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We are looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!     Description Deliverable:

• Assist in carrying out project management functions including charter, change requests, and managing the triple constraint of scope/schedule/budget.
• Familiarity & knowledge of html and other Service Catalogue solutions.
• Comfort using Content Management Systems.
• Establishing governance forums along with PM practices/disciplines to manage key stakeholders via a defined communications strategy.
• Proper documentation and a transfer of knowledge to internal resources will be required in such a way that ensure the work completed by the PM can be understood.

  Responsibilities: 

• Engaging with stakeholders,
• Ensure all IT services/solutions are designed, planned and activated in a consistent manner,
• Establishing an effective executive governance model,
• PM documentation management, including Charter, Scope doc, work breakdown structures, MS Project plans, PCR (Project Change Request) management, Executive Dashboards, summary documentation and other docs leading to the successful outcomes of this project.
• Solid Governance experience and proven record to help influence key stakeholders including overcoming procedural changes to various areas.

  Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements Evaluation Breakdown

1. Strong English Communications skills - 20%

Parameters:

• Influencing, positioning, and documentation skills will be paramount helping to ensure proper collateral is readily available to support initiative.
• Demonstrated experience working with key stakeholders and vendor partners (internal and external) and using communication skills to negotiate and document any project and process-related status information, and obtain support from key stakeholders and clients on project-related deliverables.

 

2. Effective Governance structures including - 20%

Parameters:

• Proven executive level influencing pertaining to people change management.
• Supported by effective Exec dashboards, value statement, evidence of organizational efficiencies and benefits.
• Effective communications ensuring stakeholder engagement, business needs and appropriate outcomes are delivered in a way that promotes value and support to Ministry, and GovTechON IT needs.

 

3. Project Management methodologies - 30%

Parameters:

• PM collaterals, Exec dashboard and summaries, proper PCR processes and all relevant documentation pertaining to the triple constraint for project.
• The resource's depth of experience leading complex Enterprise level projects related to technology, report transformations, influence, collaboration abilities with other defined stakeholder groups, adaptability, scope management, and overall planning capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience of PM methodologies, experience in creating project charters, integrated plan development, tracking issues/risks, managing and reporting project financials and developing governance models.

We are looking for a Mainframe DBA! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Description: The contractor will be responsible for providing subject matter expertise on the selection, design, development and integration of mainframe databases including IMS, DB2 and CICS. This position requires a solid understanding of mainframe application development and database technology with an emphasis on database administration. The candidate would provide technical guidance on related database and mainframe software updates, in addition to providing database admin support for IMS, DB2 or CICS. A good understanding of application code development using Cobol is required and knowledge of mainframe assembler is an asset. This role provides guidance and technical support for mainframe database issues, code development processes and assists other team members in provide technical expertise in investigating functional, application performance and capacity related issues.   Must Have Requirement: - 3+ years' experience in one or more of IMS, DB2, CICS (Oracle and DB2 together can be total of 3 years') - 3+ years' experience working in a z/OS TSO/ISPF environment - 3+ years' experience and knowledge of mainframe tools including: MACRO4, DB2 and IMS administration tools, IBM Application Performance Analyzer (APA) or equivalent - 3+ years' experience with code/change management process using ServiceNow, Endevor.   Nice to Have: - Skills in Easytrieve, SAS, DB2 Connect, TOAD are an asset. - Knowledge of CA-7 scheduler functionality (awareness of how jobs are scheduled)   Soft Skills: - Good communication skills (English) are required for this position. - Strong team player - DBA Banking experience would be a nice to have   Supplier Call Notes: - Ideally someone who can hit the ground running without much training. The more senior the better - Small team of 10 people - Support specialized databases - Needs sufficient experience to help app developers in resolving app issues within the technology areas that are covered by the team. - Mainframe Familiarity is required - Awareness of application code development would be an asset - DB2 experience is preferred but IMS and CICS will also work. - Team is very tight knit, lot's of good collaboration and strong communication.

We are looking for a Data Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!     Description: Interesting work: Deliver work that matters to you. We provide the opportunity to get involved in highly technical, complex and interesting projects where you can leverage your specific skillset and expertise to add value. Enrich your skills: Access to best-in-class technology, market intelligence and resources to advance your unique technical skills and expertise. Work alongside diverse, passionate and highly skilled professionals working together to drive innovation. Flexible opportunities: Find projects that match when and where you want to work. What you will do

• Work with business teams to define and document business requirements and functional specifications for new projects and change requests, ensuring all stakeholders are consulted and informed, and ensuring that all documented requirements are fully reviewed and approved.
• Design data visualizations that deliver meaningful data metrics via easy-to-use dashboard solutions.
• Map data flows from source to target systems, ensuring all data elements are fully categorized and cataloged.
• Complete analysis on datasets of many sizes and clearly communicate the resulting insights to stakeholders, enabling them to make informed business decisions.
• Lead and perform end-to-end (source to target) data validations for all newly developed projects before handing the results over to business teams for user acceptance testing.
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Analytics team to continuously improve the program’s methodology, including document templates, pipeline management and reporting solutions.
• Work with the Data Management team to support and maintain data analytics standards across, ensuring relevant data standards and policies are observed in all Enterprise Analytics projects.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in an analytics role, including large-scale data transformation projects.
• Ability to analyze and document data source systems, data objects, linage, applications, data usage and privacy.
• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to deliver concise requirements and flow diagrams.
• Ability to forge consensus within a group of stakeholders, to deliver a solution that works for all.
• Knowledge of agile methodology and the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a creative approach, and superior design aesthetics.
• Strong knowledge of data analysis tools and frameworks such as Oracle, SQL Server, SSIS and SSRS, and the ability to write complex SQL queries and statements and analyze large data sets.
• Experience with tools such as Azure DevOps, SharePoint, Office 365, Microsoft Teams, etc.

