Quality Assurance Functional Associate- ScotiaTech

Scotiabank; Bogotá; Presencial; COP 60.000.000 - 120.000.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

ScotiaTech in Bogota, Colombia seeks a Quality Assurance Functional Associate to contribute to QA/UAT activities, ensuring adherence to standards and timely delivery. You will design test plans, assess release readiness, and collaborate with development teams across projects.

The role requires hands-on QA experience, knowledge of SQL and testing tools, and strong communication in English and Spanish. You will operate within an agile environment and support multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced

Formación

• Degree in computer science, IT, or engineering desirable.
• 1-3 years hands-on QA/testing experience.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools and processes.
• Experience writing clear test plans and test cases.
• Ability to write SQL queries for data validation.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development process.

Responsabilidades

• Supervise and coordinate testing for projects/releases.
• Design UAT test plans and review test documentation.
• Schedule and approve release of projects into UAT environment.
• Coordinate resources and environments to meet project requirements.
• Resolve defects with development team and escalate when needed.
• Mentor junior analysts in UAT and testing practices.

Conocimientos

QA testing

SQL queries

Agile/Scrum

JIRA

Educación

BSc in CS/IT/Engineering

Herramientas

Automation tools

Descripción del empleo

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Title: Quality Assurance Functional Associate- ScotiaTech

Requisition ID: 257147

Thanks for your interest in ScotiaTech, Scotiabank's new and innovative Technology hub in Bogota.

Join a purpose driven winning team that promotes creativity and innovation in a fast-paced environment, where we’re always committed to results, in an inclusive, diverse, and high-performing culture.

Purpose

Contributes to the overall success of the QA / Global Enterprise Technology / Quality Assurance in Bogota, Colombia ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are 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.
• Supervise and co-ordinate testing for projects/releases:
• Assess UAT projects to determine the risk of releasing the code into the current test environment, specifically the possible impact to multiple projects, the degree of overlap in the applications and the code itself, within extremely tight timeframes.
• Design UAT test plans; assign and review test documentation (functions, testcases, scripts); balance the need to mitigate risk with the optimal use of testing resources while adhering to UAT policies, standards and procedures.
• Schedule and approve the release of projects into the UAT environment; execute complex test plans and supervise the execution of testing, co-ordinating resources, people and environments on a daily basis to meet the specific requirements for a project; manage multiple stakeholders with conflicting time and needs requirements; co-ordinate code delivery with external service providers.
• Continually evaluate priorities for various projects in response to frequent directional changes and take decisive action as required.
• Assess the results of UAT tests and take appropriate action; work closely with the development group to resolve defects; elevate issues to management when necessary; make recommendations to release the code to Production.
• Transfer application and process expertise to more junior analysts within UAT; provide hands on training on systems, hardware, environment, product, standards, and methodology to test team members; coach, motivate and provide feedback on department and project objectives, conflict resolution, and team building to assigned staff
• Work with individual project teams, during the software development life cycle, to ensure business and technical requirements have been fulfilled; contribute recommendations and assessments to ongoing project reviews
• Maintain a thorough and current understanding of a broad range of assigned banking applications, UAT code configuration, system integration, environment resources and code delivery process; provide technical advice to development teams and external suppliers on integration of specific applications within the UAT environment

Education / Experience / Other Information

• A degree in computer science, IT Business/Management or engineering related discipline is desirable,
• 1-3 years of demonstrable, practical hands on experience as a QA Tester
• Proven work experience in software quality assurance;
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes;
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases;
• Demonstrable, practical hands on experience writing simple or complex SQL queries for data validation
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing;
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools; (deseable)
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process;
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus
• Demonstrable, practical hands on experience using JIRA
• Strong communication skills in both English and Spanish and a demonstrated ability to resolve escalated issues effectively
• Ability to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple competing priorities

Location(s): Colombia : Bogota : Bogota

ScotiaTech is a business unit within ScotiaGBS, a Scotiabank Group company located in Bogota, Colombia. The ScotiaTech hub was created to support different technology systems and processes of the Bank. We offer an inclusive, positive work environment, and competitive benefits.

At ScotiaTech, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone.Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at ScotiaTech; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.

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