Software Quality Assurance Specialist
Temporary Full-Time (approx. 18 months)
Open to any location in Canada (ability to work from your home office)
Closes March 12
Annual Salary: $55,889 – $76,847
Innovation Federal Credit Union has a bold ambition. In addition to being Canada’s newest Federal Credit Union, we will be the most digital, member-centric organization in our industry. We are on a journey to embrace the core tenets of the digital business model, like ideation, the network effect, personalized segmentation, coopetition, and agile ways of working.
We come to work to simplify banking for all Canadians – that’s our purpose.
How does this position help fulfill Innovation’s purpose? Glad you asked!
Reporting to the VP Member Platform Development, the Software Quality Assurance Specialist is responsible for testing the functionality and usability of new or existing software and assessing software quality through manual testing. This position will work closely with developers, providing feedback to produce top-quality programs that meet stakeholder expectations.
WIIFY (what’s in it for you):
- Competitive Salary
- Diverse and Inclusive Culture that continues to evolve
- Flexible work arrangement options
- Strong benefit package
- 7% Superannuation matched contribution program
- Attractive variable incentive program
- Wellness Days to create appropriate work/life balance
- Paid Education opportunities to ensure our members have the most equipped staff to help them
- A purpose-driven organization that focuses on the values of Accountability, Integrity and Respect
- And lots more reasons to love where you work and what you do!
What our team is looking for:
- A growth mindset that emulates Model, Coach and Care behaviours in every activity and approach
- A solution mindset that feeds inertia
- An ambassador willing to promote our team inside and outside the organization.
- Somebody who is digitally capable and wants to dig into new technology with enthusiasm!
- Somebody who can work with occasional ambiguity with a focus on process evolution.
- A mindset of Solve, Serve, Sell – a problem solver, serving our members directly or indirectly, and selling our brand!
- Somebody to sweat the small stuff, but also see the big picture.
- Personality and Energy – a flair for polish, and you bring your personal, creative touch to everything you do!
What will you do?
- Review, analyze and understand the system specifications.
- Design and create test plans, scenarios, scripts and procedures.
- Execute manual and/or automated tests on the software application.
- Perform testing on web and mobile devices.
- Analyze test results, identify bugs and glitches, and report them to development teams.
- Ensure offerings are entirely functional and provide quality assurance for software products.
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Advise best practices and optimizations throughout testing and bug-fixing processes.
- Establish and implement rigorous reporting and automated monitoring systems.
- Implement feedback and changes whenever possible.
Some things that would impress us:
- Completion of a post-secondary program in Computer Science or a related field
- Minimum 6 years’ experience in quality assurance, software testing and troubleshooting; previous experience in financial services would be considered an asset
- Previous experience in core banking system, online and mobile banking applications is an asset
- Experience or working knowledge of project management and QA methodology
- Familiarity with both Waterfall and Agile frameworks
- Strong written and verbal communication skills working with software development teams
Interested?
Click the ‘Apply now’ button!
Innovation Federal Credit Union acknowledges that Indigenous peoples are the traditional guardians of this land that we call Canada. In Saskatchewan we are on treaty lands and these treaties serve to govern our relationships with Indigenous people. We are dedicated to ensuring that the spirit of Reconciliation and treaties are honoured and respected.
Innovation Credit Union has a bold ambition – to be the most digital, member-centric organization in our industry. We are on a journey to modernize our marketing with investments in new platforms like Adobe Experience Manager. To ensure our success, we are looking for UI/UX designer to join our team. This individual will deliver innovative concepts and design standards to ensure cross-site consistency and will drive digital transformation to simplify the experience for our credit union members.
Reporting to the VP, Int Marketing/Data Analytics, the UI/UX Designer is a user experience evangelist and creative problem solver. This individual has a functional understanding of coding and transferring the brand’s strengths and personality seamlessly throughout the interface of a product. The UI/UX Designer brings a wealth of knowledge to our collaborative multi-disciplinary marketing team and provides expertise in mobile and responsive design, visual design programs (such as Adobe Photoshop), and animation and video content for a variety of mediums.