Nice to Have:

• Ability to build dashboards and visualizations using PowerBI
• Experience with establishing best practices and standards for an EA program

We are looking for a QA Lead! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Description Responsibilities Lead the design of test strategy, plans, scenarios, scripts, or procedures for testing General Skills Experience co-ordinating the test strategy and plan with project managers and others Experience writing and reviewing a test strategy for the project, and test policy for the organization. Experience contributing the testing perspective to other project activities, such as development, integration testing, etc. Experience planning the tests - considering the context and understanding the test objectives and risk - including selecting test approaches, estimating the time, effort and cost of testing, acquiring resources, defining test levels, cycles and planning incident management Experience initiating the specification, preparation, implementation and execution of tests, monitor the test results and check the exit criteria Experience adapting planning based on test results and progress(tweaking the plan) and take necessary actions to compensate for problems Experience introducing suitable metrics for measuring test progress and evaluating the quality of the testing and product. Experience providing input to test automation strategy, test automation framework roadmap Experience selecting tools to support testing and organize any training in tool use for testers Experience coordinating usage and assignment of test environment with all stakeholders. Experience writing test summary reports based on the information gathered during testing. Experience executing full lifecycle software development Experience programming well-designed, testable, efficient code Experience creating / producing specifications and determine operational feasibility Experience leading / providing guidance to team members A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements Must Have: 

• API Testing skills
• Knowledge of AODA
• Knowledge of SQL

Nice to have:

• Automation Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements 

• Please note this role is part of a hybrid Work Arrangement and resource(s) will be required to work at a minimum of 2-3 days per week at 5700 Yonge St.
• During the interview, candidates can expect to be asked questions on anything and everything mentioned on their resume

  Testing Proficiency 75% Proven experience as a:

• Functional tester for large scale enterprise systems undergoing transformation or being built from scratch.
• Experience in developing automated test scripts using different tools such as Selenium, Robotic, WAVE and others
• testing and in use of REST API to create test data and verify expected results.
• Experience using Rest API clients such as Postman, Curl, SOAP UI
• Experience with designing, developing, and maintaining test
• cases based on industry best practices and standards
• Experience with manual test execution and defect reporting, testing
• of various types of integration technologies

  Database Systems:         

• Understanding of relational Database technology and working experience
• with SQL in the context either test data preparation or expected result
• verification with one of the database management systems such as SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access
• Database testing

  Test Automation Frameworks:

• Test Automation Tools (e.g., Selenium, Robotic)
• API Testing (REST, SOAP) Postman and Swagger
• AODA Testing tools

  Collaboration and communication: 25%

• Good team collaboration, documentation, problem solving and communication skills

We are looking for a Scrum Master! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Brief Description on Duties: Requirements: This work will require Reliability status Description of Service

• EDC is seeking a Scrum Master Service Provider to support EDC by creating the conditions for the team to frequently deliver high-user value / high-quality products, allow the team to self-organize, remove impediments, shield the team from outside distractions, and continuously promote and support the team’s use of Agile and Scrum.
• The Scrum Master Service Provider is to focus on developing a new and innovative solution for aggregating and displaying company information will be a facilitator who supports team members in applying Agile practices, processes, and behaviors for executing effectively and with quality; raises the performance of delivery teams through impediment management, continuous improvement, and ceremony facilitation.

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance and continuous improvement of Agile events and project/program management practices.
• Support the Product Owner to ensure teams actions are aligned with the Product goals, vision, and roadmap.
• Identify and action impediments that interfere with team progress and achievement of the team’s goals (for example, using burndown charts at stand-ups, reviewing OKRs (Objective and Key Results) on an ongoing basis, identifying risks etc.).
• Clear obstacles in the team’s path (for example, dependencies on other teams), maintain a list of risks, impediments, and improvements.
• Ability to navigate, communicate and decipher trends using team metrics (for example, velocity), DevOps, IT metrics along with barometer scores and progress against OKRs).
• Facilitate team events (planning sessions, retrospectives, mid-cycle reviews, and demos).
• Organize the processes of decomposition and story/task estimation. Co-ordinate cross-team technology dependencies.
• Coordinate interaction with other teams and any other relevant product level synchronizations.
• Support identification of trade-offs between short-term and long-term benefits to drive shared vision between the team and Product Owner.
• Identify ways to strengthen teams’ understanding and adoption of Agile concepts and principles.
• Foster a continuous learning environment, helping teams to inspect and adapt. Role model and coach Agile behaviors as needed.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of trust through facilitation of retrospectives and feedback exchange among team members.
• Bring transparency to Business and IT organizations about team and Product development.
• Bring an element of project management skills to the team to assist in planning larger initiatives that require an organized timeline.

Specific Project/Platform Requirements

• Completed an undergraduate Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in project management, program management or business analysis.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience as a dedicated Scrum Master.

Skills Top Skills Required: Servant Leadership:

• Capable of building strong relationships with squads and individuals, building a reputation as a trusted advisor, coach, and friend.
• Contributor to fostering a healthy work environment and builds self-sufficiency within the squad by ensuring the talent and tools for success are available, and squads are empowered to leverage them.
• Effective navigator of communications within and beyond the squad to align stakeholders.

Coaching and facilitation:

• Capable of delivering effective coaching to squad members to help achieve the full potential of the individual and the squad.
• Strong supporter of squad members by helping them develop necessary skills and Agile expertise.
• Effective collaborator with the Product Owner and squad to drive towards achieving Product Vision and OKRs.
• Ability to lead proactive resolution of intra-or-inter squad conflicts.

Agile knowledge and expertise:

• Familiar with Agile and leverages relevant frameworks (e.g., Scrum or Kanban) to optimize squad outcomes.
• Grasps the details of squad members’ technical approaches and proactively drives initiatives to improve engineering practices.
• Fluent in customer centricity and effectively encourages the squad to uphold those principles. Effective at re-orienting the squads thinking around continuous iteration based on customer feedback when necessary.

Mindset and behaviors:

• Naturally and consistently brings enthusiasm and passion about the Enterprise Agile process to effectively encourage the squad to contribute to that environment.
• Adopts a growth mindset and promotes and open-feedback culture within the squad.

