Senior Developer, Quality Engineer for CDT/PACT (English Services) (Telework)

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Work at CBC/Radio-Canada

At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance. 
 
Do you think you have the ability and drive to keep up with this exciting, ever-changing industry? Whether it be in front of the camera, on air, online or behind the scenes, you would be joining a team that thrives on making connections and telling stories that are important to Canadians.

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At the CBC, we all have a story to tell. What’s yours?

If you share our passion for Canadian storytelling and you wish to help us engage with individuals and communities across our various digital platforms, this is where you’ll want to be!

Every day, you will have an opportunity to shape the way in which Canadians see themselves reflected in our digital services. Your work will have a direct impact on how millions of Canadians from various communities connect with our products, with one another, and with the diverse voices that make our country so unique.

You will have the opportunity to play a part in enlightening and entertaining Canadians through our innovative work in building the mediums that deliver our content. We are an innovative hub, where the talented professionals we work with are respected and valued for their contributions. Our product teams are vibrant and our work culture strives to achieve the highest standards of diversity and inclusion. We believe that hiring people with different career paths and backgrounds is fundamental in our shared success and in building healthy and highly performant teams. When you join our mission, you are not only shaping the vision of the CBC, but the future of our country.

Collaboration and performance at CBC is both a mindset and an approach. At CBC Digital Strategy and Products, we’re people- and outcome-focused. We believe that people are at their best when they have flexibility in how and where they work.

There is an opportunity for this to be a full-time teleworking position. Work arrangements will be discussed with hiring managers per departmental guidelines.

Here’s why we should work together:

Our digital teams’ values - collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement - embody who we are as a people-focused, digital-forward employer. We follow lean startup principles and use an Agile approach. Our dedicated people managers work closely with every individual to ensure we are leveraging their strengths, championing their ideas and supporting their pursuit of new skills and their desired career progression.

Here at CBC Digital Strategy & Products, we want you to be happy and feel good at work.  It is essential that work be a safe space where our employees are able to share their authentic selves with one another and to push each other to challenge conventions.

Why is this role important?

CBC/Radio-Canada’s Content Distribution team provides the foundation for other technologists to access content, metadata and user data to allow them to optimize the presentation of stories and media to Canadians on any digital platform.

The team’s mandate is to federate content produced by CBC for distribution across CBC’s applications and broadly to content aggregators worldwide, delivering News, Sports, Podcasts, and On-demand audio information to thousands of Canadians.

The team is responsible for the storage and organization of CBC's multiple content types to distribute to audience-facing teams through fast, flexible, scalable services leveraging Spring, Hibernate, PostgreSQL and GraphQL.

This is a chance to take on the unique challenges the sheer volume of in-house generated data presents; to use new and continuously changing technologies, create and maintain APIs that power various CBC platforms. Most of all, it’s an opportunity to bring CBC’s content to the world.

What you can expect working in the Content Distribution Team:

The Content Distribution team comprises of technical experts who work together collaboratively to produce great outcomes. We believe in agile ways of working and we work in Kanban. The key values we believe in are Collaboration, Learning and Continuous Improvement, which are our department’s core values. The team’s mission is “to store and organize CBC's content to distribute to audience-facing teams”. A few characteristics of how it might be to work on this team are listed below:

• Opportunity to try and learn new things.
• Work with people who are creative and passionate to solve complex problems.
• Unique perspective on how the organization creates and consumes content.
• Working with cool technologies.
• Work with talented developers.
• Collaborative and supportive team.
• Remote working.
• In-office socials.
• Frontend, backend, and middleware.
• Constructive disagreements (good listeners, open minded).

