About this role
Job title: Quality Assurance Automation Engineer Specialist
Purpose
The Global Operations Technology (GOT) team develops and manages innovative products designed to support the ever-changing threat landscape working in close partnership with our Corporate Security, Fraud Business, and key Technology Partners throughout Scotiabank. The successful candidate will work closely with the product owner and business analysts to understand the business functions and requirements. The identified candidate will also work with software development group(s) to help deliver high-quality products.
The applicant should have excellent problem-solving skills and ability to review the requirements or stories and define and develop the test strategies, automation frameworks, and support defect management in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.
Accountabilities
Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge. Identify key focus areas for automated regression testing for builds and for new projects. Guide teams in understanding test scripts and providing direction around identifying automation opportunities. Design/Review/Update the Test Automation Framework. Ensure Proper version control and configuration management of automated tests. Provide accurate estimates for assigned task duration, along with confidence levels and foreseeable dependencies. Assist in preparing test plans, budgets, and schedules where applicable. Design and develop testing accelerators (e.g. Stubs, mocks, data fulfillment libraries etc.) Evaluate and implement appropriate tools as needed to drive test automation across IT. Perform code reviews, static analysis to ensure highest quality of test automation code.