Specialist III-IC Quality Assurance
About The Position
BMO Bank N.A. seeks a Specialist III-IC Quality Assurance professional to ensure product quality throughout the technology lifecycle. The role collaborates with application, infrastructure, and middleware teams to align testing with development objectives and supports testing across complex solutions, multiple platforms, and business groups. It designs and maintains test plans across environments, reviews requirements for testability, documents test outcomes, identifies and tracks defects, and performs root cause analysis using historical tracking. The position coordinates defect triage and certification activities, responds to production issues, verifies compliance with unit-testing standards, and performs integration and regression testing to validate fixes and system performance. It advances testing automation and continuous improvement, analyzes results and quality metrics, and communicates findings to stakeholders. The role also tests peripherals, including check scanners, receipt printers, and pin pads, and contributes to strategic planning through trend analysis and cross-functional collaboration. This is a hybrid position eligible for at least one remote workday per week. The stated salary range for this position in Naperville, Illinois, is $115,768.98–$151,800 per year. BMO also lists a general pay range of $75,000–$160,000 and offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (3- or 4-year) or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Business, or a related field.
- Four years of experience as a Test Analyst or in a related occupation.
- Experience leading and initiating testing for bundle releases and working with upstream and downstream systems, including managing test execution and coordinating resources to resolve problems in an IT or business environment.
- Experience analyzing test results and preparing comprehensive system-level evaluation reports to verify and validate system functionality and performance.
- Experience designing and supporting testing strategy implementation for complex solutions across multiple platforms and business groups.
- Experience orchestrating supporting functions such as end-to-end testing, test data management, reporting, and defect management.
- Experience reviewing, evaluating, and deriving requirements for testability into a Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and required automation tools.
- Experience driving testing automation during bundle releases, including script review, script development, and script execution.
- Experience serving as an escalation point for project stakeholders, organizational leadership, and executives regarding software testing.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and middleware teams to align testing efforts with development objectives.
- Design, develop, and maintain comprehensive test plans across multiple environments.
- Review requirements and documentation to plan and execute tests, and confirm requirements are testable.
- Document test outcomes, identify and track defects, and conduct root cause analysis supported by historical tracking.
- Coordinate defect triage and certification activities and document incidents.
- Respond to and troubleshoot production issues; verify compliance with unit-testing standards.
- Perform integration and regression testing to validate fixes and overall system performance.
- Analyze test results and quality metrics, prepare system-level evaluation reports, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
- Drive testing automation for bundle releases, including script review, development, and execution, and support continuous improvement using established best practices.
- Test peripherals such as check scanners, receipt printers, and pin pads.
- Contribute to strategic planning through trend analysis and cross-functional collaboration.
- Serve as an escalation point for project stakeholders and organizational leadership on software testing matters.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Accident insurance
- Life insurance
- Retirement savings plans
- Performance-based incentives and discretionary bonuses may be included in total compensation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