We are looking for a System Administrator! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Brief Description on Duties: Story Behind the Need: Combining the competencies of DevOps, Systems Administration, and Cloud Engineering, the role of Cloud Operations Engineer provides the opportunity to combine your technical ability, strategic thinking and detail-oriented execution in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. You will join a team with the purpose of constantly improving the reliability of our systems through continuous improvements to running infrastructure. You will work with application teams to deliver continuous improvements to applications and support the transformation of our approach to both operations and development. You will work with the Cloud Engineering team to design and implement tools and processes that monitor and respond to the state of our systems. Candidate Value Proposition: The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work within Scotiabank. We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work. You will get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology and engage with the latest emerging technologies. Typical Day in Role:

• Manage reliability of critical infrastructure platforms on our Public Cloud Platforms (Google and Azure)
• Improve and maintain site availability, scalability, service and system performance
• Investigate system errors and problems, bottleneck analysis of the system at scale, etc.
• Provide solutions for performance management, disaster recovery, monitoring and access management
• Participate in solution design sessions
• Participate in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
• Build and operate highly available and scalable software and infrastructure.
• Supporting application teams on the use of the platform including providing guidance on design patterns, best practices, and security considerations.
• Our teams are flexible and fast – you will be asked to provide peer review and quality control on a daily basis.
• Be part of on call rotation (occurs every 7 weeks; on call for 1 week).

Candidate Requirements/Must-Have skills:

• 8+ years of System Administration experience and/or Enterprise Operations skills
• 3-5+ years of experience OS Experience (RHEL 7.X and Windows 2K12 and above)
• 2+ years of experience developing in any of the following languages (Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby, Go, C#)
• 2+ years of experience supporting GCP and/or Azure; and Experience with Kubernetes (GKE & AKS)
• You have strong knowledge of Agile & Lean methodologies for requirements / design methodology

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Knowledge of software design patterns, infrastructure architecture, DevOps, or security considerations.
• Experience designing and implementing tasks in Continuous Integration systems (Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI, etc.).
• Understanding of software release process (environments, binary repositories, CI/CD).
• Experience with Tanzu (PCF), Pipelines, and other cloud development platforms
• Experience supporting containers, container orchestration platforms.
• Knowledge of network engineering – DNS, TCP/IP, Load balancing, DMZ, routing protocols, etc.
• Knowledge of Cloud security – Cryptographic key management, certificate infrastructures/PKI, secure coding practices, etc.
• Experience with Terraform
• Fluency in Spanish

Soft Skills:

• Ability to work on ambiguous problems of moderate complexity.
• Solid verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to details, high standards for quality.
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently with minimal direction.

Best vs. Average Candidate:

• A self-starter with a strong sense of personal accountability and team responsibility.
• Detail oriented, analytical and capable of investigating complex / technical issues and provide alternative solutions, project & production methodologies.

Education:

• Post-secondary degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related IT field is an asset.