How you will make an impact:

• You will take the lead and partner with the other Quality Engineers in your team to coach in the practice of automated testing.
• You will expand the automated regression testing framework for our APIs/GraphQL to ensure they behave as designed.
• You will maintain high-quality standards of automation testing, perform manual testing and contribute to the existing code based on insights gained from automation testing.
• You will research and apply best practices. You will recommend research-based or experience-based automation tools.
• You will integrate Test Automation execution into the existing Continuous Integration workflow with Atlassian Bamboo and Bitbucket, Jenkins and Docker.
• Create detailed and well-structured test plans, test cases and test reports.
• Analyze document requirements and build test cases as part of the development evaluation efforts.
• You will be collaborating with other teams in end to end testing to ensure that the entire stack of products, including UI/UX, content management, and data analytics, all function smoothly together.
• You will be responsible for writing and supporting the developers to write automated test cases and suites to ensure quality and quick deployments using latest and best practices.

What you bring to our team:

• You have the education: A Computer Science, Engineering, Math degree or equivalent is preferred, but we know not everyone gains their programming skills this way.
• You have expertise in quality engineering practices including unit, integration, functional, regression, exploratory, accessibility, and end to end testing.
• You have the knowledge and understanding of software design, development.
• You have an understanding of using various backend frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate and databases such as PostgreSQL.
• You have an understanding of application flow, from the data layer to the UI.
• You have experience in testing the integration of API endpoints.
• You can quickly learn new technologies and respond to change by learning and adapting.
• You know how to listen and relay empathy and understanding for diverse perspectives.
• You thrive in a team-focused environment.
• You are comfortable working in an Agile environment, and you are flexible and open to real-world twists and turns; and you are comfortable with iterative and incremental development.

Skills to thrive on the team:

Must haves (with a minimum of 3 years’ experience):

• Expertise with test automation frameworks such as Cypress and Playwright
• Expertise with testing REST API endpoints
• Expertise with SQL & relational databases e.g. Postgres
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with CI/CD and version control
• Experience with an HTTP web server environment e.g. Tomcat
• Experience working on platforms such as Linux and MacOS
• Experience with at least 2 coding languages (Javascript, TypeScript, Java, Python)

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience working with React
• Experience working with TypeScript
• Experience with version control software such as Git, Bitbucket, etc.
• Experience with Workflow/CI/CD tools such as Bamboo, Jenkins, etc
• Experience or knowledge of contract-based testing (such as PACT)
• Interest, experience, and/or education in cybersecurity
• Interest, experience in AI tools that support Quality Engineering
• Interest, experience with unit & integration testing frameworks e.g. JUnit
• Interest in learning new skills and tools

Perks you can look forward to:

• Flexible work schedules, allowing you to prioritize yourself, your family and your work.
• Work from home opportunities.
• Competitive total rewards package.
• Opportunities to work with cutting edge technology.
• Opportunities for continued learning and professional development.
• Opportunities to become a member of our Employee Resource Groups.
• Pair programming and mentorship opportunities, where you can learn from the best in the industry and help coach new talent.
• A creative and dynamic work environment, where your ideas and contributions can be heard, valued and respected.
• A supportive management team committed to upholding the highest standards of diversity and inclusivity.
• An environment which favours experimentation and an iterative approach in order to achieve the highest form of technical innovation.

To Apply:

At the CBC, we recognize that not everyone takes the same path when it comes to building their skills. We value diversity of thought and of experience, and we are excited to hear from you! Hands-on experience, intelligence, innovation, a passion for learning, and a team-focused approach can combine to form the best set of qualifications. If you feel you meet most of the qualifications and you are excited by the possibility of adding to the rich culture of the CBC, take a chance and express your interest by applying now!

If you’re interested in reading more about the various backgrounds of the talented people that make up our teams, our exciting new projects, and what we’re currently working on, check out our Digital Labs blog on Medium!

Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.
 

We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

As part of our recruitment process, candidates who advance to the next

step will be asked to complete a background check. This includes:  

• A mandatory Criminal record check. 

• Other background checks may be conducted based on the operational requirements of the position.

CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity. That’s because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country. That’s why we, as an employer, value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canada’s public broadcaster. For more information, visit the Diversity and Inclusion section of our website. If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to recruitment@cbc.ca.
 
You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our corporate website. All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment. We also invite you to take a look at our policy on conflicts of interest. In the event that you become an employee, it will be important to inform us, as quickly as possible, of any situation that, because of your hiring, constitutes or could appear to constitute a conflict of interest.

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