Job Description

Working at CBC:

At the CBC, we all have a story to tell. Whats yours?

If you share our passion for Canadian storytelling and you wish to help us engage with individuals and communities across our various digital platforms, this is where youll want to be!

Every day, you will have an opportunity to shape the way in which Canadians see themselves reflected in our digital services. Your work will have a direct impact on how millions of Canadians from various communities connect with our products, with one another, and with the diverse voices that make our country so unique.

You will have the opportunity to play a part in enlightening and entertaining Canadians through our innovative work in building the mediums that deliver our content. We are an innovative hub, where the talented professionals we work with are respected and valued for their contributions. Our product teams are vibrant and our work culture strives to achieve the highest standards of diversity and inclusion. We believe that hiring people with different career paths and backgrounds is fundamental to our shared success and in building healthy and highly performant teams. When you join our mission, you are not only shaping the vision of the CBC but the future of our country.

This role offers the possibility of full-time telework or hybrid.

Heres why we should work together:

Our digital teams values - collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement - embody who we are as a people-focused, digital-forward employer. We follow lean startup principles and use an Agile approach. Our dedicated people managers work closely with every individual to ensure we are leveraging their strengths, championing their ideas, and supporting their pursuit of new skills and their desired career progression.

Here at CBC Digital Strategy & Products, we want you to be happy and feel good at work. It is essential that work be a safe space where our employees are able to share their authentic selves with one another and push each other to challenge conventions.

Why is this role important?

You will be working with software development teams and the Agile Engineering and Architecture team in our quality management journeys. Time to market, happy users, reliable, performant and resilient products are some of the reasons why we are looking for your help in building our engineering practice. You will be part of a team that values growth, excellence and innovation. We will bring out the explorer, challenger and trail blazer in you. But we are also grounded in sustainable, extensible and holistic approaches. In this role, you will help design, shape and execute our visions on quality and automation.

How you will make an impact:

Facilitate adoption of test automation pipelines and frameworks. Embed in one or more development teams to help set up quality engineering practice, implement tests, and contribute to test libraries.

Develop and optimize test execution. This includes tuning test performance, and debugging test failures and flaky tests.

Engage in quality management activities with development teams, including:

Design tests and quality reviews.This includes automation of test environments and data setup/teardown.

Participate in test implementation and execution. This includes managing defect lifecycles and release processes.

Advise on test strategies, identify quality improvement opportunities including how to increase test automation coverage and suggest a plan of action.

Collect and make use of quality measurements, using the data to improve processes and products.

Work with development teams in evaluating and implementing new technologies and test platforms. Carry out activities that support development teams in terms of quality management best practices.

Qualifications

What you bring to our team:

You have 5 years or more experience in software development, and at least 3 years of experience in quality management, especially in the area of test automation.

You have demonstrated the ability to drive innovation and improvements on overall quality processes, including developing and monitoring quality standards and measurements.

You have exposure to a variety of different testing techniques such as UI Testing, Test Driven Development, user journey testing, user story testing and others. You have participated in designing and implementing a products test strategies.

You are experienced in a variety of test types, both functional and non-functional, e.g. unit, integration, contract, accessibility and performance testing.

You have built test automation pipelines, as part of a products CI/CD process. You have a good understanding of branch strategy and Git workflow.

You can read and write code in general purpose programming languages, e.g. javascript, java, python, groovy or Ruby.

You are knowledgeable in a number of test and automation platforms and frameworks, e.g. Jenkins, Robot, Selenium, Cypress, Appium. You have experience in observing, optimizing and tuning test performance.

You have worked with Agile methodologies. You understand the software development ecosystem and the role that quality management plays in it.

You have experience coaching teams to adopt a quality mindset and practice quality engineering. You are able to analyze and guide a team through the tradeoffs between investing in manual or automated testing.

You are a problem solver and communicate well. You take ownership of the work you do, see problems as opportunities, and love sharing new ideas. You are a dynamic individual who loves to learn and connect with others.

You possess a degree, diploma or equivalent in a software development or scientific/engineering related discipline delivered by a recognized learning institution. But we know not everyone gains their programming skills this way.

Assets:

You possess broad skill sets on various types of tests, their design and execution patterns, especially non functional tests like security and resiliency.

You have experience in automating testing of high-traffic media-rich websites, including performance and load testing.

You are a domain expert of one or more mainstream test or automation platforms.

You are multilingual in programming languages. You are proficient in writing with a number of languages and you can read most languages.

Mobile Application testing experience is an asset.

Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.

Perks you can look forward to:

• Flexible work schedules, allowing you to prioritize yourself, your family and your work.
• Work from home opportunities.
• Competitive total rewards package.
• Opportunities to work with cutting edge technology.
• Opportunities for continued learning and professional development.
• Opportunities to become a member of our Employee Resource Groups.
• Pair programming and mentorship opportunities, where you can learn from the best in the industry and help coach new talent.
• A creative and dynamic work environment, where your ideas and contributions can be heard, valued and respected.
• A supportive management team committed to upholding the highest standards of diversity and inclusivity.
• An environment which favours experimentation and an iterative approach in order to achieve the highest form of technical innovation.

To Apply:

At the CBC, we recognize that not everyone takes the same path when it comes to building their skills. We value diversity of thought and of experience, and we are excited to hear from you! Hands-on experience, intelligence, innovation, a passion for learning, and a team-focused approach can combine to form the best set of qualifications. If you feel you meet most of the qualifications and you are excited by the possibility of adding to the rich culture of the CBC, take a chance and express your interest by applying now!

If youre interested in reading more about the various backgrounds of the talented people that make up our teams, our exciting new projects, and what were currently working on, check out our blog on Medium!

CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our countrys diversity. Thats because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country. Thats why we, as an employer, value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canadas public broadcaster. For more information, visit the section of our website. If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to recruitment@cbc.ca.

You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our . All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment. We also invite you to take a look at our policy on . In the event that you become an employee, it will be important to inform us, as quickly as possible, of any situation that, because of your hiring, constitutes or could appear to constitute a conflict of interest.

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