Job Description:

As a member of the AOSQE, the Software Quality Engineer will provide functional and automated testing services and quality assurance activities throughout the systems development life cycle for medium, large, complex or high-risk software development and agile projects. This role is focused on mainframe application delivery in an Agile team and requires a candidate who has significant hands-on QE experience in large, complex initiatives, capable of both performing functional manual testing and can design and develop Automated testing for functional and regression tests.

What will you do?

• Contribute to the analysis of complex business requirements and creating test strategy/plan to ensure thorough coverage
• Design, develop detailed test cases to thoroughly test complex use cases and scenarios covering functional requirements
• Execute manual and/or automated test cases to validate business application logic and identify software defects
• Collaborate within cross-functional agile team on shift-left testing and automation reuse
• Document and track product defects, providing detailed reproduction steps, expected and actual results
• Contribute to the automation and quality engineering best practices within the Agile team
• Provide timely and effective communication to management, relating to quality, resource and project issues & concerns.
• Navigate effectively through complex challenges, involving others to solve problems and achieve goals

What will you need to succeed?

• 3-5 years of relevant work experience, including development and/or quality engineering experience
• Strong experience in creation and execution of both manual and automated test cases, ensuring thorough validation of business application logic against defined requirements
• Solid experience in QE best practices, tools, and approach to testing front-end and back-end applications
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and work collaboratively with cross functional team members to analyze and resolve issues
• Experience in functional, non-functional, regression, integration and end-to-end testing of Mainframe and front-end applications
• Hands on automation experience in test automation frameworks and tools like Tricentis Tosca, Cucumber, Selenium, Python
• Knowledge in BDD, TDD testing framework
• Demonstrated understanding of Agile methodologies, DevOps, shift-left and in-sprint testing, CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jira/Confluence, qTest or equivalent Test Management tool
• Demonstrated use of prompt engineering in generative AI for testing
• Excellent communications skills, able to convey complex technical concepts to business partners
• High attention to detail, strong analytical skills, quick learner and autonomous
• As this position is posted in several locations, we specify that bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) is required for Quebec only for the frequent interactions with English and French-speaking colleagues or internal partners across Canada or worldwide.

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.  

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you! Several work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Salary Range:

65,000/65 000 - 105,000/105 000

Job Category:

IT - Application Development

Posting End Date:

09/07/2026