Title:  Quality Assurance Functional Associate- Scotiatech

Requisition ID: 209858

Thanks for your interest in ScotiaTech, Scotiabank's new and innovative Technology hub in Bogota.

Join a purpose driven winning team that promotes creativity and innovation in a fast-paced environment, where we’re always committed to results, in an inclusive, diverse, and high-performing culture.

 

Purpose

We are committed to investing in our employees and helping you continue your career at Scotiabank. 

Join a dynamic and collaborative Agile ecosystem that supports the Leading-Edge Application platform for Caribbean at CCA Technology Digital Engineering, servicing the Cash Management application for our Commercial and Corporate and Small Business customers. Our team is comprised of Agile feature teams that deliver user-centric products using modern engineering and technical practices. The position is within one of the feature teams and will report to the Senior Manager

The Software Engineer Associate will contribute to the overall success of QA in the team. The incumbent will be responsible for coordinating and/or executing the testing for multiple projects or releases while being deployed on Agile software development teams. This incumbent will be an active collaborator on the project team and is responsible for following quality assurance and testing practices and is expected to provide test designing, test execution, defect tracking and QA progress monitoring services.

Accountabilities

• 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:
• Assess UAT projects to determine the risk of releasing the code into the current test environment, specifically the possible impact to multiple projects, the degree of overlap in the applications and the code itself, within extremely tight timeframes.
• 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.
• Transfer application and process expertise to more junior analysts within UAT; provide hands on training on systems, hardware, environment, product, standards, and methodology to test team members; coach, motivate and provide feedback on department and project objectives, conflict resolution, and team building to assigned staff.
• 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.
• Maintain a thorough and current understanding of a broad range of assigned banking applications, UAT code configuration, system integration, environment resources and code delivery process; provide technical advice to development teams and external suppliers on integration of specific applications within the UAT environment.
• Forecast workday estimates based upon project documentation; monitor resource demands and escalate resource shortfalls or conflicts as required.
• Identify and pursue opportunities to enhance personal breadth and depth of expertise and proactively apply knowledge on the job; identify and recommend enhancements or modifications to UAT processes in an effort to continually improve overall department efficiency and effectiveness.
• 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.

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Dimensions

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Location(s):  Colombia : Bogota : Bogota 

ScotiaTech is a business unit within ScotiaGBS, a Scotiabank Group company located in Bogota, Colombia. The ScotiaTech hub was created to support different technology systems and processes of the Bank. We offer an inclusive, positive work environment, and competitive benefits.

At ScotiaTech, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at ScotiaTech; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.

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