Quality Engineer II (Mainframe)

Role and work location

Pay details

• The stated pay range is CAD $81,600–$115,200; no salary period is specified.

Quality engineering and test automation

• Lead test automation activities for work of high complexity and act as test lead for small-complexity initiatives.
• Implement test strategies and plans, test designs, automated test cases, and test execution to achieve business outcomes.
• Provide quality engineering leadership, direction, and feedback during development and design.
• Develop optimized test approaches and tooling strategies based on technical solutions.
• Use test data management and reusable automated test data provisioning capabilities.
• Leverage DevOps processes, source code management, service virtualization, monitoring tools, and engineering practices.
• Implement functional and non-functional automation frameworks, develop and execute scripts, and integrate tests into CI/CD/CT pipelines.
• Document end-to-end test solution designs and proactively identify early automation opportunities.
• Collaborate with developers on user stories, acceptance criteria, and definitions of done and ready; apply BDD/TDD principles.
• Lead proof-of-concept evaluations of technologies such as service virtualization, DevOps, BDD, and test data management.

Governance, improvement, and teamwork

• Follow enterprise frameworks and methodologies for quality engineering and ensure practices meet business, internal, external, and regulatory needs.
• Engage stakeholders to shift quality work from finding defects to proactively preventing them.
• Identify continuous improvement and automation opportunities; analyze data and recommend program or practice improvements.
• Review test assets for quality, standards compliance, reusability, and ease of maintenance.
• Monitor service, productivity, and efficiency; implement process and performance improvements.
• Lead or implement remediation plans for performance, risk, and governance issues; manage relationships and escalate nonstandard high-risk activities.
• Keep current with emerging issues, trends, and regulatory requirements, and support a culture of risk management and control.
• Participate as a team member, promote a positive and collaborative work environment, communicate issues promptly, and share quality engineering knowledge.

Compensation context

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of technical solutions and the ability to develop optimized test approaches and tooling strategies.
• Strong knowledge of test data management and reusable automated test data provisioning capabilities.
• Experience engineering and leveraging DevOps tools and processes, source code management, service virtualization, and monitoring tools.
• Ability to implement functional and/or non-functional automation frameworks, including script development and execution.
• Ability to integrate automated tests into continuous integration, delivery, and testing pipelines.
• Ability to apply BDD/TDD principles and collaborate on user stories, acceptance criteria, and definitions of done and ready.
• Ability to analyze data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations about program or practice effectiveness.
• Ability to review test assets for quality, standards compliance, reusability, and maintainability.
• Ability to engage stakeholders and manage risks, governance issues, and enterprise or regulatory alignment.