We are looking for a Senior Program Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Brief Description on Duties: Description: The Government Mobile Communications Branch (GMCB) under the Ministry of Solicitor General (SolGen), has undertaken an ambitious project to upgrade Ontario s Public Safety Radio Network (PSRN). PSRN is one of the largest and most complex public safety radio networks in North America. It covers approximately 750,000 square KMs of area. PSRN serves more than 38,000 front-line and emergency responders, such as, police officers, enforcement officers, fire service staff and ambulance paramedics with the radio communications technology, equipment and other resources that they need to keep Ontarians safe. Responders use this technology to communicate with their dispatchers and one another when responding to emergencies. GMCB is executing this large project in collaboration with other ministries and partners including the Land and Resources I IT Cluster (LRC) who are leading and managing the PSRN project on behalf of its ministry partners: Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry, Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks and Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. The successful candidate will oversee directly the LRC Stream Leads deliverables within the PSRN Program. Manage, lead, and plan in support of the transition of public safety radio within the partner ministry operations in such a way as to minimize operational impact while staying on track with the overall PSRN project. Assignment Supplier Comments: Closing Date/Time 2024-02-15, 10:00 a.m. Maximum # of supplier submissions: 1 Position is remote - in-office attendance required as needed by the client. Must Haves: At least 10 years of Program Management experience Knowledge and experience in managing large-scale telecommunications deployment initiatives. Experience managing large-scale, complex, integrated project plans. Radio/Telecom and/or Network Infrastructure Experience Experience leading meetings with stakeholders and clients and strong Stakeholder management skills Experience managing risks and issues that cross multiple internal/external organizations and sub-project streams. Experience developing and managing complex radio/telecommunication/network projects Nice to have: Knowledge and experience in the public sector is an asset Assignment Scope: Program Design Management Knowledge and experience in project managing large-scale telecommunications deployment initiatives. Experience developing complex network transition and migration strategies with cross-stream dependencies. Experience developing and implementing transition plans. Experience managing large-scale, complex, integrated project plans. Experience managing executive relationships and dealing with senior executives across multiple organizations. Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills Excellent verbal and written communication skills Highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills A team player with a track record of meeting deadlines At least 10 years of Program Management experience Criteria Ratings MUST TOTAL 100 Program Management Experience 45 points Experience developing and implementing large-scale, complex, integrated project plans at a program level. Experience managing risks and issues that cross multiple internal/external organizations and sub-project streams. Experience managing multiple teams in an integrated fashion to achieve outcomes. A seasoned project professional with the ability to apply concepts, practices, and procedures to practical project scenarios. Works with minimal direction and can lead and train others in project management concepts and practice. High level of expertise in program/project management and able to provide advice to others as needed. Demonstrated experience in managing project activities across multiple complex technology projects. Knowledge or certification of industry standards such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and demonstrated experience in Project Management methodologies, producing documentation, collaterals, and artifacts Demonstrated IT project management experience managing all phases (Initiate, Plan, Execute, Monitor and Control, and Closeout) of large-scale, complex IT projects. Effectively manage large project budgets and ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts, and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals Demonstrated experience identifying and evaluating specific issues or risks and providing options and recommendations. Demonstrated experience with applications used in project management: MS Office suite, MS Project and Planview Experience consolidating and integrating multiple project plans and managing interdependencies across various program streams. Experience creating and maintaining project management artifacts and collateral. Experience with meeting facilitation, minute creation, and action item tracking Experience working with both business users and technical teams. Experience creating various levels of reports (e.g. executive, summary, status, etc.) Experience leading portfolio-level planning sessions involving multiple program streams. Experience of working on projects or programs involving multiple highly inter-dependent applications and/or data sources Experience in vendor management, financial management, and procurement activities in projects Demonstrated experience preparing and issuing project updates and progress reports to stakeholders. Experience developing and implementing large-scale, complex transition plans. Experience managing vendor commitments to ensure contractual obligations are met. Experience providing oversight and direction for third-party vendor resources. Experience managing interdependencies related to key contract deliverables. Excellent planning and time management skills and a focus on attention to detail Experience of projects involving, network design, civil structures, user equipment distribution, and operations Experience with projects involving large numbers of users (over 30,000) and meeting their business requirements, training, and communications needs Communication and Relationship Management Experience 25 points Experience managing executive relationships and dealing with senior executives across multiple organizations. Experience building relationships with 3rd party vendors and effectively managing and reporting to governance. Leadership skills to align activities across several project streams and organizations. Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills Excellent verbal and written communication skills Strong communication and interpersonal skills to negotiate, collaborate, document, and achieve approvals from a wide variety of decision-makers. A team player with the ability to coordinate multiple tasks with competing priorities and strict deadlines. Experience reviewing and ensuring submitted documentation is complete and accurate Experience developing and presenting briefing notes, status reports, communications, team and executive presentations Experience leading meetings with stakeholders and clients and strong Stakeholder management skills Experience consulting with senior management to achieve project outcomes. A team player with a track record of meeting deadlines Demonstrated experience with acting independently and making decisions that achieve optimal results with minimal supervision. Detail-oriented and strong multitasking abilities in order to juggle multiple clients demands Radio/Telecom and/or Network Infrastructure Experience 25 points Experience developing and managing complex radio/telecommunication/network projects Public Sector Experience 5 points Knowledge and experience in the public sector Experience managing complex public sector multi-stakeholder and multi-level executive stakeholder project teams at a program level. Demonstrated experience developing mutually beneficial relationships with public sector entities Knowledge Transfer Completed Deliverables details. Processes used for Developing deliverables. Artifacts collected Project Manager / Team members 1:1 meetings/team meetings/documentation on the SharePoint site, throughout the duration of the project life cycle etc. Assignment Description: Provide senior-level program management and develop comprehensive project plans for the extremely large, complex, multi-ministry, multi-year, high profile and high risk PSRN project. Manage all stream lead activities throughout all phases of the project including establishing priorities and schedules; monitoring and reporting on progress and deliverables and managing issues and risks to ensure compliance with enterprise and corporate I IT standards, policies, directives, and vendor agreements. Identify resource requirements and physical and financial dependencies to help effectively manage the project and ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability. Conduct project assessments and prepare business cases, project terms of reference and related documentation to facilitate senior level decision-making. Through effective program management ensure ministry business requirements and the PSRN project are aligned to best meet the needs of all stakeholders. Work with ministry clients to develop and implement key operational infrastructure and business practices as necessary to improve the ministry s ability to transition to the new PSRN without impacting any operational requirements for their Programs. Participate on committees and task forces at the Ministry, Cluster, and OPS levels to analyze the impact of changes to existing service levels and support structures. Develop, manage, and maintain the public safety radio portfolio for MNRF, MECP, and OMAFRA. This includes capital planning, asset planning, risk management, and operational planning. Manage the execution and implementation of radio project activities, directly or through stream lead members. Provide leadership, and guidance to staff in the setting of priorities, interpreting policies and procedures, problem-solving and assigning work to ensure efficient and effective implementation of the project and portfolio objectives. Plan, manage, and control all technical elements of the project in accordance with processes and corporate and industry standards to minimize risks, and meet time, cost, service delivery expectations. Through effective use of an Issues and Actions Log, identify, manage, and track resolution of complex issues. Effectively use a Risk Register to log, identify, manage, and track the mitigation, avoidance or acceptance of risks. Articulate and prioritize risks at senior executive levels and recommend risk mitigation strategies for decision-makers. Manage change through the effective use of a Change Register to log, track, and assess the impact of requested changes to the project scope. Amend project plans, schedules and budget to support implementation of approved changes. Prepare and deliver LRC PSRN Status Reports and Executive Dashboard updates to Senior and Executive Management including ADM Deputy Ministers and project stakeholders regularly. Lead/participate in steering committee and stakeholder forums. Manage project procurement through established processes for the acquisition of radio solutions. Lead the development of long-term capital planning and forecasting for PSRN LRC ministries. Participate in the development of operational and strategic planning for LRC and its ministries. Optional extensions will have travel associated. Contract Value:$276,403.00 CAD Must Haves:

• At least 10 years of Program Management experience
• Knowledge and experience in managing large-scale telecommunications deployment initiatives.
• Experience managing large-scale, complex, integrated project plans.
• Radio/Telecom and/or Network Infrastructure Experience
• Experience leading meetings with stakeholders and clients and strong Stakeholder management skills
• Experience managing risks and issues that cross multiple internal/external organizations and sub-project streams.
• Experience developing and managing complex radio/telecommunication/network projects

Nice to Have Knowledge and experience in the public sector is an asset. Program Manager Description

