[Remote] Quality Assurance Specialist - (Automation / Contact Centre applications)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BMO is a leading financial institution that emphasizes positive change in business and life. They are seeking a Quality Assurance Specialist to ensure the quality of technology products by designing, developing, and executing test plans while collaborating with various teams throughout the development lifecycle.


Responsibilities

  • Ensures the quality of the products that technology delivers, working closely with all applications, common services/middleware, and infrastructure teams throughout the development/engineering lifecycle
  • Designs, develops, executes, and maintains test plans of infrastructure, common services/middleware, data, and applications in various environments
  • Records and documents testing results (including anomalies and issues) and compares them to expected results
  • Detects solution failures so that defects may be discovered and corrected
  • Generates historical analysis of test results and maintains a list/repository of defects
  • Reviews and interprets all documentation related to testing, including business requirements and functional and design specifications, to provide input to the project team on the planning of testing activities
  • Provides immediate response to production program problems
  • Conducts independent analysis and assessment to resolve strategic issues
  • Supports the execution of strategic initiatives in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
  • Monitors and tracks performance, and addresses any issues
  • Breaks down strategic problems, and analyses data and information to provide insights and recommendations
  • Leads and implements core initiatives with complete test strategies
  • Able to develop test automation suites, design frameworks, and define standards
  • Oversees several test projects simultaneously and provides scheduling support to operations
  • Ensures that systems and software are functionally appropriate, technically sound and well integrated
  • Reviews, evaluates, and derives requirements for testability
  • Designs, develops, executes, and maintains testing strategies and plans to ensure stability and efficiency, enabling a seamless customer experience
  • Executes and verifies test cases as part of the overall functional testing of Information Technology products as well as reporting defects and test results to the stakeholders
  • Recommends approaches to streamline and integrate technological processes and systems in the organization to improve overall efficiency and improve the bank
  • Ensures the accuracy and consistency of test results through documentation processes
  • Follows BMO’s SDLC process
  • Communicates the overall quality of a deliverable and ensures metrics are used to drive delivery and identify any areas of concern
  • Participates in programs/projects across the enterprise
  • Participates as an active stakeholder in every initiative, driving quality based on fact-based metrics
  • Ensures development teams’ unit testing practices are in place and confirms core criteria met prior to integrated testing delivery
  • Proactively provides improvement opportunities to the team to enhance the customer experience
  • Drives the testing automation capabilities
  • Identifies opportunities to strengthen the quality assurance capability, such as: sharing expertise to promote technical development, mentoring employees, building communities of practice and networks
  • Stays abreast of industry technical and business trends through participation in professional associations, practice communities & individual learning
  • Focus is primarily on business/group within BMO; may have broader, enterprise-wide focus
  • Exercises judgment to identify, diagnose, and solve problems within given rules
  • Works independently on a range of complex tasks, which may include unique situations
  • Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed

Skills

  • Typically, 4-6+ years of work experience in IT or business environment and/or B.S./B.A. in computer science, engineering, information systems, math or business
  • Proficient level of knowledge in IVR/Contact Centre Applications
  • Demonstrates advanced knowledge of one or more areas of Contact Centre technology such as Routing, Quality Management, Computer Telephony Integration
  • Knowledge of the SDLC, testing concepts, methodologies, metrics, automated testing frameworks and BMO documentation standards
  • Understanding of BMO applications and infrastructure components
  • Experience with Contact Centre Environments and related software packages
  • Experience with IVR testing, JIRA, and Confluence
  • Problem solving skills including the ability to troubleshoot and identify problem areas throughout testing
  • Collaborate well with others. Ability to translate technical concepts into easy to understand terms
  • Able to analyze data and use testing metrics to highlight improvement opportunities
  • Technical proficiency gained through education and/or business experience
  • Verbal & written communication skills - In-depth
  • Collaboration & team skills - In-depth
  • Analytical and problem solving skills - In-depth
  • Influence skills - In-depth
  • Data driven decision making - In-depth
  • Experience with Cyara Velocity, Cruncher and Pulse testing tools
  • Experience with CCaaS/Amazon Connect
  • Experience with agile methodologies and building test data requirements
  • Familiarity with Contact Centre software packages (Genesys Inbound, Routing, Reporting & Outbound, Verint Call/Screen recording & speech analytics, NICE WFM, Nuance NDF & Voice Biometrics)

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Accident and life insurance
  • Retirement savings plans

Company Overview

  • We’re a bank, but there’s more to it than that. ​ When you join BMO, it opens a world of opportunities. It was founded in 1817, and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, CAN, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.bmo.com.

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • BMO has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7 in 2025, 2 in 2024, 6 in 2023, 4 in 2022, 2 in 2021, 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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