CGI

Position Description:

CGI is more than just an IT company. Join a team that supports the local community with the ability to draw on global best-in-class talent! Benefits include a share purchase program, profit sharing, wellness credits, training, and skill and personal development programs.

Our CGI-BC team has an opening for a QA Architect who will lead the delivery of exceptional information technology services to our clients. This team collaborates to implement functional and automated testing processes as part of a standard quality management practice. Successful candidates will have a keen eye for quality and an explicit understanding of QA methodologies and continuous process improvement.

Your experience includes a career rooted in Quality Management, Test design and planning, QA Test automation, Quality Assurance and a history of teaming with business analysts, software developers and business experts. As a Certified SAFe practitioner your familiarity of Agile Software Development will tie into an IP/methodology of integrating functional and automated testing into the software development and testing life cycles.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Manage release management operations, with traditional quality gates and DevOps CI/CD tooling, test automation, code review, Smoke tests, improving the usability of CI/CD pipelines and ISO industry standards of practice
• Analyze test results, identify root causes of issues, provide recommendations for optimization, and run defect remediations
• Recommend prioritization of issues with the team, for future and current development while honoring the Business vision, milestones, and objectives
• Maintain clear, consistent reporting and communication styles that are adaptable to your audience, respecting their need for information that addresses current and future business requirements

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

The QA Architect has experience as a QA Business Analyst, having previously led a QA team. The Team’s you have led can write code with skill and intuitiveness, designing and developing complex Test scenarios and cases with automation software. Automated Test suites would include functional or non‐functional test types and deploy across multiple systems. They have the experience to propose the right programming languages and the most suitable tools:

• Thorough understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle, and processes with demonstrated experience leading a team executing under a quality assurance methodology
• Strong software development fundamentals including automated testing, source control, continuous integration in addition to continuous delivery and/or deployment
• Can rapidly automate tests, as well as perform extensive QA business analysis QA testing and test strategies
• Familiarity with streaming platforms (real-time data on a massive scale, like Confluent Kafka)
• Experience working with test-driven development (TDD) or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) frameworks/methodologies (SpecFlow, Serenity)

Technical skills:

• UI Test Automation (Selenium)
• BDD (Cucumber, Cucumber-JVM, Cucumber.js, Gherkin)
• REST API test automation (REST Assured, SOAP UI etc.)
• Scripting (Shell, Python, Java)
• Practical use of cloud technologies such as AWS and Azure
• Database (SQL – writing basic queries to validate data etc.)
• Test management tools (JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, HP QC etc.)
• Test scenarios and test case writing
• DevOps (CI/CD pipeline basics using Jenkins

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge of quality engineering and the deployment of solutions for retail back-office systems and applications that support Planning, Merchandising, Master Data Management, Analytics & Data science to assist in product creation
• Programming (Java or .NET)
• Document management (Confluence, Share point etc.)
• Cloud deployment tools (AWS, Azure or GCP – Basic knowledge of EC2, CloudFormation etc.)
• Cloud data management (AWS S3, RDS etc.)

Education and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent, and/or strong in computer science fundamentals of algorithm design, programming constructs, problem-solving, US principles, etc.
• 12+ years of strong, demonstrable experience working as a Quality engineer or SDET in a project environment
• Certifications: ITIL 4, ITSQB CTAL with Agile, Automation and/or Quality Management, Certified SAFe practitioner

CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors including but not limited to skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licensure and certifications. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range in British Columbia is $65,000 - $150,000.

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Skills:

• Application Development
• Cloud Computing
• Document Management
• Leadership
• Project Management
• Quality Management
• Software Testing
• Test Management
• Test Planning & Implementation

What you can expect from us:

Insights you can act on

While technology is at the heart of our clients’ digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.

When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees "members" because they are CGI shareholders and owners and owners who enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today — one of the world’s largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.

At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal-opportunity employer, we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.

Ready to become part of our success story? Join CGI — where your ideas and actions make a difference.