• Provide senior-level program management and develop comprehensive project plans for the extremely large, complex, multi-ministry, multi-year, high profile and high risk PSRN project.
• Manage all stream lead activities throughout all phases of the project including establishing priorities and schedules; monitoring and reporting on progress and deliverables and managing issues and risks to ensure compliance with enterprise and corporate I&IT standards, policies, directives, and vendor agreements.
• Identify resource requirements and physical and financial dependencies to help effectively manage the project and ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability.
• Conduct project assessments and prepare business cases, project terms of reference and related documentation to facilitate senior level decision-making.
• Through effective program management ensure ministry business requirements and the PSRN project are aligned to best meet the needs of all stakeholders.
• Work with ministry clients to develop and implement key operational infrastructure and business practices as necessary to improve the ministry's ability to transition to the new PSRN without impacting any operational requirements for their Programs.
• Participate on committees and task forces at the Ministry, Cluster, and OPS levels to analyze the impact of changes to existing service levels and support structures.
• Develop, manage, and maintain the public safety radio portfolio for MNRF, MECP, and OMAFRA. This includes capital planning, asset planning, risk management, and operational planning.
• Manage the execution and implementation of radio project activities, directly or through stream lead members.
• Provide leadership, and guidance to staff in the setting of priorities, interpreting policies and procedures, problem-solving and assigning work to ensure efficient and effective implementation of the project and portfolio objectives.
• Plan, manage, and control all technical elements of the project in accordance with processes and corporate and industry standards to minimize risks, and meet time, cost, service delivery expectations.
• Through effective use of an Issues and Actions Log, identify, manage, and track resolution of complex issues.
• Effectively use a Risk Register to log, identify, manage, and track the mitigation, avoidance or acceptance of risks.
• Articulate and prioritize risks at senior executive levels and recommend risk mitigation strategies for decision-makers.
• Manage change through the effective use of a Change Register to log, track, and assess the impact of requested changes to the project scope.
• Amend project plans, schedules and budget to support implementation of approved changes.
• Prepare and deliver LRC PSRN Status Reports and Executive Dashboard updates to Senior and Executive Management including ADM & Deputy Ministers and project stakeholders regularly.
• Lead/participate in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
• Manage project procurement through established processes for the acquisition of radio solutions.
• Lead the development of long-term capital planning and forecasting for PSRN LRC ministries.
• Participate in the development of operational and strategic planning for LRC and its ministries.

Optional extensions will have travel associated. Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements

• Program Design & Management
• Knowledge and experience in project managing large-scale telecommunications deployment initiatives.
• Experience developing complex network transition and migration strategies with cross-stream dependencies.
• Experience developing and implementing transition plans.
• Experience managing large-scale, complex, integrated project plans.
• Experience managing executive relationships and dealing with senior executives across multiple organizations.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills
• A team player with a track record of meeting deadlines
• At least 10 years of Program Management experience

Program Management Experience

• Experience developing and implementing large-scale, complex, integrated project plans at a program level.
• Experience managing risks and issues that cross multiple internal/external organizations and sub-project streams.
• Experience managing multiple teams in an integrated fashion to achieve outcomes.
• A seasoned project professional with the ability to apply concepts, practices, and procedures to practical project scenarios.
• Works with minimal direction and can lead and train others in project management concepts and practice.
• High level of expertise in program/project management and able to provide advice to others as needed.
• Demonstrated experience in managing project activities across multiple complex technology projects.
• Knowledge or certification of industry standards such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and demonstrated experience in Project Management methodologies, producing documentation, collaterals, and artifacts
• Demonstrated IT project management experience managing all phases (Initiate, Plan, Execute, Monitor and Control, and Closeout) of large-scale, complex IT projects.
• Effectively manage large project budgets and ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts, and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals
• Demonstrated experience identifying and evaluating specific issues or risks and providing options and recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience with applications used in project management: MS Office suite, MS Project and Planview
• Experience consolidating and integrating multiple project plans and managing interdependencies across various program streams.
• Experience creating and maintaining project management artifacts and collateral.
• Experience with meeting facilitation, minute creation, and action item tracking
• Experience working with both business users and technical teams.
• Experience creating various levels of reports (e.g. executive, summary, status, etc.)
• Experience leading portfolio-level planning sessions involving multiple program streams.
• Experience of working on projects or programs involving multiple highly inter-dependent applications and/or data sources
• Experience in vendor management, financial management, and procurement activities in projects
• Demonstrated experience preparing and issuing project updates and progress reports to stakeholders.
• Experience developing and implementing large-scale, complex transition plans.
• Experience managing vendor commitments to ensure contractual obligations are met.
• Experience providing oversight and direction for third-party vendor resources
• Experience managing interdependencies related to key contract deliverables.
• Excellent planning and time management skills and a focus on attention to detail
• Experience of projects involving, network design, civil structures, user equipment distribution, and operations
• Experience with projects involving large numbers of users (over 30,000) and meeting their business requirements, training, and communications needs

Communication and Relationship Management Experience

• Experience managing executive relationships and dealing with senior executives across multiple organizations.
• Experience building relationships with 3rd party vendors and effectively managing and reporting to governance.
• Leadership skills to align activities across several project streams and organizations.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to negotiate, collaborate, document, and achieve approvals from a wide variety of decision-makers.
• A team player with the ability to coordinate multiple tasks with competing priorities and strict deadlines.
• Experience reviewing and ensuring submitted documentation is complete and accurate
• Experience developing and presenting briefing notes, status reports, communications, team & and executive presentations
• Experience leading meetings with stakeholders and clients and strong Stakeholder management skills
• Experience consulting with senior management to achieve project outcomes.
• A team player with a track record of meeting deadlines
• Demonstrated experience with acting independently and making decisions that achieve optimal results with minimal supervision.
• Detail-oriented and strong multitasking abilities in order to juggle multiple clients demands

Radio/Telecom and/or Network Infrastructure Experience

• Experience developing and managing complex radio/telecommunication/network projects

Public Sector Experience

• Knowledge and experience in the public sector
• Experience managing complex public sector multi-stakeholder and multi-level executive stakeholder project teams at a program level.
• Demonstrated experience developing mutually beneficial relationships with public sector entities

Knowledge Transfer

• Completed Deliverables details.
• Processes used for Developing deliverables.
• Artifacts collected
• Project Manager / Team members

We are looking for a Infrastructure Support Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Brief Description on Duties:   What is the opportunity? This position provides implementation, administration, support, monitoring and/or maintenance of the Server environment. Responsible for timely user problem resolution, including problem recognition, project resource, isolation and resolution/escalation.   What will you do?