A UI/UX Designer does the following:
- Define and deliver design components and deliverables including wireframes, mock-ups, user workflows, and interaction rules by working collaboratively with key team members within an agile and iterative design and development environment where timely delivery of design deliverables is critical
- Develop and manage the member experience design process to deliver creative digital concepts and solutions for our web and mobile properties and incorporate animation as a functional element that enhances the user experience
- Participate and solution in design workshops, persona development and client journey mapping sessions as well as develop user-centered storyboards, sketches/wireframes, and prototypes
- Support the creation and maintenance of UI design and graphic standards documentation to help enforce Innovation’s brand coherence, accessibility standards and cross-site consistency
- Source and treat brand-compliant images and ensure that we meet all brand standards
- Plan and execute usability testing and stakeholder interviews to solicit feedback from external users and internal teams with the intention of incorporating the feedback into concept and/or application development
- Drive digital transformations to simplify the experience for our members.
- Develop and manage business plans and budgets ensuring principles of cost control and appropriate resource allocation is maintained
Visit the CAREERS page or our website to learn more about this position and to apply. www.innovationcu.ca Only those applications received through our job board will be considered.
Would you like to earn above average pay helping members meet their financial goals, maintain a strong work life balance, a flexible schedule and have the security of a career – path supported by your organization? We offer that and so much more.
THE COMPANY – Our Purpose is to redefine banking by helping Canadians simplify their lives and reach their financial goals by reinvesting profits into our members, communities and our people. Now that Responsible Banking!
Click the link below to see what Innovation Credit Union is about! Trust us, you are going to want to learn more about who we are!
Innovation Credit Union – About Us (innovationcu.ca)
THE POSITION: The Manager, Operational Risk reports to the Chief Risk Officer and leads the development and implementation of the operational risk management framework. The manager of operational risk will collaboratively work with internal business units and teams to perform operational risk assessments and ensure appropriate plans are established to align to Risk Appetite. The Manager, Operational Risk will monitor operational risk issues and will provide regular reporting to both Senior Management and the Board of Director’s Risk Committee. The position will play a key role in championing and instilling an effective enterprise wide risk management culture. How does one do this? Glad you asked!
A Manager, Operational Risk does the following:
- Develop operational risk policies and practices to ensure Operational Risk Management framework evolves with the changing needs and risk profile of the credit union.
- Keeps abreast if latest operational risk management techniques and industry best practices.
- Works with internal teams and business units to identify key operational risks, facilitates risk control self assessments and ensure business units build appropriate action plans to address operational risk issues.
- Monitor operational risk issues and action plans for the credit union and provide consolidated reporting to board and senior management.
- Assist in investigation of root causes of operational risk and will provide support to mitigate risk.
- Support the management of development and validation approaches to credit union risk modeling and measurement, risk assessment and mitigation within the ORM and ERM frameworks
- Provide management and development in context to the ORM Framework
- Identify deficiencies and advise of potential risk situations
- Monitor and evaluate policy and procedures for enterprise risk and make recommendations for improvement to ensure policies and procedures are enacted accurately and effectively communicate key control provisions
- Create and maintain a constructive culture that is conducive to team achievement, productivity improvement and professionalism
Why Should You Apply?
- You want to be an ambassador of a forward-thinking, member focused organization
- You have a university degree in Commerce, Business Administration, Public Administration, Law, or a related discipline; plus 4-6 years of job-related experience (or an equivalent combination of education, experience and learning, preferably within the credit union system)
- You will have or will be willing to work towards a Risk Management certification.
- You have a track record of success in quality control and assurance as it relates to operational risk
- You have strong attention to detail, organizational awareness, and you are strategic in nature
- Have a strong understanding of the Microsoft Environment, workflows, and file management
- Previous operational risk management experience in a federally regulated financial institution is preferred but not necessary.
Visit the CAREERS page or our website to learn more about this position and to apply. www.innovationcu.ca Only those applications received through our job board will be considered.
