Test Automation Engineer- Neurodiversity Hiring Initiative

Specialisterne is recruiting!

Specialisterne works with businesses in Canada and the US to hire neurodivergent employees. We connect qualified neurodivergent candidates to employment opportunities in numerous industries and sectors.

Employees with a different perspective or an alternative communication style contribute to dynamic, innovative and productive workplaces. Yet because of standard recruitment processes and management practices, many autistic or neurodivergent job seekers face systemic barriers to accessing and maintaining employment. Our process is designed to tackle these barriers, creating opportunities for job seekers to showcase their skills and abilities.

Specialisterne Canada is proud to partner with Accenture on a Neurodiversity Hiring Initiative.

Accenture's purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity and their commitment to their people, clients and communities is to accelerate equality for all. Their purpose and their commitment drives their innovation agenda, helps them deliver 360 value, and ensures they act as a responsible business leader. It enables them to attract, develop, inspire and reward top talent. And it creates an environment that unleashes innovation, allows their people to perform at their very best and underpins a culture in which everyone feels they have an equal opportunity to belong and build a career.

Descriptions of the roles are provided below. Applications must be submitted in full no later than April 9th at 11:00pm EST.

Role Description

Accenture

Test Automation Engineer

Full-Time

Target Start Date: May 2023

Toronto or Ottawa (East Coast Hours)

Most of the time the roles are remote, however, candidates must be willing to travel to client sites when necessary.

40 hours per week

Core Tasks:

• Report defects in test management tool like JIRA
• Integrate within the product delivery team and review QA applicable User Stories to identify test cases which are candidates for automation
• Retest defects once fixed
• Work with CI/CD tools to execute automation test suite and review results
• Create test automation scripts for identified test cases leveraging the existing automation test framework
• Review functional requirements / user stories and create manual test cases for those
• Execute manual test cases
• Create automation Smoke/Regression test suite

Qualifications

General Skills and Abilities

• Collaboration Skills - Communicate and collaborate with team members on ideas, plan and results of assigned tasks/deliverables and/or issues encountered while performing the tasks.
• Problem-Solving Skills - Identification and/or analysis of issues encountered while performing tasks and providing recommendation or alternative solution
• Organization Skills - Ability to organize assigned tasks, schedule, meetings and reporting status to team members and direct Team Lead
• Time Management - Complete daily or weekly tasks or deliverables assigned by the direct Team Lead

Digital and Technical Skills

• Between Intermediate and Expert
• Expert - I can do this in exceptionally difficult situations with no guidance and I can be a key resource for others.
• How Specialisterne defines skill levels:
• Between Basic and Intermediate
• Intermediate - I can do this in most situations, with occasional guidance
• Basic - I can do this in simple situations with close or extensive guidance
• Basic skill level programming in any language (e.g., Java, Javascript, C#, Python, etc.)

Education/Knowledge

• General Testing Certifications: CSTE
• Automation: Tosca, Worksoft and other automation tools
• 2 year diploma in computer science, Information Technology or related field and/or equivalent on the job experience
• Cloud Certification: Azure, AWS, GCP
• Basic understanding of Requirements Management
• Basic understanding of CI/CD tools
• The following are nice to haves, but are not required:

Experience (Professional, Academic, Personal)

• Experience with Defect/Ticket Management
• Experience in testing systems and applications
• Experience in Test Management tools (HP-ALM, JIRA, TFS)
• The following are nice to haves, but are not required:
• Experience with Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience in executing test cases, scripts
• Experience in writing test cases, scripts
• Experience withMicrosoft Tools (Word, Spreadsheets, Presentation)
• Experience in using Test Management tools

Additional Information

Here’s how frequently the following types of communication and interaction are required to perform the job:

• Video communication: As Required
• Interacting with customers: Less Likely
• Oral communication: Daily
• Interacting with supervisors: Daily
• Email communication: Daily
• Instant messaging: Constantly
• Training or teaching others: As Required
• Telephone Communication: Daily
• Interacting with peers: As Required

Here’s what can be stressful on the job:

• Potentially changes in scope, workload, or schedule
• Workload can increase during busy periods
• Periodically attending status meetings which involved meeting the team

Here’s what is attractive about the company/role:

• Ability to grow in a technology career
• Capable and helpful co-workers
• The opportunity to work for one of the biggest companies in the world

Workplace Support:

• All new hires continue to liaise with a Specialisterne Workplace Support Manager for their first twelve weeks on the job
• Specialisterne and our employer partners are committed to providing inclusive onboarding experiences and supporting new employees as they learn on the job

The Recruitment Process

To be considered for this position, you won’t be interviewed by the employer. Instead, here’s how it works:

• Meet with a Specialisterne facilitator. After you have completed your Candidate Profile, a Specialisterne facilitator will book a thirty minute meeting with you to discuss your application.
• Create a job-specific Candidate Profile: If you meet the qualifications of the role, our talent acquisition team will give you access to your Candidate Profile. You will use it to answer job specific questions and/or complete a work sample exercise to showcase your skills for this role. This is what employers will use instead of using your resume or interviewing you.
• Join our talent pool (if you haven’t already): Complete a talent pool questionnaire and a “Workplace Skills Inventory” (about your situation, job skills and how you work best), and a pre-employment assessment (this is an additional way to show your job skills/abilities instead of interviewing).
• Apply to the job. This will involve completing an online questionnaire as well as submitting their resume to Specialisterne USA.

Next steps:

• Then, selected candidates will have an opportunity to meet with the hiring manager so that they have an opportunity to learn a little more about you, and you have an opportunity to learn a little more about the job
• The employer will review compatible Candidate Profiles to select the best candidate for their job.

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