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CBC/Radio-Canada Senior Developer, Quality Engineering, ADaPT (MDI), CBC (English Services) (Telework/Hybrid) in Toronto, Ontario
Position Title:
Senior Developer, Quality Engineering, ADaPT (MDI), CBC (English Services) (Telework/Hybrid)
Status of Employment:
Contractee Long-Term (Fixed Term)
Position Language Requirement:
English
Language Skills:
English (Reading - C - Advanced), English (Speaking - B - Intermediate), English (Writing - C - Advanced)
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:
2025-02-17 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 position 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?
As a public organization, we are committed to protecting and handling our audience’s personal information in the most transparent and ethical way possible. To help us achieve this, we are looking for a Quality Engineering Automation Developer who has experience with integrating consent management platforms. You will also have the opportunity to learn or expand your knowledge in personalization, and work with data on a larger scale to create unique, customized experiences.
You will be part of defining and shaping an engaging experience for over 18 million Canadians using a vast amount of data in a way that is respectful of everyone's privacy.
As part of an integral team, you will have the chance to show initiative and seek out collaborative opportunities with other product development teams to guarantee the success of our privacy and data collection platforms. You will make a direct contribution to the CBC.ca website and global infrastructure, exploring opportunities to optimize our platforms’ Integrations.
Most recently, our team created personalized user-facing interfaces on the landing page for CBC’s Olympics landing page enabling a unique customized view of the Olympics content based on what the DMP tool determined to be of interest.
If you're passionate about Canada and you love technology, learning and bringing out the best in others, you’ll love working at CBC.
CBC/Radio-Canada is the largest broadcaster in Canada and this team is at the very heart of its content creation experience. The Audience Data and Privacy Team (ADaPT) is responsible for building, maintaining and supporting the workflows and tools that allows us to better understand our audience and better tailor content to their individual needs. We accomplish this by federating content produced by CBC for distribution across CBC’s applications and broadly to content aggregators worldwide, delivering News, Sports, Podcasts, On-demand audio information to thousands of Canadians. We work with a lot of content types and platforms ranging from APIs, GQL, podcast audio files, live stream sporting events to audio content management.
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 partner with the existing QE to take the lead in coaching the ADaPT team in the practice of automated testing.
You will expand the automated regression testing framework for our web/mobile platforms to ensure our 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 be collaborating with other teams to ensure that the entire stack of products, including UI/UX, content management, and data, all function smoothly together through end to end testing
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:
You have significant experience working with third party API integrations as the team creates and maintains APIs which power our web applications and apps
Data governance and privacy expertise: You have a general awareness of Privacy by Design, a general awareness of consent frameworks (Interactive Advertising Bureau’s - IAB’s Transparency Consent Frameworks), and a general awareness of privacy legislation (GDPR, CCPA, Bill C-27, Quebec law 25)
You have used a variety of test automation tools such as Cypress, Jest, Playwright, JMockit or Postman and you can make a case for choosing one technology over another and knowledge of nodejs, typescript
You are comfortable working in a cloud and containerized environment using GCP, Azure, AWS, OpenShift, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Experience in coaching colleagues in the practice of unit, integration and end to end automated testing.
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
Experience with load testing tools such as Jmeter, K6 is good to have.
Experience with consumer and provider driven contract testing is good to have.
Experience with monitoring tools and frameworks like Prometheus, OpenTelemetry is good 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 (https://medium.com/cbc-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.
As part of our recruitment process, candidates who advance to the next
step will be asked to complete a background check. This includes:
A mandatory Criminal record check.
Other background checks may be conducted based on the operational requirements of the position.
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 (http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/working-with-us/jobs/diversity-inclusion-cbc-rc) 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 (http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/vision/governance/corporate-policies/values-ethics/conduct) . 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 (http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/vision/governance/corporate-policies/human-resources/conflicts) . 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
At CBC/Radio-Canada (http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en) , 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.