ORACLE UTILITIES CCB - Quality Assurance Lead

Sia Partners is a next-generation management consulting firm and pioneer of Consulting 4.0. We offer a unique blend of AI and design capabilities, augmenting traditional consulting to deliver superior value to our clients. With expertise in more than 40 sectors and services, we optimize client projects worldwide. Through our Consulting for Good approach, we strive for next-level impact by developing innovative CSR solutions for our clients, making sustainability a lever for profitable transformation.

Our continued success and expansion are primarily due to the quality of our team members. Our consultants work closely with the C-suite at our clients to accelerate and de-risk business growth while improving their customer and employee experience.  

We are seeking a highly skilled and enthusiastic Quality Assurance Lead to validate the accuracy, completeness, and quality of a large scale and complex implementation and upgrade of ORACLE UTILITIES Customer Care & Billing (CCB) and Meter Data Management (MDM).

The work will be located in Edmonton AB – and you must be willing to work on-site minimum of 3 - 4 days per week. If you do not live in Edmonton, travel expenses will be covered, however, you must be willing to commit to the weekly travel.  

We are able to consider either subcontractors OR individuals interested in permanent employment with Sia Partners.

If you are interested in the employee option, you must ALREADY BE LEGALLY ELIGIBLE to work in Canada, holding either Permanent Residency or full Citizenship status.  We are not able to offer visa sponsorship or relocation expenses at this time.    

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure software is delivered with the right quality and reduced risk.
• Establish and engage employees, vendor, and contract resources to ensure test strategies are communicated and understood.
• Provide leadership focusing on roles, process, tools and automation.
• Focus on improving the efficiency, velocity and quality of testing processes and releases.
• Execute, Teach, Train, Coach – manage overall testing activities with different interfaces (integrations)
• Perform General Testing (Functional and Automated testing) – To release a stable application to production.
• Performance Testing – Ensuring the solution is optimized for its expected load.
• Develop a testing strategy – Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of testing.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts based on test cases identified for automation utilizing the selected toolset (OUTA).
• Outline manual testing procedures which includes writing and executing functional, smoke, sanity, integration, regression & UI testing.
• Execute and analyze automated regression suites to ensure quality.
• Initiate testing process improvement tasks to increase efficiency, reduce costs, simplify processes, and improve quality.
• Create Test planning and strategy documentation in accordance with testing scope and coverage.
• Participate in production deployment and release meetings to help ensure successful deployments.
• Facilitate and coordinate User acceptance testing with business users.

• You MUST HAVE at least 8-10 years experience in QA and/or Test Lead roles – with at least one significant CCB or MDM project under your belt – ideally in Oracle Utilities Customer Cloud Services (CCS)
• You MUST HAVE experience working with Oracle Utilities Application Framework (OUAF) and have worked on projects implementing customer, metering, and billing solutions, specifically Meter to Cash (M2C), Data for Spatial Cloud Interface (DSCI), and Quote to Cash (Q2C)
• Certifications for ORACLE UTILITIES CC&B &/or CCS is mandatory
• ISTQB certification will be seen as an asset
• Strong communication: both verbal and written / documentation skills
• Proven ability to work within a fast-paced, high-pressure environment

WHAT DO WE OFFER? 

*Candidates interested in becoming a Sia employee: 

This is an opportunity to join a rapidly growing team to serve some of the most exciting and highly respected companies in the world. You will have the opportunity to provide clients with pioneer mind-set thinking, customized solutions, and you will often have the satisfaction of seeing the impact of your work on their business. We are committed to a healthy work-life integration.

BENEFITS

• Competitive salary with a clear and structured yearly salary increase and bonuses
• Healthcare that includes dental, vision, life insurance, and RRSP contributions
• Career advocacy program that supports achieving personal development goals through coaching, collaboration, and real-time feedback
• Robust learning and development platform through the Sia Institute, Working Groups and Training
• Reimbursement for continuing education and certifications
• Your team will consist of highly educated, specialized and entrepreneurial consultants within a company which is a successful player in the global consulting market
• Working in an  environment which creates opportunities to share knowledge and work together on international projects with colleagues all over the world

DEIB

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are part of Sia Partners’ DNA. Thanks to our expertise in several sectors and our international growth, our teams include a variety of experiences and cultures. We’re confident that promoting DEIB creates an environment in which everyone can reach their full potential.

Our global network, DEIB@Sia Partners, brings together our people worldwide to facilitate local and global progress, focused on the following areas:

• Gender equality (global Gender Equality Index score of 91/100 for FY19-20)
• LGBTQ+
• Race & Ethnicity
• Working Parents
• Disabilities

To learn more about Sia Partners, please visit: 

https://www.sia-partners.com/en/join-us

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.