through learning & development and an education assistance program
• Generous vacation time, fitness benefit, parental leave top-up options
• Matching contributions to our retirement program
• Excellent health, dental and insurance benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees
• Competitive compensation package that rewards and recognizes individual contributions
• Regular social events to foster teamwork

Equal Employment Opportunity

Aviso Wealth welcomes and encourages applications from all qualified individuals including persons with disabilities. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs in all stages of the hiring process.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

No recruiters or agencies, please.

Company Overview:

Aviso Wealth powers businesses that empower investors. We are a national, integrated financial services company, with approximately $110 billion in assets under administration and management. Aviso Wealth is owned by Credit Union Centrals, Co-operators / CUMIS and Desjardins. Our mutual funds dealer, securities brokerage, and insurance dealer support thousands of financial advisors at credit unions across Canada. Our award-winning online brokerage, Qtrade Direct Investing, and our digital advice platform, Qtrade Guided Portfolios, give Canadians flexible choices for building their wealth. Our asset manager, NEI Investments, offers a comprehensive lineup of responsible investment funds and portfolios, which are available through a national network of advisors. Aviso Wealth also provides custodial services and introducing broker services to independent financial organizations, including banks, trust companies, insurance companies, investment dealers, portfolio managers and financial planning firms. We have operations in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal with a regional office in Winnipeg. More information about Aviso Wealth is available at www.aviso.ca.