Client Details

A leading Canadian Insurance company.

Description

• Drive the implementation, growth and adoption of test automation across enterprise
• Drive an Automation First mandate in all phases of testing
• Define and improve quality engineering and automation policies and procedures
• Design, measure, report, and continuously improve automation and system performance metrics
• Experience managing capital and operational budgets, with proven cost management achievements
• Collaborate with functional and development teams to develop performance engineering discipline and lead performance testing effort across lines of business
• Support the team to manage the various environments required for testing and production launches for program and projects across Insurance companies
• Support the release planning leads to diligently manage intake and collaborate with stakeholders to plan deployments
• Design systems to support continuous delivery and adapt test environment management to support on-demand, self-service automation
• Develop technology roadmap for automation, performance testing and release management tools
• Partner with system and business leaders to understand their quality needs and incorporate that into roadmap
• Coach and mentor team members to enable them to excel in their roles and support engagement activities

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferably in engineering, computer science, or related practice
• Certification in top automation tools and courses an asset
• Project Management certification an asset
• Minimum of 8 years progressive work experience in information technology
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in applications testing, quality assurance, quality engineering, performance testing and environment management
• Minimum of 2 years of people leadership, project management and delivery experience within the insurance industry
• Experience with both functional and non-functional (load, performance, failure, etc.) test design & execution
• Strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle and Agile Scrum development methodology and in leading Agile Scrum QA teams
• Understanding of enterprise DevOps
• Strong understanding of non-functional behaviors that include performance, scalability / resource utilization, resiliency & security, high availability
• Experience leading test automation programs desired
• Knowledge and experience with testing & automation tools
• Knowledge and experience in DevOps, SQL, O/S troubleshooting and tooling (Jira, Confluence, LoadRunner, Selenium, Ranorex, Jenkins) desired
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