Ministry of Health

Victoria

Quality Assurance Lead

$66,557.72 - $75,884.38 annually plus 6.6% Temporary Market Adjustment

The BC Vital Statistics Agency is responsible through legislation for the following registries: births, deaths, stillbirths, marriages, changes of name, adoptions, wills, and the health status registry. The Agency registers all vital events occurring in British Columbia and maintains registries and records of those events. The Systems Unit develops and maintains a variety of applications including several Java-based web applications: an Oracle web forms application, which supports internal operations, and a B2B ebXML messaging system. 

The Quality Assurance (QA) Lead leads all QA activities for system and infrastructure changes at the Agency.  This position is responsible for coordinating and prioritizing the flow of QA work for all systems development projects and maintenance, acting as primary liaison when testing with federal and provincial partners and providing status updates to the Application Architect.  The QA Lead ensures that test strategies and test plans are defined and documented for all VSA Systems in accordance with industry standards. The QA Lead plays a key role in ensuring the integrity, security and quality of the Agency’s information systems and services.

Qualifications for this role include:

•    Degree in computer science or a related discipline and 2 years of related experience in an information technology testing role; or

•    Related certification, program completion, or course work and 3 years of related experience in an information technology testing role; or

•    An equivalent combination of 5 years of education and related experience may be considered

Recent related experience should include:

•    Software testing

•    Developing and executing test cases and documenting test results

•    Interpreting functional and technical specifications

•    Defect tracking

•    Software testing methodologies and SDLC 

For more information and to apply online by May 25, please go to: https://bcpublicservice.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/87335