Fullstack Job: Quality Assurance - Software Developer

Quality Assurance / Software Developer

Total Systems Solutions Consulting Inc. represents an association of independent IMITS Consultants based in British Columbia. We are seeking a Quality Assurance Software Developer Consultant for the Registries and Online Services, Service BC, Ministry of Citizen’s Services, Province of British Columbia. You must be available to work 100% remote full-time 40 hours per week.

Background

The BC Registries and Online Services (BC-ROS) team administers and supports BC Online and all incorporations and registrations of businesses, not-for-profit societies, cooperatives, personal property and manufactured homes in the Province of BC. These services are provided through a number of channels including in-person, phone and online.

BC-ROS is replacing its legacy applications, including mainframe applications, with modern tech stacks that support a DevOps continuous improvement approach to the delivery of digital services. A new set of BC-ROS agile product teams will develop the new applications at the Province's Continuous Service Improvement (CSI) Lab, a government accelerator for Agile software teams with a strong community of software developers. The Agile team will use the Agile Methodology, human-centered design, open source languages and frameworks, and a cutting-edge enterprise containerization platform.

The successful candidate(s) will be Quality Assurance/ Software Developer for a BC-ROS agile product team, with a team of approximately 7 people, that are developing the new function using the agile Methodology, human- centered design, open-source languages and frameworks, and a cutting-edge enterprise containerization platform. The successful candidate will be reporting to the person designated by the Province Project Authority within the BC Registries and Online Services, Service BC, Ministry of Citizen’s Services, Province of British Columbia.

BC-ROS is undertaking multiple, concurrent re-development projects driven by a deadline for retiring BC province mainframe services and modernizing non-mainframe services. BC-ROS is also adding functionality to its modern application platform to support Provincial commitments, using modern tech stacks that support a DevOps continuous improvement approach to the delivery of digital services. The BC Registries projects utilize agile development.

Availability

The anticipated term of this opportunity is for 4 years starting April 1st. It is expected that the Contractor will work 100% remotely.

Qualifications and Experience.

The Quality Assurance/ Software Developer is required to have the following skills and experience:

• At least five years of experience developing and implementing solutions for test automation processes, tools and techniques;
• At least three years of experience performing, developing, maintaining and enhancing automated test suites;
• At least three years of experience developing automated test cases;
• Knowledge and experience working in agile software development environment using modern technology stacks, tools and techniques, including: RESTful APIs, open source technologies, continuous delivery, automated testing, microservices-based architecture, and Kubernetes or similar container management platforms; and
• Experience coaching and mentoring other quality assurance practitioners to build the team’s capacity.
• Experience developing test automation solutions in an open source environment.
• Experience developing test automation solutions within an environment with continuous delivery pipelines.
• Experience working within a scaled Agile-Scrum program.
• Experience with containerization, such as Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
• Experience providing test automation solutions to ensure compliance with non-functional requirements and established privacy and security standards.

Please answer all the questions In the following questionnaire. You are asked to name the organization(s) on your resume where you have acquired the relevant experience..

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 48 months

Salary: Up to $75.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

• Can you name the organization(s) on your resume where you had experience with Agile Scrum Framework ceremonies
• Can you name the organization(s) on your resume where you developing test automation processes

Experience:

• developing test automation processes, tools and techniques: 5 years (required)
• maintaining automated test suites: 3 years (required)
• developing automated test cases: 2 years (required)
• with Agile Scrum Framework ceremonies: 3 years (required)
• open source tools & stacks incl. RESTful APIs: 3 years (required)
• containerization, Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift: 3 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Certified Associate in SW (CAST), ISTQB Tester or equivalent (preferred)

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 2023-03-09
Expected start date: 2023-04-01