Quality Assurance Functional Specialist

**Requisition ID**: 207853

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Purpose_**

Contributes to the overall success of the Global Human Resources Technology, in globally ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted follow governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures. Drives the team to succeed in providing Scotiabank with global services focusing on IT Service Management, Employee IT Services and IT Risk and Governance of technology assets.

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Accountabilities _**:

- by reviewing and evaluating requirements and design documentation, create, develop and review test strategies and workday estimates, contribute to the preparation of comprehensive test documentation, and participate in daily testing activities. Closely monitor the progress of testing, and evaluate defects raised, balancing the need to mitigate risk with the optimal use of testing resources while adhering to Best Practices, Methodologies, Guiding Principles, Standards and Procedures.
- The **Quality** Assurance Functional Specialist** must work under tight deadlines, conflicting priorities and changing requirements.
- The **Quality** Assurance Functional Specialist** must be able to react quickly to contribute in the resolution of issues, work overtime to meet deadlines and to implement systems with mínimal impact to the Business users.
- Assess multiple, overlapping projects with stringent time frames and appraise outstanding issues with the potential of impacting the promotion of initiatives to the Production environment, providing suggestions to minimize associated risks.
- Provide guidance to the testing team and members of the project teams; consisting of analysts with varying degrees of knowledge, provide ongoing support to current initiatives, knowledge transfer and support to individual team members to increase performance.
- Contribute to the maintenance of a stable, professional environment, while ensuring department objectives are understood and met.
- Assist with the coordination of testing activities with other departments and interpret detailed information provided by technical support staff. Participate in forward-planning sessions and identify/resolve conflicts between initiatives.
- Provide input to the project team to incrementally improve the effectiveness and efficiency of IST.
- Requires limited management direction and handles extremely complex problems.

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Reporting Relationships_**:
**Primary Manager**:

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Quality Assurance Senior Manager_

**Direct Reports**:
Total staff supervised may involve 8 to 10 resources

**Shared Reports (solid/dotted if applicable)**:
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Dimensions_**:

- Ability to perform and co-ordinate the testing of multiple projects and assignments concurrently.
- Strong knowledge of Agile/traditional/other methodologies, procedures and standards.
- Support QA Testing Management to establish, co-ordinate and ensure a stable environment for conducting QA test.
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities
- It is expected that the incumbent works independently of releases and projects that ultimately impact over 1200 Domestic branches and locations.

**Education / Experience / Other Information**
- A bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years work IT experience in delivery and execution, 4+ of which working continuous years’ experience working in Testing area.
- 4+ years’ work experience in delivery and execution, at least 1+ years leading Agile team
- English fluency is a must (B1 or higher)
- Ability to address all project related issues and conflicts within the testing cycle.
- Minimum 3 years of working experience in Regulatory Systems with multiple integration points to various Databases/systems for the data feeds is highly desired.
- Strong English language communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to interact with Senior Management; complete presentations or provide status updates.
- Ability to address all project related issues and conflicts within the testing cycle.
- Working knowledge of, JIRA, and Confluence.
- Knowledge of Project Management principles.
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
- Independent; responsible; accountable; results-driven & a keen eagerness to learn in a fast-paced, yet complicated environment is essential to this position.
- Familiarity with automated testing tools like Quick Test Professional (QTP) & the Oracle Application Testing Suite is an asset.
- Familiarity in systems design (Agile, Waterfall) and a solid understanding of SQL, QA and integration testing methodologies.
- Any testing certification is an asset.

**AUTHORITY/ DECISION MAKING/ DIRECTION RECEIVED**:

- Day to day decisions regarding approaches to testing are handled independently by the incumbent.
- Incumbent is responsible for most recommendations for strategic resour