**Requisition ID**: 230804 **Employee Referral Program - Potential Reward**: $0.00 We are committed to investing in our employees and helping you continue your career at ScotiaTech. **Purpose** Contributes to the overall success of the QA / Global Enterprise Technology / Quality Assurance Automation in Bogota, Colombia ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures. **Accountabilities** - Design and execute automated test cases - Design and execute manual test cases - Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge. - Supervise and co-ordinate testing for projects/releases: - Design UAT test plans; assign and review test documentation (functions, testcases, scripts); balance the need to mitigate risk with the optimal use of testing resources while adhering to UAT policies, standards and procedures. - Schedule and approve the release of projects into the UAT environment; execute complex test plans and supervise the execution of testing, co-ordinating resources, people and environments on a daily basis to meet the specific requirements for a project; manage multiple stakeholders with conflicting time and needs requirements; co-ordinate code delivery with external service providers. - Continually evaluate priorities for various projects in response to frequent directional changes and take decisive action as required. - Assess the results of UAT tests and take appropriate action; work closely with the development group to resolve defects; escalate issues to management when necessary; make recommendations to release the code to Production. - Work with individual project teams, during the software development life cycle, to ensure business and technical requirements have been fulfilled; contribute recommendations and assessments to ongoing project reviews - Forecast workday estimates based upon project documentation; monitor resource demands and escalate resource shortfalls or conflicts as required - Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions. - Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk. - Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment. **Reporting Relationships (Job Titles only)** Primary Manager: (include secondary Manager if applicable) - Quality Assurance Functional Manager / Quality Assurance Functional Senior Manager Direct Reports: Quality Assurance Functional Manager / Quality Assurance Functional Senior Manager Shared Reports (solid/dotted if applicable): **Dimensions** - Expertise in SQL, JAVA, Selenium, and other automated testing tools are critical to the automation journey, working cohesively with manual testers and developers to produce nothing short of high-quality work in exciting high-profile projects to put quality products to market. - This role will be hybrid between Automation and Functional Testing - Proven work experience in software test automation. - Hands-on experience with automated testing tools; - Proven work experience in software quality assurance; - Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes; - Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases; - Demonstrable, practical hands on experience writing simple or complex SQL queries for data validation - Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting. - Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing; - Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process; - Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus - Demonstrable, practical hands on experience using JIRA - Strong communication skills in both English and Spanish and a demonstrated ability to resolve escalated issues effectively - Ability to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple competing priorities - Results focused innovator, passionate about the success of their team. - B1 level of English **Education / Experience / Other Information (include only those that are specific to the role)** - A degree in computer science, IT Business/Management or engineering related discipline is desirable, - 1+ years of demonstrable, practical hands on experience as a QA Test Automation Engineer or Software developer **Working Conditions** - Work in a standard office-based environment / Hybrid Model ; non-standard hours are a common occurrence. I have reviewed and unde