Sr. QA Analyst

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About the Job

Our client has a requirement for a QA Analyst for a six month contract opportunity.  The position is located in Mississauga.

 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

Department Overview: Implementation Services is situated on the critical path of application and Infrastructure implementations. The Business Application Services teams are responsible for testing and deploying the Bank’s business applications. As a member of the Business Application Services team, you will be primarily responsible for operational testing and deployment of application changes into the production environment. The team works with various distributed and mainframe technologies/applications teams. You will also work closely with TS, OAM, Business units and Engineering teams to ensure the successful implementation of products/changes into the production environment. 

Responsibilities

·         Involvement in meetings and requirement review sessions to provide key operational perspectives during the planning phase of projects. 

·         Participate in test planning and creation of Pre-Production test plans 

·         Working with project managers, development teams and business users to define and document non-functional testing requirements that need to be covered during Production Acceptance Testing.

·         Performing the application code install in the Pre-Production Testing environment and executing non-functional testing, this primarily includes operability testing and negative testing. 

·         Perform defined operability and deployment tasks in a secure production acceptance environment prior to deployment. 

·         Supporting performance and load testing within the Pre-Production environments. 

·         Ensure adequate test coverage through the use of manual and automated test scripts. 

·         Tracking and reporting on defects and corresponding changes to application code that are required during Pre-Production 

·         Scheduling change records and deploying application changes into the Production environment. 

·         Ensure the safe deployment of quality Business Applications to the Bank’s production environment infrastructures. 

·         Ensure that all changes implemented into Production environment do not cause any Production impacts outside of the prescribed implementation 

·         Preparing and providing a handover session to Infrastructure Technology Solutions teams that will be accountable for application support, once changes are promoted to Production 

·         Possess excellent communication (both written and oral) and interpersonal skills. 

Requirements or Qualifications

Qualified Candidates will have:

·   Have strong customer service skills. 

·   Be organized, self-motivated and goal oriented 

·   Demonstrate sound time management skills. 

·   Have a willingness to take ownership of tasks and see them through to successful completion 

·   Be proficient with Windows, MS Word, MS Excel. 

·   Have a solid understanding of the Change and Problem Management methodology. 

·   Must Have - Websphere Deployment experience 

 Experience with the following applications/technologies would be an asset: 

·  Microsoft IIS 

·  Microsoft SQL server 

·  Switched Ethernet Network Topology 

·  CA-7 

·  MKS (Source Integrity) , Solve and USD 

·  Knowledge of IMS and DB2 environments 

·  MCSE or other related certifications is a definite asset 

·  IBM AIX, Wintel, SUN Solaris

How to Apply

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