• Day-to-day server administration and support. Key technologies include Microsoft Windows Server 2016/2019, Active Directory, VMware, NetApp, CISCO.
• Promptly respond to and rectify system instability or failure.
• Upgrades and enhancements to maintain the infrastructure hardware and software.
• Maintain IT documentation.
• Implement IT policies, procedures, and best practices to meet the needs of the organization and ensure they are being followed.
• Actively discuss, review, and recommend technical options and activities with the team.
• Proactively make recommendations to resolve technical system issues.
• Benchmark, analyze, report on, and make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT infrastructure and IT systems.
• At all times, interface with various members of the organization in a professional, calm, helpful and courteous manner.
• Adopts and shares best practices among colleagues.

  What do you need to succeed? Must Have:

• Advanced knowledge of Windows, Active Directory, VMware, Storage and Networking
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work with multiple teams and stakeholders
• Ability to analyze incident response and escalate to so correct resources are brought in to solve incident

  Nice to Have:

• NetApp certification
• CISCO networking

We are looking for a Financial Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!     Brief Description on Duties:   Story Behind the Need: The team is currently looking to backfill a key member of the project who will be leaving for maternity leave. The contractor will be able to train under the current FTE team member prior to their leave but the team is looking for someone who can jump into the day to day tasks. Project: The successful will be responsible for providing, and if directed leading a loan operations team in delivering, quality administrative services to Clients of corporate credit facilities generated by GBM and other units as required wherein the Bank is an agent, participant lender or direct lender in a credit facility. The incumbent will be responsible, as directed, for supervising a team of loan Analyst and working with the Manager/ other Assistant Managers to oversee completion of operational duties in a timely manner, maintaining team productivity to target, execute staffing plans, monitor and oversee operational controls and form part of the working management team Candidate Value Proposition: The successful candidate will be working on a central project and have the opportunity to gain experience in one of Canada’s top 5 banks. They will also gain experience working in a high volume, fast paced work environment and learn under senior members of the team. Typical Day in Role:

• Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• As directed, managing a team that administer loan information given by Customers on syndicated or direct deals including verification of limit available, accuracy of calculations, and disbursement/application of funds.
• Administers instructions by Agents on participations and customers on direct and agented deals including verification of limit availability, accuracy of calculations and disbursement/application of funds.
• Ensuring that terms and conditions of authorizations and/or loan documentation are being adhered to including pricing, term, limits etc.
• Communicating effectively with various contacts including other Banks to resolve issues on a timely basis.
• Recognizing and bringing exceptions to policies and procedures to the attention of Manager/Senior Manager/Director for further guidance and resolution.
• Developing a solid knowledge of loan platform, ACBS and Loan IQ to ensure accuracy of posting accounting entries to source system and business line dissemination. .
• Assist Manager, Senior Manager and Director in various team-related tasks, resolution of exception items as well as special project-related work
• Oversee and monitor team productivity, staffing and work volume information and report to Manager/Senior Manager on a weekly basis.
• Provide guidance and coaching to immediate team staff.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Creates an environment in which his/her team pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.
• Builds a high performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment; communicating vison/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team.

Candidate Requirements/Must-Have skills:

• 5-7 Years as a Financial Analyst
• 3+ Years Working with corporate lending services
• 3+ Years Experience with Loan IQ
• Solid working knowledge with MS Suite – Excel, Word, Power Point etc.,
• Prior Experience providing Customer Service in a Financial Institute

Nice to Have:

• Prior FI Experience
• Credit Facility Knowledge

Soft Skills:

• High attention to detail and ability to stay organized with high volume work load.
• Good time management and organization skills in order to co-ordinate multiple training sessions and complete training material in a timely fashion
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Education/Experience:

• Post-secondary or relevant work experience

We are looking for a Java Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!     Brief Description on Duties: Story Behind the Need Global Payments Technology Solutions and Support (OU20016362) Business group: Trade and Supply Chain Finance Products Project: Trade Services Input Facility Enhancement – Enhance and streamline automation of some of their business operations – The application is running and the project is to enhance the app with an expected completion date of end of November for development Candidate Value Proposition: The successful candidate will have the opportunity to enhance an existing critical application by developing code and working with the trade finance business team. Typical Day in Role:

• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications.
• Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts. Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement, and support a solution.
• Assure quality, security, and compliance requirements are met for supported area.
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment.
• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing web applications using Java and related technologies (e.g. JSP, Servlets, HTML5, Hibernate, jQuery, Tomcat 9+) to support business requirements.
• 3-5 years of experience with Struts 1.x preferred if not Spring framework experience
• 3-5 years of experience working with SQL
• Proficiency using Microsoft Excel
• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, and successful deployment of Medium scale projects from end-to-end.
• Hands-on experience in following the iterative and agile SDL

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Previous experience using JXLS preferred

Soft Skills Required:

• Problem-solving skills are important for success in this role.
• Communication skills
• Organization skills
• Time management skills
• Team Player
• Fast learner and taking initiative of own training speed
• Positive Attitude

Best VS. Average Candidate:

• The best candidate will have extensive experience developing web applications and has all the must-have skills in particular experience in Struts 1.x.

Education & Certificates:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required 10+ years experience required

We are looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!     Brief Description on Duties: Must-haves:

• Knowledge and experience with crating, augmenting and negotiating Licensing agreements
• Practical knowledge with financial analysis, forecasting and tracking multi-year engagements

Nice to Have/Optional:

• 10+ years of Integrated Enterprise project management experience across business and I&IT teams.
• Experience with the management of Stakeholders, risks, changes, issues, time, scope and resources.
• Experience with I&IT technology site deployment/rollout.
• Practical experience with crating, modifying and negotiating Licensing agreements
• Practical knowledge with financial analysis, forecasting and tracking multi-year engagements

Public Sector Experience

• Experience with Public Sector ITIL process including incident management, release management, problem management, support models, etc.
• Experience with Service Ontario/Ministry of Government and Consumer Services business processes, gating procedures, project management requirements and business rules.
• Knowledge of Ontario Government network and desktop infrastructure procurement, implementation and support models.

Responsibilities:

• Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
• Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.

