SENIOR SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR TECHNOLOGY SERVICES – City of Toronto

Title of the Job: SENIOR SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Location: Toronto, ON

Job Description:

• Job ID: 49795
• Job Category: Information & Technology
• Division & Section: Technology Services, Technology Standardization Delivery
• Work Location: Metro Hall, 55 John St
• Job Type & Duration: Full-time, Temporary (12-month) Vacancy
• Salary: $112,280.00 – $149,247.00, Wage Grade 7.5
• Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
• Affiliation: Non-Union
• Number of Positions Open: 1
• Posting Period: 07-Oct-2024 to 22-Oct-2024

Major Responsibilities:Lead and manage the QA and test teams, ensuring high standards of work quality, effective teamwork, and continuous learning while encouraging innovation in others.Supervise the day-to-day operations of the QA team, including scheduling, assigning, and reviewing work, coordinating vacations and overtime, evaluating staff performance, and managing salary increments and grievances.Design, develop, and implement automated test frameworks using tools like Selenium, Appium, TestNG, and JUnit. Incorporate scripting languages such as Python and JavaScript to ensure efficiency in automated testing for API and UI components.Oversee and manage test strategies for API and UI components, including functional, regression, and performance testing, ensuring comprehensive quality control for various applications.Oversee test environments, manage CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab), and ensure seamless test automation and continuous software delivery.Implements detailed plans and recommends policies/procedures regarding program specific requirements.Supervises, motivates and trains assigned staff, ensuring effective teamwork, high standards of work quality and organizational performance, continuous learning and encourages innovation in others.Supervises the day to day operation of all assigned staff including the scheduling, assigning and reviewing of work. Authorizes and co-ordinates vacation and overtime requests. Monitors and evaluates staff performance, approves salary increments, hears grievances and recommends disciplinary action when necessary.Provides input into and administers assigned budget, ensuring that expenditures are controlled and maintained within approved budget limitations.Leads, facilitates and contributes to the design, creation, development and sustainment of corporate standards for the division, including formalized project management and methodology, data warehousing architecture, data modeling, metadata, change management, and application development and migration.Responsible to senior management within the division, business and technical stakeholders for all aspects of assigned projects, including the project charter, project plan and schedule, progress, budget, risk management, issue management, change management, resource management, quality review/best practices.Provides project budget and financial management such as sole source requests; contract negotiations; leasing agreements; business cases; feasibility and cost/benefit analysis.Prepares and/or supervises the preparation of various formal contractual documents such as Request For Information/Proposal/Quotation (RFI/P/Q), Statement Of Work (SOW), Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) and Service Level Agreements (SLA).Provides leadership in the evaluation, selection and recommendation of new testing technologies and methodologies, focusing on automation and continuous integration to optimize efficiency.Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including development and business stakeholders, to translate business requirements into effective test plans and frameworks.Negotiates with senior management, clients and various stakeholders often with competing and conflicting goals, objectives and priorities.Provides assessments and recommendations of new technology trends on the effective use, acquisition and integration of technology by the City.Identifies and analyzes current business processes and practices in the context of evolving information architecture and performance measures; prepares feasibility study and recommends overall technical solutions for business initiatives and leverage existing enterprise infrastructure investments.Recommends and implements security, privacy and quality assurance requirements consistent with both the Municipal Freedom of Information Privacy and Protection Act (MFIPPA), and corporate and legislated standards regarding the storage, processing and retention of confidential data.Recommends, establishes, and sustains various project management structures that span one or more levels of government such as the Provincial Offence Act and Social Housing downloading initiatives.Assesses and recommends scalable multi-jurisdictional business and technical solutions that meet client and business requirements in the context of corporate standards, policies and procedures for information technologies and architectures. This includes determining requirements, conducting research and evaluations and obtaining all approvals and signoffs.Informs and educates senior managers, business users and technology peers on technology trends, and the effective use of business and technology solutions and information management.Key qualifications * Education: Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and related experience in software testing or quality assurance.

• Extensive experience with test automation frameworks, including Selenium, Appium, TestNG, and JUnit, as well as scripting languages such as Python and JavaScript for automating tests.
• Extensive experience with test management, issue tracking, and documentation tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and XRAY, with a proven ability to generate detailed test plans and manage bug tracking workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly using GitLab CI/CD for automating the testing and deployment of software, ensuring continuous integration and delivery.
• Considerable experience leading software quality assurance teams, including designing and executing both manual and automated testing strategies in complex business environments such as finance.
• Considerable experience in testing APIs with S/4HANA, with familiarity in testing REST APIs and handling JSON and XML data formats.
• Experience with test reporting, including generating and interpreting key quality metrics to provide insights into the effectiveness of testing and overall software quality.
• Extensive leadership experience, including supervising, motivating, and training test teams, with strong project management skills to deliver quality software on time and within budget.
• Considerable experience collaborating with business stakeholders, software developers, and technical teams to understand business needs and ensure high-quality software solutions.
• Extensive experience setting strategic priorities, developing test strategies, and creating test automation frameworks that ensure comprehensive software quality assurance and reduce manual effort.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, enabling you to interact effectively with technical teams, business units, and senior management.
• Highly developed problem-solving and conflict resolution skills, with the ability to address testing bottlenecks and prioritize defect resolution to maintain software quality.
• Strategic thinking skills, with the ability to create recommendations that improve the overall quality of software delivery and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Extensive experience bridging technical and business concepts, ensuring that both technical teams and business stakeholders understand test outcomes, risks, and quality metrics.
• Exceptionally self-motivated and detail-oriented, with the ability to drive projects to completion while maintaining high-quality standards.

Note To Current City of Toronto EmployeesCity of Toronto employees are eligible to apply for the posted job opportunity, but cannot hold two different jobs. To be considered for this job posting, you must indicate that you are a “Current City of Toronto employee” on the on-line application form, and provide your “Employee Number”.Equity, Diversity and InclusionThe City is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to creating a workplace culture of inclusiveness that reflects the diverse residents that we serve. Learn more about the City’s commitment to .AccommodationThe City of Toronto is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive organization. We are committed to providing barrier-free and accessible employment practices in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). Should you require Code-protected accommodation through any stage of the recruitment process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to meet your needs. . Learn more about the City’s .

Company Name: City of Toronto

Salary: $112280 – 149247 per year

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