Lead, Quality Assurance Analyst

at  CGI

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Our CGI-BC team has an opening for a QA Analyst Lead who will lead the delivery of exceptional Quality Assurance services to our clients. This team collaborates to implement functional and automated testing processes as part of a standard quality management practice. Successful candidates will have a keen eye for quality and an explicit understanding of QA methodologies and continuous process improvement.
Your experience includes a career rooted in Quality Management, Test design and planning, QA Test automation, Quality Assurance and a history of teaming with business analysts, software developers and business experts. Your familiarity of Agile Software Development will tie into an IP/methodology of integrating functional and automated testing into the software development and testing life cycles.

The QA Analyst Lead has experience previously leading a QA team. The Team’s you have led can write code with skill and intuitiveness, designing and developing complex Test scenarios and cases with automation software. Automated Test suites would include functional or non-functional test types and deploy across multiple systems. They have the experience to propose the right programming languages and the most suitable tools:

• 7+ years of strong, demonstrable experience working as a Quality engineer a project environment
• Thorough understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle, and processes with demonstrated experience leading a team executing under a quality assurance methodology
• Can rapidly automate tests, as well as perform extensive QA business analysis QA testing and test strategies
• Familiarity with streaming platforms (real-time data on a massive scale, like Confluent Kafka)
• Experience working with test-driven development (TDD) or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) frameworks/methodologies (SpecFlow, Serenity

Technical skills:

• BDD (Cucumber, Cucumber-JVM, Cucumber.js, Gherkin)
• Test management tools (JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, HP QC etc.)
• UI Test Automation (Selenium)
• REST API test automation (REST Assured, SOAP UI etc.)
• Database (SQL – writing basic queries to validate data etc.)
• Test scenarios and test case writin

Education and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent, and/or strong in computer science fundamentals of algorithm design, programming constructs, problem-solving, US principles, etc.
• Certifications: ITIL 4, ITSQB CTAL with Agile, Automation and/or Quality Management, Certified SAFe practitione

YOUR FUTURE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely with the business to understand the requirements and plan for comprehensive test strategies.
• Lead a team of QA analysts and SDETs to write and execute test plans, ensuring thorough coverage of functional and non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define test objectives, scope, and timelines.
• coordinate release management operations, with traditional quality gates and DevOps CI/CD tooling, test automation, code review, Smoke tests, improving the usability of CI/CD pipelines and ISO industry standards of practice
• Analyze test results, identify root causes of issues, provide recommendations for optimization, and run defect remediations
• Recommend prioritization of issues with the team, for future and current development while honoring the Business vision, milestones, and objectives
• Maintain clear, consistent reporting and communication styles that are adaptable to your audience, respecting their need for information that addresses current and future business requirements.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE

The QA Analyst Lead has experience previously leading a QA team. The Team’s you have led can write code with skill and intuitiveness, designing and developing complex Test scenarios and cases with automation software. Automated Test suites would include functional or non-functional test types and deploy across multiple systems. They have the experience to propose the right programming languages and the most suitable tools:

• 7+ years of strong, demonstrable experience working as a Quality engineer a project environment
• Thorough understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle, and processes with demonstrated experience leading a team executing under a quality assurance methodology
• Can rapidly automate tests, as well as perform extensive QA business analysis QA testing and test strategies
• Familiarity with streaming platforms (real-time data on a massive scale, like Confluent Kafka)
• Experience working with test-driven development (TDD) or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) frameworks/methodologies (SpecFlow, Serenity)

Technical skills:

• BDD (Cucumber, Cucumber-JVM, Cucumber.js, Gherkin)
• Test management tools (JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, HP QC etc.)
• UI Test Automation (Selenium)
• REST API test automation (REST Assured, SOAP UI etc.)
• Database (SQL – writing basic queries to validate data etc.)
• Test scenarios and test case writing

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge of quality engineering and the deployment of solutions for retail back-office systems and applications that support Planning, Merchandising, Master Data Management, Analytics & Data science to assist in product creation
• Scripting (Shell, Python, Java)
• Practical use of cloud technologies such as AWS and Azure
• Programming (Java or .NET)
• Document management (Confluence, Share point etc.)
• Cloud deployment tools (AWS, Azure or GCP – Basic knowledge of EC2, CloudFormation etc.)
• Cloud data management (AWS S3, RDS etc.)
• DevOps (CI/CD pipeline basics using Jenkins

Education and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent, and/or strong in computer science fundamentals of algorithm design, programming constructs, problem-solving, US principles, etc.
• Certifications: ITIL 4, ITSQB CTAL with Agile, Automation and/or Quality Management, Certified SAFe practitioner

CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors including but not limited to skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licensure and certifications. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range in British Columbia is $65,000 - $115,000.