Business and Quality Assurance Analyst

Title: Business and Quality Assurance Analyst

Requisition ID: 206343

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Global Fraud Authentications Technology team develops and manages innovative products designed to support the ever-changing threat landscape. We work in close partnership with our Fraud Authentications Business and key Technology Partners throughout Scotiabank to drive global technology delivery. We are key team members within Global Operations Technology to ensure business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed/delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

1. Facilitates collaborative solution discovery sessions using lightweight techniques such as Story Mapping.
2. Decomposes the solution into small increments of value (stories) that can be independently built and validated.
3. Works closely with architects and engineers to ensure a flow of stories are specified, engineered and validated.
4. Facilitates collaborative sessions with teams to detail acceptance criteria on stories using practices such as specification by example.
5. Facilitates root cause analysis of defects with the team and ensures that they act as a catalyst for continuous improvement.
6. Collaborates with business stakeholders and product owners to review and accept completed stories and features.
7. Collaborates with team and business representatives to define value and guide priority.
8. Collaborates with the delivery team to define the overall testing approach and perform acceptance testing to validate business requirements in rapid iterations.
9. Performs exploratory testing and regression testing as necessary, using a risk-based approach.
10. Designs and develops the automation testing strategies.
11. Extends story specifications to align with automation testing strategies while including real world data, edge cases etc.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have:

1. University/college degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering or equivalent experience.
2. 5+ years of relevant work experience.
3. Ability to work independently and drive solutions with a small working team.
4. Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving.
5. Decision Making.
6. Time management.
7. Business process re-engineering.
8. IT fluency.
9. Team player.
10. Comfortable working in an Agile environment.
11. Good written and verbal communication skills.
12. Experience in Banking/Financial industry is a nice-to-have.

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.