General Skills:

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards.
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures.
• Sources, selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
• Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects – concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
• Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and experience with crating, augmenting and negotiating Licencing agreements
• Practical knowledge with financial analysis, forecasting and tracking multi-year engagements
• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge.
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.
• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas

We are looking for a BI Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!     Brief Description on Duties: Job Description:

• Develop and understand business drivers, definitions, and metrics to interpret findings, take-action, and provide meaningful business direction.
• Develop and maintain specialized Business Intelligence (BI) packages, dashboards and scorecards on the MS Azure Cloud Platform
• Manage the repository of all reporting assets including and not limited to data analysis, development scripts, objects and documentation.
• Maintain expert knowledge of all main data sources for the data used within the business unit and ability to effectively utilize these data sources
• Lead the discussion with business partners to understand business objectives and develop valuable reporting for enablement and fact based decisioning
• Validate the quality and integrity of the data included in all artifacts
• Develop substantial and insightful commentary/insights on new and existing BI packages
• Work independently as the senior analyst / expert and may provide technical support to others

Additional Requirements:

• Enthusiastic and focused self-starter who can work with minimal supervision to strict deadlines and is able to prioritize, multitask, and manage various projects simultaneously
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work with various level of management and senior management to convey findings concisely through presentations and business commentaries
• Strong ownership mentality, proactive attitude, and ability to get things done
• Demonstrated passionate analytical thinker with track record of delivering business impact and results through developing and executing on innovative BI solutions
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a history of using data to understand not only what is happening, but why it is happening, and what can be done to resolve the issue
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to excel in a fast-paced environment and run multiple deadlines and priorities

Must Have Skills

• 8+ Experience in business or financial reporting/business insights and analysis development, is knowledgeable and savvy with new technology and tools preferably within the global financial services and back-office operations
• Experience working in Agile environment
• 5+ Hands-on experience in using business intelligence, analytics and/or data visualization tools (ex: Tableau)
• 2+ Experience with Python, Databricks
• 5+ years SQL
• Strong team player who fosters and thrives in an environment of peer development and sharing
• Strong analytically-anchored problem-solving skills – a logical and strategic thinker with strong critical reasoning skills, proactively identifies risks and issues, recommends solutions, challenges the status quo

Nice to have Skills

• Experience with Microsoft Azure is desired
• 2+ years JIRA and Confluence

Educational Requirements/Accreditations:

• Undergraduate degree or above preferably in an analytically based discipline. Master preferred.
• 8-10 years of relevant experience

We are looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!     Brief Description on Duties: Must haves:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience project managing electronic health-related projects, ideally with experience deploying clinical software systems
• Experience working in the public sector, preferably in a health care setting.
• Experience with and knowledge of Project Management concepts (e.g. project goals, risk, scope, participant roles, planning and quality management)
• Experience with budgeting and financial management
• Excellent Communication skills both verbal and written, and strong stakeholder engagement skills
• Time Management, with the ability to manage tight deadlines and prioritize multiple projects
• Collaboration, coordinating tasks, and ensuring that everybody works together effectively, this also involves conflict resolution

Deliverables include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborate closely with the Ontario Health Privacy Team to establish an efficient process for conducting privacy impact assessments on all new/modified services, spaces, and/or service delivery modes.
• Take the lead in planning, coordinating, and overseeing internal privacy reviews, data privacy impact assessments, and external assessments.
• Work in collaboration with various programs to systematically review, update, and archive all corporate policies, ensuring alignment with privacy standards.
• Assess new applications and business processes that necessitate access to personal health information, ensuring strict adherence to privacy standards, legislation, and industry best practices.
• Planning & strategy development for replacement of acCDR and existing viewers
• Provincial Clinical Viewer integration - planning/design/develop/UAT
• Planning audit data migrations for existing clinical viewers
• Change management preparation activities
• Provincial Clinical Viewer Pilot
• Provincial Clinical Viewer Roll out
• Decommission of existing viewers

Responsibilities:

• Provides project management on a large scale, complex, high profile and high risk project
• Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.

General Skills:

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards.
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures.
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects – concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
• Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.

Nice Have; Desired Skills:

• Professional certifications: Project Management Professional; Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge
• Demonstrated project management software skills and experience e.g. MS Project, MS Teams etc.
• College/University undergraduate degree in Health, Business or related discipline from a recognized institution or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of Healthcare Information Systems used throughout the province of Ontario
• Experience with health system business implementation and deployment projects
• Proven track record working with health care professionals; direct clinical data experience or experience working with clinicians would be an asset
• Experience in liaising with customers/stakeholders where customer service was a key focus to responding to queries, issues/risk management, etc.
• Relationship building, facilitation and influencing skills to successfully partner with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to readily identify, assess and mitigate implementation and adoption issues
• Experience with and/or knowledge of change management, workflow analysis and redesign, business process integration, and/or evaluation/quality improvement, preferably in the health sector
• Experience operating in highly political environments and across various organizational cultures
• Working knowledge of privacy policies and legislative processes – Health Protection and Promotion Act (HPPA), Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) and Personal Health Information
• Protection Act (PHIPA) and associated Health Information Custodian (HIC) requirements
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!     Brief Description on Duties: Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with product managers, product owners, and technical team to develop test strategies and test plans
• Strong understanding of manual testing practices to support developing manual test scripts, test cases and/or test scenarios
• Assist with planning and creating test data as it relates to each test phase
• Executes quality assurance and testing activities for various types of testing such as integration testing, functional testing, regression testing, unit testing, load testing, performance testing and accessibility testing
• Plans and organizes testing efforts in both front-end and back-end application components/environments
• Communicate test results regularly through reports that summarize test completion and defects found
• Help with the implementation of the project technical testing strategy and methodology. This includes testing of integration points and interfaces and non-functional requirements (e.g. fail-over, component response times, data integrity, security)
• Evaluate test results against acceptance criteria to determine successful completion of the sprint increment
• Defines and measures acceptance criteria for test cases
• Record all defects/issues in the Cluster’s defect reporting tool (Jira), including detailed descriptions, screenshots, and steps to re-produce
• Participate in elicitation and business requirement workshop sessions, sprint reviews and/or walkthrough meetings
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the agile / iterative solution development lifecycle
• Conducts post-release / post-implementation testing
• Supports clients with user acceptance testing (UAT) activities
• Creates traceability matrix to ensure testing outcomes align with business requirements
• Coordinate and facilitate regular defect review meetings with Business Analysis’ and Business stakeholders
• Provide testing and defect status updates in daily scrum stand-ups, team meetings as required
• Provide weekly report confirming status of assigned tasks

