ISL R - Senior QA Analyst

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Posting Title

ISL 27R - Senior QA Analyst

Position Classification

Information Systems R27

Union

GEU

Work Options

Location

Burnaby, BC V3J 1N3 CA (Primary)

Salary Range

$88,130.70 - $ per annum (plus Market Adjustment of 9.9%)

Close Date

Job Type

Regular Full Time

Temporary End Date

Ministry/Organization

Ministry Branch / Division

Liquor Distribution Branch of BC

Job Summary

Posting Closing Date:
Applications will continue to be accepted until a closing date is determined. The closing date will be published with 5 days’ notice.

About the BCLDB:

The BC Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB) is one of two branches of government that provide oversight for the beverage alcohol and non-medical cannabis industries in the province. The LDB is responsible for the wholesale distribution of liquor and cannabis, and operates the retails brands BCLIQUOR and BC Cannabis Stores.

The LDB is committed to government’s goals of making life better for people in B.C., improving services, and ensuring a sustainable province for future generations. The revenue generated by the LDB helps fund essential public services like health care, education, and community programming. Learn more on the LDB careers page.

LDB’s Information Technology (IT) team consists of seven competency areas:
Customer Experience, Infrastructure & Operations (I&O), Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, Software Services, Data Services, and IT Program Governance. Currently five divisions managed by IT Directors collectively are responsible for all of the seven competency areas to deliver the IT mandate of supporting LDB’s corporate and business operations and enabling future needs and initiatives.

At present, the IT team consists of more than 200+ full-time employees and includes a sourcing strategy to leverage external expertise to ensure the integrated IT team continues to deliver LDB’s strategic initiatives timely and of high quality.

The IT department of the LDB is responsible for the entire computing infrastructure for all of the 230+ BCLIQUOR stores, BC Cannabis Stores as well as LDB’s head office in Burnaby and four warehouse/distribution centres including Delta, Kamloops, Richmond, and Victoria. The IT department also manages three data centres located in Burnaby, Delta, and Kamloops.

About this role:

Reporting to the QA Manager, the Senior QA Analyst is responsible for test planning, presenting plans, identifying areas of improvement, creating and upgrading QA processes, creating reports, analyzing QA metrics, enforcing established QA processes, and liaising and coordinating with the operational lines of business. The Senior QA Analyst performs analysis of requirements, analyzing and confirming ability to test; defect tracking; development of automated test scripts/scenarios traceable to requirements using programming in Java, Python or C# and using tools(such as Egg Plant).

This role is responsible for performing manual and automated testing, performance testing, analysis and initial prioritization of defects, issues or change requests; running defect triage meetings and daily scrums to track project testing progress and designing, establishing, maintaining the test automation framework along with the automated regression and sanity test suite. The Senior QA Analyst provides coaching and mentoring to junior QAs on best QA practices and processes.

A successful completion of a criminal record check is required.

For complete details about this opportunity, including accountabilities, please refer to the attached job description, also located in the Additional Information section at the bottom of the posting.

An eligibility list for permanent or temporary future opportunities may be established.

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