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Software Quality Engineering Specialist

Full-time

Sun Life

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do.

At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.

When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.

Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

Role Summary:

The Application Operation Services & Quality Engineering (AOSQE) team is a part of the larger Digital Business & Technology Solutions team. Working better together. Our teams provide the services and technology our business partners need to help clients achieve lifetime financial security. We partner closely with groups and individuals throughout Sun Life Financial to provide products and services that deliver business value. Through innovation and collaboration, we're striving to continually find new and better ways to bring value to Sun Life.

AOSQE is looking for a Software Quality Engineer/Software Quality Engineering Specialist with functional, automation testing skills with DB experience to join the Mainframe and Data Testing Chapter . The successful candidate acts as the Quality Advocate and is responsible to ensure the delivery of quality solutions to our clients through testing.

Main Accountabilities:

  • Contribute to designing and implementing effective QE testing strategies through analysis of complex business requirements

  • Advocate for quality within the agile team and actively participate in ceremonies

  • Design, develop detailed test cases to thoroughly test complex use cases and scenarios covering functional requirements

  • Execute manual and/or automated test cases to validate business application logic and identify software defects

  • Collaborate within cross-functional agile team on shift-left testing and automation reuse

  • Document and track product defects, providing detailed reproduction steps, expected and actual results

  • Contribute to the automation and quality engineering best practices within the Agile team

  • Provide timely and effective communication to management, relating to quality, resource and project issues & concerns.

  • Navigate effectively through complex challenges, involving others to solve problems and achieve goals

What You Need to Succeed:

  • 3-5 years of software QA/quality engineering experience

  • Strong experience in creation and execution of both manual and automated test cases, ensuring thorough validation of business application logic against defined requirements

  • Comfortable testing reports, including validating financial data calculation accuracy

  • Solid experience in QE best practices and tools

  • Experience in functional, non-functional, regression, integration and end-to-end testing of Mainframe and front-end applications

  • Hands on experience in test automation frameworks and tools like Tricentis Tosca, Cucumber, Selenium, Python

  • Demonstrated understanding of Agile principles, DevOps, shift-left and in-sprint testing, CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jira/Confluence, qTest or equivalent Test Management tool

  • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and work collaboratively with cross functional team members to analyze and resolve issues

  • Strong communications skills, able to convey complex technical concepts to business partners

  • High attention to detail, strong analytical skills, quick learner and autonomous

Preferred Skills:

  • Insurance domain knowledge and finance/accounting a plus

  • Experience with SQL queries, MongoDB, DB2, IMS

  • Familiarity with Java, Python, C# or other programming languages

  • Knowledge in BDD, TDD testing framework

  • Demonstrated use in prompt engineering in generative AI chatbots and agentic AI for testing

  • Enhanced Reliability Clearance is a plus

What’s in it for you?

  • A competitive salary and bonus program, based on market scale

  • A flexible group insurance program starting on your first day of work to meet your needs and those of your family.

  • Our Share Ownership Program gives you the opportunity to invest in Sun Life while benefiting from employer matching contributions.

  • We are proud to be included in Great Place to Work's 2026 list of Canada's Best Workplaces.

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Rôle

L’équipe Services d’opérations et ingénierie de la qualité des applications (SOIQA) fait partie des Opérations numériques et solutions technologiques, une équipe encore plus grande. Notre devise : mieux travailler ensemble. Nos équipes offrent les services et les solutions technologiques dont nos partenaires d’affaires ont besoin pour aider les clients à atteindre une sécurité financière durable. Nous travaillons en étroite collaboration avec les divisions et les employés afin d’offrir des produits et des services qui apportent de la valeur à nos affaires. Par l’innovation et la collaboration, nous nous efforçons de trouver de nouvelles idées et de meilleures façons d’ajouter de la valeur à la Sun Life.

L’équipe SOIQA recherche un Spécialiste de ingénierie de la qualité des logiciels ayant des compétences en tests fonctionnels, en automatisation des tests et en bases de données pour se joindre au chapitre de test des données et de l’ordinateur central . Le candidat retenu agit en tant que champion de la qualité et est responsable d'assurer la livraison de solutions de qualité à nos clients par le biais des tests.

Principales fonctions :

  • Contribuer à l'analyse des exigences commerciales complexes et de la création d'une stratégie/plan de test pour assurer une couverture exhaustive

  • Concevoir et développer des cas de test détaillés pour tester minutieusement les cas d'usage et scénarios complexes couvrant les exigences fonctionnelles

  • Exécuter des cas de test manuels et/ou automatisés pour valider la logique de l'application commerciale et identifier les défauts logiciels

  • Collaborer au sein d'une équipe agile multifonctionnelle sur les tests shift-left et la réutilisation de l'automatisation

  • Documenter et suivre les défauts des produits, en fournissant les étapes de reproduction détaillées, les résultats attendus et réels

  • Contribuer aux meilleures pratiques en automatisation et en ingénierie de la qualité au sein de l'équipe Agile

  • Fournir une communication opportune et efficace à la direction concernant les enjeux et préoccupations relatifs à la qualité, aux ressources et au projet

  • Naviguer efficacement à travers les défis complexes, en impliquant d'autres personnes pour résoudre les problèmes et atteindre les objectifs

Les compétences pour réussir :

  • 3 à 5 ans d’expérience pertinente, incluant de l’expérience en développement et/ou en assurance qualité.

  • Expérience solide dans la création et l'exécution de cas de test manuels et automatisés, assurant une validation complète de la logique métier des applications par rapport aux exigences définies

  • À l'aise avec les tests de rapports, y compris la validation de l'exactitude des calculs de données financières

  • Expérience solide dans les meilleures pratiques d'IQ et les outils

  • Expérience en tests fonctionnels, non-fonctionnels, de régression, d'intégration et de bout en bout des applications Mainframe et front-end

  • Expérience pratique en automation avec les cadres de travail et outils d'automation de test tels que Tricentis Tosca, Cucumber, Selenium, Python

  • Compréhension démontrée des méthodologies Agile, DevOps, shift-left et des tests en sprint, des pipelines CI/CD et des outils tels que Jira/Confluence, qTest ou un outil de gestion de test équivalent

  • Capacité démontrée à dépanner et travailler en collaboration avec les membres d'équipes interfonctionnelles pour analyser et résoudre les problèmes

  • Excellentes compétences en communication, capable de transmettre des concepts techniques complexes aux partenaires commerciaux

  • Grande attention au détail, fortes compétences analytiques, apprentissage rapide et autonomie

Compétences préférées

  • Connaissances du domaine de l'assurance et comptabilité/finance seraient un atout

  • Expérience avec les requêtes SQL, MongoDB, DB2, IMS

  • Familiarité avec Java, Python, C# ou autres langages de programmation

  • Connaissance des cadres de test BDD et TDD

  • Utilisation démontrée de l'ingénierie de prompts en IA générative pour les tests

  • Cotes de fiabilité un atout

Les avantages pour vous

  • Un salaire et un programme de primes concurrentiels, basés sur l’échelle du marché.
  • Un programme d’assurance collective à la carte dès votre premier jour de travail pour répondre à vos besoins et à ceux de votre famille
  • Notre programme d’actionnariat vous donne la possibilité d’investir dans la Sun Life tout en profitant de cotisations complémentaires de l’employeur.
  • Nous sommes fiers de figurer sur la liste des meilleurs lieux de travail par Great Place to Work Canada en 2026.

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to View email address on jobs.swagapp.com.

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Salary Range:

65,000/65 000 - 105,000/105 000

Job Category:

IT - Application Development

Posting End Date:

25/09/2026
Vacancy posted 18 hours ago
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