IT Quality Assurance Manager - Dorval, Canada - Air Canada

Air Canada

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Dorval, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Description

Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.

Air Canada seeks a highly motivated, detail orientated, experienced, energetic and hands-on IT Quality Assurance Manager to manage all aspects of SQA (technical, project, process, administrative).

The QA Manager works with IT partners to facilitate better coordination among operations, development and testing functions to deliver highest quality of end-solutions, timely and cost effectively, through introduction of new tools, technology, automation, standards and practices for evolution of development, test and deploy processes.

The position requires understanding of continuous integration and delivery, strong technical testing background, the ability to understand highly complex architectures and ability to define effective test strategies.

This position may be located in Montreal or Toronto.

Responsibilities

Drive continuous improvements in AC QA guidelines and champion the adoption and inclusion of industry best practices, technologies and process for high quality timely costeffective solution deliveries.
Drive continuous improvement in the quality of solutions and changes deployed in your domain. This includes analysis of MIs/customer defects/feedback and incorporation of preventive actions, as required.
Responsible for the overall quality of all solution deployments within BU or domain. Ensuring that test, development, and deployment processes comply with AC QA guidelines.
Implement effective analysis of design and reviews test scripts, coding, automation, and integration activities required, based on general objectives and knowledge of overall architecture of product or solution
Manage all activities in the System Development Quality Lifecycle including aspects that are executed by other departments, branches, or 3rd parties. Ensure compliance to AC QA guidelines and KPIs"
Lead requirement and systems analysis efforts, including translating business requirements
Lead Planning and monitoring processes for a particular functional area
Responsible to provide technology or services ownership direction across functional areas, including matters related to specialized or niche technologies
Provide financial inputs for developing, administering and adhering to the budget allocated for the role's span of control
Responsible for working across technology functions to ensure synergistic collaboration and attain shared goals
Responsible for providing mentorship across functions for common development of technical skills and capabilities
Provide business and technical inputs to Business Governance and Operational Management Committees, as appropriate
Responsible for handling high amount of technology complexity and drive autonomous decision making, as it relates to adoption of technology best practices
Responsible to drive technology vision and continuous improvement objectives for a functional area
Work with QA suppliers to effectively manage QA teams, resources and processes to deliver on time with a high level of quality.
Monitor and measure the performance of QA resources, processes and tools across the SDLC and report and maintain an operational scorecard
Ensure adherence to mandatory regulations and processes through governance of test activities within the assigned areas

Qualifications

A relevant University degree/technical certification, and/or relevant experience commensurate to the role

years of IT technology, operations, people leadership and strategy experience in a large company

ISTQB, QAI Certifications and other Certifications in core programming languages, agile methodologies (CSPO, PMI-ACP, etc.)
Demonstrate significant technical depth to handle strategic technology priorities
Strong leadership skills that inspire team confidence and respect while motivating team members in a creative and effective manner
Must have experience in managing and working with distributed team members
Must have a desire for achieving excellence in customer satisfaction, product quality and reliability
Strong understanding of different software development life cycles (waterfall, iterative, agile) and contemporary software quality assurance processes and automated tools
Experience with agile testing methods and continuous integration with knowledge of CD
Knowledge of internet and ebusiness, mobile apps processes, disciplines, and standards
Experience with mission critical, operations or security sensitive systems. Including managing deployments and rollbacks
Experience with production level testing e.g. health checks, monitoring, failover, and DR
Must have experience in test automation, performance, and security
Strong analytical skills and experience with implementation and administratio