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The Opportunity
Professional Quality Assurance Ltd. (PQA) Testing has been going strong since 1997! As Canada's largest and most established independent software testing company, we insist on working with quality people who share our passion for quality testing! We have built a team of people who also believe quality is the most important deliverable. Our team of software testing specialists believe that better software leads to a better world.
We are committed to building strong communities - our sister company PLATO Testing, trains and employs members of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit communities across the country. Our team members enjoy opportunities for continuous learning and they work with leading-edge companies, technologies, and tools.
We are currently expanding nationally and are looking for an Automation Architect to help us do that! The ideal candidate is someone with excellent communication, collaboration, analytical, and problem-solving skills. Flexibility, adaptability, and the ability to receive and provide feedback are critical competencies for this role. Saskatchewan-based candidates will receive preference. Join a team that feels like family!
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and strategic orientation for the test automation discipline at an organization level
- Build strategic communication on test automation strategy, KPI/ROI framework, implementation roadmap
- Set direction for short and long-term automation objectives pertaining to SDLC phases
- Bridge the gap between testing disciplines, development teams and operation teams
- Bring in depth knowledge of multiple open source/commercial tools for Web/Mobile/Services automation
- Develop and maintain applications using Java, Spring Framework, Oracle, XML, JSON, JUnit, and JavaScript libraries
- Design and plan processes around CICD, Dev Ops adoption and operationalization
- Bring hands on competencies around DevOps, Continuous Testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
- Serve as an expert in defining and rolling out standard Automation Frameworks, in line with latest industry trends
- Bring experience software quality best practices, test strategy and planning, test case development, test case execution, deployment and, test data, defect tracking, and test automation
- Supports Junior to senior automation analyst in automation script development and optimization of those test scripts
- Recommends new tools, techniques and methodologies needed to enhance productivity and quality across project/product
- Evaluate, select and formulate best usage of test automation tools and future alignment for different products and applications
- Develop automation strategy to support regression testing based on the technical analysis, complexity and reusability
- Oversee technological execution of the recommended automation solution roadmap across project teams
- Participate in Design and Architectural reviews of proposed automation solutions across project teams and to provide long term vision for the automation solution
What you'll need
Qualifications
- Computer Science degree, Engineering degree, or equivalent work experience
- 12+ years of experience as a Software Quality Assurance Analyst
- 8+ years working in Test Automation
- Experience with automation tools (Selenium, QTP/UFT, Tosca, etc.)
- Experience with Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab, etc.)
- Experience with Test Management tools such as ALM/QC, JIRA, and qTest
- Experience in API testing (ReadyAPI, Postman, etc.)
- Demonstrated experience having designed and implemented test automation frameworks
- Experience in Containerization and Orchestration: Docker/Kubernetes
Experience in the following will be considered an asset:
- Programming languages: Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Json, Python
- Engines or frameworks: Node Js, Spring Boot
- Code management/Build tools: Git - Gitlab, Jenkins, Maven
- Frameworks: Selenium, Selenium JS, Webdriverio, Appium, Protractor, Cucumber
- Containerization and Orchestration: Docker/Kubernetes
- Testing & work methodology: BDD, TDD, CICD
- Data: SQL, PL-SQL developer
- Concrete experience practicing BDD testing with Gherkin/Cucumber, API testing with SOAP and RESTful components
- Continuous integration, build automation, & deployment
- Agile practices and tools
- Enterprise integration patterns using REST, modern Web & Mobile technologies
- Public/Private cloud
We're looking for
Core Skills
A little bit about us
PLATO
Who We Are
PLATO is a software testing and technology services company trusted by clients around the world.
In addition to providing our clients the highest quality software testing services, PLATO is creating careers in technology for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people from coast to coast to coast through our innovative train-and-employ model. Since 1997, we have been helping organizations all over the world reach their quality objectives by delivering scalable, proven, quality-centric managed services. Companies such as Apple, Suncor, TD Bank, Medavie, BCLC, LinkedIn, Boeing, and many others have gained considerable advantage from our Quality Assurance (QA), Testing, and eLearning expertise and experience.
We deliver specialized QA services to our clients with the goal of helping them increase profitability, boost customer satisfaction, manage development cycles and implement quality-centric solutions. We develop innovative approaches and solutions, designed to generate increased efficiencies, competitive advantage, and market share for our clients.
Are you interested?
Work With Us
At PQA Testing, we encourage our employees' personal career growth. We have plans in place to make sure that each employee is connected with a people manager to help guide them through their professional development, offer e-learning classes, and give our employees the opportunity to pursue software certifications for cutting-edge technologies.
PQA respectfully acknowledges that our offices are located on treaty territories, unceded First Nations and Inuit territories, and part of Métis homelands. We honour their long history of welcoming many Nations to the beautiful Turtle Island and we actively work towards reconciliation between Métis, Inuit, and First Nation peoples and non-Indigenous people on this Land.
We contribute to proactive employment practices to promote inclusivity and diversity to those especially marginalized populations such as women, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples, and all other groups protected under the Human Rights Code.
We are committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in accordance with provincial legislation. Please let us know if you require accommodation during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.
Submit your application by August 25, 2022.
JOBID: 22T016