Team Lead, Quality Assurance- Data Warehouse Testing

Team Lead, Quality Assurance - Data Warehouse Testing

Who we are

We are an organization comprised of industry thought leaders who are passionate about health data and want to make a difference in the health care field. We are an independent, not-for-profit organization and together with our partners we provide essential information on Canada’s health systems, enabling decisions that lead to healthier Canadians. As a valued member of the CIHI team, you and your work will have a pivotal role in the evolution of Canada’s health care systems.

CIHI is recognized as an exceptional place to work that embraces diversity, respect, integrity, collaboration and innovation. Learn about our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and the work being done to create a more inclusive and welcoming organization by focusing on how we learn, govern and practise.

At CIHI, we recognize what matters to our employees. Some of the benefits of working at CIHI include

• Retirement Planning Program
• Generous vacation days for permanent and long‑term contracts
• Work‑life balance
• Learning and Professional Development Program
• Flexible benefits program from your first day on the job for permanent and long‑term contracts

Why is this role important?

The Team Lead, Quality Assurance is responsible for working with ITS staff and business units to oversee the implementation of quality assurance and quality control processes to ensure delivery of high quality, error‑free applications to CIHI’s internal and external users operating within specified availability parameters. The Team Lead, QA develops and maintains the ITS Quality Assurance processes and supporting standards, guidelines and documentation.

• Provides leadership and guidance to staff. Supervises, coaches, coordinates, and monitors daily work, workload and performance of staff to ensure quality is maintained and that learning opportunities are provided. Provides feedback on performance to QA Manager and leadership.
• As the QA representative on project initiatives, leads and participates in the design and development of test automation and test frameworks for data pipelines and ETL testing contributing to the evolution of CIHI’s QA methodology around process and technology.
• Leads and participates in visualization of End to End (E2E) testing pipeline and planning involving back‑end data testing, API and integration with front‑end user perspective both functional, performance and automation testing capability and planning.
• Researches and liaises with ITS Management and staff as well as business units to assist in the development of QA policies, procedures and best practices for all systems development activities, including standard templates, testing protocols, sign‑off and acceptance procedures and criteria. Responsible for test infrastructure and architecture including long‑term maturity of test practices, automated regression testing, scheduling and monitoring.
• Leads and contributes to all Data Warehousing and Front‑end testing initiatives for projects including Test Strategy/Plan creation, QA test case creation and execution, defect management process and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with internal business units.
• Acts as a visionary to help advance technology, approach and implementation strategies in‑line with latest trends in Quality Engineering and Assurance.
• Liaises with ITS staff and business units to review development plans for adherence to quality assurance processes. Working with project teams, ensures project plans allow for sufficient time and activities for quality assurance and testing, and ensures the delivery of high‑quality applications that meet the needs of internal/external users.
• Works with technical users and business units to ensure thorough, systematic, customized testing activity plans are developed for each application. Monitors, moderates and signs off on test plans and results in accordance with the agreed‑upon quality assurance process and plan.
• Ensures deliverables meet requirements for quality assurance and provide guidance on actions/scenarios that may cause error messages within CIHI products.
• Participates as a Quality Assurance (QA)…