Position Title:
CBC Senior Developer, Quality Engineering, Analytics (English Services) (Telework/Hybrid)
Status of Employment:
Contractee Long-Term (Fixed Term)
Position Language Requirement:
English
Language Skills:
English (Reading), English (Speaking), English (Writing)
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.
Unposting Date:
2024-09-23 11:59 PM
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.
This is a hybrid role with a mix of in-office and remote work. Work arrangements will be discussed with hiring managers per departmental guidelines.
Why is this role important?
The Analytics team has a key role: in collecting, processing and sending behavioral signals to analytics reporting services and machines to empower teams to make data driven decisions.
This product group relies on understanding and improving the site and content metadata that our CBC digital teams rely on. The work done to improve the health of our metadata helps improve the ability for CBC to deliver amazing content to our audiences.
In this role you will be collaborating with:
- Product teams developing content management systems;
- Product teams developing content delivery systems;
- Product teams that build machines to better utilize data;
- Teams that build audience facing products;
- Business intelligence and audience research analysts.
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.
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
- 20% of time for innovation, learning and development; wherever your interests lie
- 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
How you will make an impact:
- You will take the lead in coaching the Analytics team in the practice of automated testing.
- You will expand the automated regression testing framework for our web/mobile analytics platforms to ensure our analytics products 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.
What you bring to our team:
- Experience implementing Software Automation, preferably development and testing in JavaScript and Java automation frameworks.
- Experience in coaching colleagues in the practice of unit, integration and end to end automated testing.
- You have used a variety of test automation tools such as Appium, Selenium, Cypress, Jest, Playwright, JMockit or Postman and you can make a case for choosing one technology over another.
- Experience in using Test Case Management tools such as Testrail would be a nice to have.
- Experience using Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics is nice to have.
- Experience using proxy tools such as Charles Proxy and/or Fiddler to manually QA analytics integrations on iOS, Android and OTT devices is a nice to have.
- Experience capturing HAR files that contain outgoing network calls on web, iOS, Android and OTT devices is a nice to have.
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.
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.
Primary Location:
Broadcast Centre 205 Wellington St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3G7
Number of Openings:
1
Work Schedule:
Full time