Senior Quality Engineer, Private Equity, Alternative Investments Technology (12-month contract)

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to enhance their Private Equity Technology team. This role involves designing and implementing test automation frameworks, ensuring quality throughout the product lifecycle, and fostering a collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in quality engineering processes and agile methodologies, along with a passion for performance and continuous improvement. Join a dynamic organization that values integrity and offers a hybrid work environment, where your contributions will have a meaningful impact on investment solutions for clients worldwide.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Environment

Professional Development Opportunities

Diverse and Inclusive Workplace

Access to Cutting-Edge Technology

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in quality engineering.
• Experience with automated and manual test processes.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement test automation frameworks.
• Define and execute test plans and analyze results.
• Foster collaboration and mentorship within the team.

Skills

Test Automation

Quality Engineering Processes

Agile Methodologies

Scripting

Regression Testing

Education

Undergraduate Degree in Engineering

College Diploma in Computer Science

Tools

Automated Test Tools

Test Planning Tools

Job description

Senior Quality Engineer, Private Equity, Alternative Investments Technology (12-month contract)

• Contract
• Function: Information Technology

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you join CPP Investments, you are joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors. As a professional investment management organization, CPP Investments invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure its financial sustainability for generations of working and retired Canadians.

CPP Investments invests across regions and asset classes to build a globally diversified portfolio. It holds assets in public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income, and the CPP Fund is projected to reach $3.6trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Sydney.

CPP Investments successfully attracts, selects, and retains talented individuals from top-tier institutions worldwide. Join our team for access to:

• Stimulating work in a fast-paced and intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• A hybrid-flexible work environment with an emphasis on in-person collaboration
• A culture rooted in principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance
• An organization with an important social purpose that positively impacts lives

If you have a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach work with the highest integrity, invest your career here.

The Private Equity Technology team is responsible for building and supporting end-to-end technology solutions to assist with all aspects of the investment lifecycle for the Private Equity business group and Investment Operations group supporting private investments.

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will design, build and implement test automation to ensure quality delivery in support of value-add technology solutions and products. You will proactively develop and improve quality engineering processes within your team, and handle audits and inspections, working closely with other departments to ensure that quality is maintained throughout the product lifecycle.

Accountabilities:

• Design, build and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts with independence improving efficiency and test coverage to enable business capabilities, working in an Agile environment that includes business and T&D partner teams.
• Drive a shift-left approach to software validation, guiding the team to apply automation themselves vs handing to “QA/QE” to automate
• Participate in product design and development to ensure that quality is built in from the beginning.
• Monitor the effectiveness of test automation and drive improvements through insights gained via analysis at various stages of test automation to ensure stability, efficiency, and scalability.
• Define and execute test plans, test cases/scripts, identify defects, analyze test results and partner with developers to ensure that products or services meet quality standards.
• Apply advanced understanding of engineering best practices and drive continuous improvement across the team through coaching and influencing
• Adhere to Agile SDLC and execute related duties as required.
• Foster collaboration and mentorship promoting a culture of feedback, learning and professional growth
• Maintain strong relationships with business partners, peer IT teams and vendor partners.
• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science).
• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with QE processes and methodologies, automated and manual test processes, test planning, test cases design, scripting, execution, automated test tools, regression testing.
• Experience writing clean, usable, and efficient code.
• Experience interacting and coordinating test activities amongst multiple teams and ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability.

We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process.

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Disclaimer:

CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered. CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.