Application Deployment Specialist

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About the Job

Our client has a requirement for an Application Deployment Specialist for a 6 Month Contract opportunity.  The position is located in Mississauga, ON.

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.

We are currently seeking a candidate with non-functional testing experience and Websphere Deployment.

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.

Job Description/Accountabilities 

• 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

The successful applicant will:

• Possess excellent communication (both written and oral) and

  interpersonal skills.
• 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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