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About the Job

Our client has a requirement for a QA Lead / Test Coordinator for a six month contract opportunity.  The position is located in Toronto.

What makes this Special

Our client is one of the largest Banks in North America. With exponential growth and millions of customers and clients who are served through our various businesses: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, and Wholesale Banking. Being part of this company is being part of a better Canadian service.

Role

We are looking for a QA Lead/Test Coordinator for Central Counterparty Solutions project. This candidate would need to have at least 7-10 years in QA testing or software development process and has 3-5 years experience as a QA Lead, developing test strategies and schedules. As a hands-on QA Lead / Test Coordinator, the candidate would be working collaboratively with up to 9 testers and working with different stakeholders with no direct reporting responsibility.
Successful candidate would have to have strong business knowledge in Fixed Income and has Capital Market experience along with extensive testing experience. Strong hands-on management experience with Test Managements tools - ie., Quality Control, HQC or HQ

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

·         Responsible for UAT project testing effort, reporting and escalation

·         Work with different groups (business and operational teams, business /systems analysts, technical leads) to analyze required project documents and lead creation, review and signoff of quality assurance/testing related deliverables (e.g. test strategy, test plans, test scenarios/cases, test reports) for complex multi-interface enterprise application

·         Responsible for the effort estimates for assigned work packages

·         Works closely with Development and Infrastructure teams to ensure that the test environments are setup and ready for test execution

·         Facilitate daily test defect review meetings and coordinate the implementation of defect resolutions across the various processing components/applications

·         Responsible for providing project status updates from the QA perspective

·         Ensures entry/exit criteria for each test phase is fulfilled and coordinates required signoffs

·         Must have very good understanding of end-to-end business acceptance processes

·         Strong hands on experience with Test Management tools

·         Able to prepare, deliver, and present reports/ results/ findings for management & executive level reports and presentations

·         Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle, test processes and methodologies required

·         Excellent analytical and problem determination skills

·         Have excellent time management, multitasking, task planning and prioritization skills. Should be able to work effectively with minimal supervision & adapt quickly to changing client requirements

Other requirements:

·         Strong business knowledge in Fixed Income

·         Working experience with trading systems (e.g. Calypso, Bloomberg, Anvil)

·         3-5 years' experience as a QA Lead, developing test strategies and schedules, and 7-10 years in QA testing or software development process

·         BSc in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience

How to Apply

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