Quality Engineer II

Quality Engineer II at TD

Building a World-Class Technology Team at TD

We can't afford to be boring. Neither can you. The scale and scope of what TD does may surprise you. The rapid pace of change makes it a business imperative for us to be smart and open-minded in the way we think about technology. TD's technology and business teams become more intertwined as new opportunities present themselves. This new era in banking does not equal boring. Not at TD, anyway.

TD Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) covers a specialized area dedicated to high-quality application and solution delivery. Similar to industry trends, TD's definition of this area of discipline (as well as skill and knowledge requirements) has changed over time. One thing hasn't changed – experts in this area remain highly-marketable across businesses.

Some of our testing activities may focus on system integration, performance, operability and deployment verification. Quality Assurance activities, in contrast, give stakeholders information about product or service quality while allowing the business to appreciate and understand any implementation risks. Many Testing & QA Experts could be involved in end-to-end delivery of testing, or more focused on a specific discipline.

There's room to grow in all of it.

Position Overview

We need someone to provide research, analysis, design, execution, maintenance and/or support of testing solutions that are appropriate to the application, solution and project, as assigned.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise with a focus on efficiency to fulfill quality objectives
• Plan, design, and execute test activities in compliance with enterprise and industry standards
• End to End leadership in Test Strategy and planning including all types of testing activities ensuring solutions meet business requirements and quality needs
• Be the single or primary point of engagement for overall Test Strategy, planning and execution and be involved in demand intake, capacity forecasting, project/system or platform lifecycle management, and delivery
• Facilitate and develop effective test solutions, provide cost estimates, and deliverables and providing expertise to enable optimal cost of quality
• Define and track metrics to instill a data-driven decision-making culture
• Present risks and mitigations using data where appropriate
• Drive/utilize technology capabilities to develop, and execute testing in the most effective fashion within a Platform or Project
• Develop, enhance, and deploy automation frameworks and Service Virtualization among other capabilities
• Develop and automate tests, driving in-sprint automation and integrating tests to support CI/CD/CT

Job Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science or related Engineering discipline; or equivalent practical experience
• 3-5 years relevant experience.
• Hands on role focused on test automation activities with high level of complexity
• As a Test Lead for complex initiatives, accountable for implementing effective test strategies and plans, test design / development test case automation and test execution to achieve business outcomes.
• Provides QE leadership, direction and feedback throughout the development and design process; provides test development / automation support to ensure that the quality of the intended solution is met.
• Leverage strong knowledge to understand technical solutions to build optimized test approaches, inclusive of the tooling strategy
• Strong knowledge of test data management to reuse automated test data provisioning capabilities
• Effectively engineer and leverage tools and Engineering practices (DevOps tools and processes, source code management, Service Virtualization, monitoring tools, etc
• Implement functional and/or non-functional automation frameworks (performance, readiness / reliability testing (ORT), accessibility, security) including script development and execution, and ensure automated tests are integrated into the Continuous Integration (CI), delivery, and testing (CI/CD/CT) pipelines
• Play a key role in developing, documenting, and proactively identifying end-to-end test solution designs and early automation opportunities
• Work collaboratively with the development team to define and validate user stories, acceptance criteria and Definition of Done (DoD) / Ready (DoR)
• Apply the principles of behavior / Test Driven Development (BDD / TDD) and focus on value driven outcomes
• Leads Proof of Concepts (POCs) to evaluate new technologies geared towards better, faster, more secure testing activities (such as Service Virtualization, DevOps, BDD, Test Data Management)

Key skills/competency

• Test Automation
• Quality Assurance
• Test Strategy
• CI/CD/CT
• Service Virtualization
• DevOps
• BDD/TDD
• System Integration Testing
• Performance Testing
• Test Data Management