Knowledge Transfer Requirements

• Knowledge transfer is expected to occur throughout the duration of the assignment through regular meetings, touchpoints, and working sessions with LRC staff
• All design, development, artefacts, and source code, including all relevant and complete documents must be transferred to the ministry in the designated repositories provided
• Dedicated knowledge transfer sessions will be scheduled to ensure completeness of knowledge transfer and all documentation is shared, and allow LRC staff to ask clarification and/or follow up questions

Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements Manual Testing Skills/Experience - 65%

• 10+ years experience developing Test Cases/Scripts and Data Requirements, develop test scenarios, test cases for manual testing
• 10+ years experience develop test cases/scripts as well as test data, ensuring all of the Business requirements are met by creating a traceability matrix.
• 10+ years experience developing technical testing strategies / plans
• 10+ years experience testing non-functional requirements (e.g. fail-over, component response times, data integrity, security)
• 10+ years experience executing testing activities for a number of types of testing such as:
• Integration testing
• o  Unit testing
• o  Regression testing
• o  Functional testing
• o  Accessibility testing
• o  Non-functional testing
• Demonstrated experience in developing test plans, test scripts and test data; documenting software defects and tracking resolutions.
• Experience with User Acceptance Testing and leading initial UAT sessions

  Soft Skills - 30%

• Experience with agile methodology
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent meeting facilitation skills to gather requirements
• Experience reporting progress on deliverables to team, project leads and management, including proactively raising risks/issues with mitigations
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated experience working with clients and technical teams to ensure effective resolution of defects and management of change requests are complete
• Experience with User Acceptance Testing and leading initial UAT sessions

  Public Sector Experience – 5%

• Experience in testing enterprise level systems and exposure to ministry QA processes and standards within OPS
• Previous experience working in Government or Public Sector organizations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Public Sector applications, databases and systems while testing
• Experience working in accordance with policies and procedures of the Ontario Public Service
• Working knowledge of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
• Experience in quality assurance at the specified experience level
• Experience in testing Commercial off the Shelf Software (COTS/SaaS solutions), preferably Oracle Siebel Public Sector
• Working knowledge of SharePoint, .NET Web, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript and related scripting technologies for automation
• Knowledge and experience in the use of test tools and methodologies (Waterfall/Agile/Iterative)
• Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills, verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• Product cycle (functional & non-functional) testing experience
• Test case & Test Scenario design and review experience (from business requirements)
• Test case development experience
• Experience in defect tracking
• Test scenarios (use-cases) design and review
• Experience in writing manual/automated test scripts

We are looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!     Brief Description on Duties: Description: Individual Accountabilities:

• Responsible for executing technical and business projects across multiple stakeholders; developing analysis to support process and project improvements
• Manages and coordinates business and technical projects through all phases of initiation, development and implementation using SDLC methodology
• Works with clients to define and manage the scope, strategy, requirements, and implementation of projects
• Ensures that assigned projects are completed within budgets and schedules while meeting client business objectives
• Identifies, analyzes, mitigates, documents, and controls project risks
• Provides effective and regular communication within the project team, stakeholders, sponsors, and management
• Identifies resource needs for the project and establishes roles, expectations, and goals with team members
• Drives the assessment and management and mitigation of project risks that impede successful project delivery
• Reports on and manages project resource tracking and budgets for project area
• Understands nature of impact and creates lessons learned for future delivery
• Strong contributor able to enable others within immediate team
• Manage all aspects of the digital product development lifecycle, including project scoping, resource assignment, project plan development, budget management, project tracking, monitoring and reporting through the application of proven project management principles and methodologies.
• Develop and maintain all project documentation (Project Plan, Issue and Action Logs, Risk Management, Communication Plan, Status Reports, Post Implementation Reviews, etc.).
• Identify benefits expected from initiatives and conduct post implementation reviews to report on and track results.
• Pull together resources effectively to implement projects. Orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish objectives.
• Use critical thinking skills to anticipate and manage potential risks that will arise. Communicate these to the stakeholders on a regular basis and ensure decisions are made quickly and effectively.

Qualifications and Skills

• 7 -10 years progressive experience in project management, preferably in projects associated within the Human Resources domain
• Experience implementing Candidate Relationship Management applications associated with all aspects of recruitment and hiring
• Have expertise in managing both waterfall and Agile/Scrum project methodologies; PMP or CSM designation would be an asset
• Experience with both SDLC and Agile methodologies
• Experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, etc.) a plus.
• Sound foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure and architecture.
• Strong project financial forecasting and cost management
• Vendor management experience would be an asset
• Experience in defining and completing fit / gap analysis of technology solutions
• Understanding of IS Risk review processes and controls for technology implementations
• Ability to communicate effectively in both technical and non-technical terms.
• Has experience overseeing programmers, database admins, system engineers and architects, server admins, security admins, network engineers, vendor SME's, functional business managers
• Demonstrates skill, and strong interpersonal skills for the role across the project
• Strong working knowledge and experience of area of practice
• Use knowledge of the discipline and the market to suggest alternate approach options to leadership based on current project obstacles and objectives
• High standard of work within the project applying both skills and experience
• Links actions to clear outcomes
• Working knowledge of the business needs related to the project with some industry awareness of key trends
• Constantly learns from both success and failure
• Good organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to manage through creative abrasion
• Good verbal and written communication; able to effectively articulate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes to technical and non-technical audience
• Strong analytical skills, copes with complex situations using both skills and experience to lead to the right outcome