Quality Assurance Automation Associate

**Requisition ID**: 230804

**Employee Referral Program - Potential Reward**: $0.00

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**Purpose**

Contributes to the overall success of the QA / Global Enterprise Technology / Quality Assurance Automation in Bogota, Colombia ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

**Accountabilities**
- Design and execute automated test cases
- Design and execute manual test cases
- Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
- Supervise and co-ordinate testing for projects/releases:

- Design UAT test plans; assign and review test documentation (functions, testcases, scripts); balance the need to mitigate risk with the optimal use of testing resources while adhering to UAT policies, standards and procedures.
- Schedule and approve the release of projects into the UAT environment; execute complex test plans and supervise the execution of testing, co-ordinating resources, people and environments on a daily basis to meet the specific requirements for a project; manage multiple stakeholders with conflicting time and needs requirements; co-ordinate code delivery with external service providers.
- Continually evaluate priorities for various projects in response to frequent directional changes and take decisive action as required.
- Assess the results of UAT tests and take appropriate action; work closely with the development group to resolve defects; escalate issues to management when necessary; make recommendations to release the code to Production.
- Work with individual project teams, during the software development life cycle, to ensure business and technical requirements have been fulfilled; contribute recommendations and assessments to ongoing project reviews
- Forecast workday estimates based upon project documentation; monitor resource demands and escalate resource shortfalls or conflicts as required
- Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
- Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
- Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

**Reporting Relationships (Job Titles only)**

Primary Manager: (include secondary Manager if applicable) - Quality Assurance Functional Manager / Quality Assurance Functional Senior Manager
Direct Reports: Quality Assurance Functional Manager / Quality Assurance Functional Senior Manager
Shared Reports (solid/dotted if applicable):
**Dimensions**
- Expertise in SQL, JAVA, Selenium, and other automated testing tools are critical to the automation journey, working cohesively with manual testers and developers to produce nothing short of high-quality work in exciting high-profile projects to put quality products to market.
- This role will be hybrid between Automation and Functional Testing
- Proven work experience in software test automation.
- Hands-on experience with automated testing tools;
- Proven work experience in software quality assurance;
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes;
- Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases;
- Demonstrable, practical hands on experience writing simple or complex SQL queries for data validation
- Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting.
- Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing;
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process;
- Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus
- Demonstrable, practical hands on experience using JIRA
- Strong communication skills in both English and Spanish and a demonstrated ability to resolve escalated issues effectively
- Ability to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple competing priorities
- Results focused innovator, passionate about the success of their team.
- B1 level of English

**Education / Experience / Other Information (include only those that are specific to the role)**
- A degree in computer science, IT Business/Management or engineering related discipline is desirable,
- 1+ years of demonstrable, practical hands on experience as a QA Test Automation Engineer or Software developer

**Working Conditions**
- Work in a standard office-based environment / Hybrid Model ; non-standard hours are a common occurrence.

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