At GMS, we've been helping Canadians for more than 75 years to get the health and travel insurance they want and need. The same pioneering spirit that started our story is what drives us to do things differently today. Insurance, honestly, is our promise, and it's what we do at GMS. We care about our customers, our community and each other. As a non-profit organization, we're proud to reinvest our profits into the health of the communities we serve and that have supported us since 1949.

We want our employees to feel good about coming to work and being in a workplace that promotes flexibility, growth and a healthy work-life balance. If you'd like to be part of a team that truly takes care of our customers, our communities, and each other, this could be your chance.

Here's the role
The Testing and Quality Assurance Lead plays an important role in the success of the business and digital transformation. This position will focus on leading and implementing exploratory and automated tests to ensure product and technology quality. In addition, this position will lead the strategy for identifying issues, defining corrective actions, resolving system integration issues and ensuring quality across all stages of the transformation. Working collaboratively with our technology, PMO and business teams, this position is key to the successful delivery of quality customer experiences and solutions during transformation.

Position Responsibilities

•Write and execute on GMS' unit and end to end test cases for transformation.
•Support the understanding of the data needed to test against and create data if necessary.
•Lead, estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing activities as well as UAT signoff.
•Design, develop and execute automation test scripts.
•Identify, record, document and track all bugs, and monitor debugging results.
•Perform regression testing when bugs are resolved.
•Develop and apply testing processes for transformation to meet GMS and vendor needs.
•Liaise with internal teams to identify testing and system integration requirements.
•Define and track quality assurance measures.
•Maintain up to date knowledge with testing tools and strategies:
Azure DevOps, Jira, PowerBI, Excel and automated testing tools (Microsoft Playwright)

Competencies

•Analytical Thinking: strong data and trend analysis skills to identify gaps and opportunities; quickly and effectively solves problems and recalls information to discuss the historic trends of past decision making.
•Critical Thinking: Uses data and experience to understand and develop solutions to a range of business problems; validates inputs, assumptions and outputs for reasonableness; sees connections between actions and their consequences.
•Quality Orientation: Sets high expectations for self; ensures accurate delivery of work across the team; conducts extensive discussions with peers, business units and external business partners to ensure assumptions are complete.
•Communication: able to communicate complex information in accessible terms to a range of audiences; clearly articulates steps in a process and when providing recommendations.
•deliverables.

Education & Experience

•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related subject.
•5+ years' experience in software development and quality assurance.
•3+ years leading projects and team members.
•Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, strategies, and tools.
•Prior experience with software development technologies

Are we a fit?
If you think so, please apply by November 29, 2024. We'd love to reach out to everyone who applies, but we just don't have enough hands! If you're selected for an interview, we'll be in touch. If not, please consider us again in the future.