Service Virtualization Lead - Jobs in Toronto, ON

Job Description

We are Canada LifeBeing a part of Canada Life means you have a voice. This is a place where your unique background, perspectives and talents are valued, and shape our future success.You can be your best here. You’re part of a diverse and inclusive workplace where your career and well-being are championed. You’ll have the opportunity to excel in your way, finding new and better ways to deliver exceptional customer and advisor experiences.Together, as part of a great team, you’ll deliver on our shared purpose to improve the well-being of Canadians. It’s our driving force. Become part of a strong and successful company that’s trusted by millions of Canadians to do the right thing.Be your best at Canada Life.We are looking for a Service Virtualization LeadSuccessful candidate will serve as Service Virtualization Lead, responsible for developing, building, and managing delivery of service virtualization across multiple test environments with high complexity. The candidate will work closely with the application and testing teams. The individual must have good analytical and technical skills coupled with the ability to lead a team and mentor effectively.What you will do

• Plan, facilitate and coordinate all service virtualization activities from inception through completion of entire systems development lifecycle of multiple projects, including estimation, Enterprise strategy, scheduling, status tracking, reporting, and issue and risk mitigating responsibilities
• Organize service virtualization team members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments, and objectives. Act as a point of contact to company’s project management
• Engineer the SV solution that best meets the client’s needs and assist with the implementation of the desired solution
• Analyze enterprise systems and technology stacks to determine service virtualization requirements, use cases and design alternatives
• Work closely with development, QA and performance engineering teams to align with and support enterprise development, testing and application delivery practices
• Perform prototyping and evaluation of solution alternatives and make recommendations to business and technical stakeholders
• Design, build, maintain and manage virtual services leveraging DevTest Solutions platform
• Install, configure and maintain virtual service environments
• Effectively troubleshoot technical integrated solution implementation issues
• As a technical lead contribute product and solution expertise and provide project planning support as required to deliver a successful customer engagement
• Serve as a mentor to other team members who are actively engaged as part of the project team on assigned client engagements
• Help build the knowledge base in the SV communities – including lessons learned, best practices, tools, and methods and learning events
• Work towards improvement of formal service virtualization processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices
• Drive the creation of next generation testing processes, CI, release techniques and test infrastructure to improve on testing and to increase the speed of release cycles
• Manage schedules and quality by overseeing service virtualization deliverables. Identify need for change, determine course of action and revise as appropriate
• Oversee the ongoing review of service virtualization status; identify risks. Develop, recommend, and implement risk mitigation solutions and implement as appropriate
• Provide metrics to the projects leadership and support the life cycle of the change requests

What you will bring

• Bachelor Computer Science / Software Engineering or equivalent degree required
• Minimum 10+ years of demonstrated experience in IT environments
• Minimum 7+ years experience leading Service Virtualization capabilities
• Strong knowledge of all stages of software quality assurance like black box, gray box, white box testing, requirements analysis, test planning, reporting/control and root cause analysis
• Strong understanding of system, integration, regression and user acceptance testing, familiarity with testing tools to include functional automation tools and test case management and defect management tools
• In depth experience in Enterprise Technologies including SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), API Integration, Eventing, Web Services
• Solid knowledge of the installation and configuration of the service virtualization tools (preferably CA DevTest tool)
• Proven experience in multiple environments with designing/programming skills with strong Object Orientated skills using some of the open architecture standards such as APIs, ESB, MOM, BPEL, Servlets, SOAP, WSDL, JSPs, JDBC, SQL, JNDI, XML, HTML and J2EE best practices, design principles and techniques with SOA applications and ESB software (e.g., TIBCO)
• Hands on experience with OO programming languages (JAVA preferred) and scripting (Java, Javascript, Beanshell).
• Hands on experience with using DB applications and SQL programming languages. SQLServer, SQLExpress, Oracle, DB2, etc
• Working experience in SDLC methodologies like Agile/Scrum and waterfall
• Good understanding of best practices around CI/CD pipeline and Continuous Delivery Practices and Tools
• Quality Assurance experience including experience managing and building test processes and frameworks; architecting, designing and delivering QA solutions
• Knowledge and Experience in Mainframe Systems an asset
• Knowledge in DevOps Tools is desirable (eg: Chef, Docker, Jenkins, Bamboo, etc)
• Good knowledge of Testing Automation
• Working knowledge of SOA, SOA Testing, APIs and Microservices
• Working knowledge of MOM and Eventing platforms such as MQ Series, Kafka/Confluent
• Knowledge of Cloud Computing technologies/concepts
• Effective communication skills and self-driver

Be your best at Canada Life- Apply todayWe are one of Canadas top 100 employers!Canada Life serves the financial security needs of more than 13 million people across Canada, with additional operations in Europe and the United States. As members of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies, we’re one of Canada’s leading insurers with interests in life insurance, health insurance, investment and retirement savings. We offer a broad portfolio of financial and benefit plan solutions for individuals, families, businesses and organizations.We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we live, and to creating an environment where every employee has the opportunity to reach their potential.Canada Life would like to thank all applicants, however only those who qualify for an interview will be contactedQuick Apply

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