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Manager, Customer Care Modernization and System Testing Jobs in Toronto, Canada at Toronto Hydro
Title: Manager, Customer Care Modernization and System Testing
Company: Toronto Hydro
Location: Toronto, Canada
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Expected Salary Range: $100363 – $125454 Annually
Target Variable Performance Pay: 15%
The salary range shown above reflects the expected compensation for this position. The final salary offered will be determined based on a holistic assessment of the candidate’s experience, education, training, and alignment with the role’s requirements. For positions covered by a collective agreement, placement within the range will follow the applicable step or classification.
Reporting to the Director, Customer Care Modernization, the Manager, Customer Care Modernization and Testing leads a team of experienced resources to implement and/or optimize business process (meter to cash), user experience and conduct user acceptance testing to meet business goals within Customer Experience & Public Affairs. The incumbent will work in close partnership with internal stakeholders (e.g. Customer Experience Operations, Information Technology, Regulatory, etc.)
to develop roadmaps for implementation of emerging tools for customer experience, creating testing strategies leveraging Agile principles, leading process re-engineering initiatives and advocating for the interests of customers (from inaccurate bills, poor customer experience, missing payments, website/mobile app issues, ease-of-use, etc.), meeting regulations, identifying, and resolving defects to new and existing Customer Journey systems and to advance long term technology initiatives to meet divisional and/or organizational strategic priorities.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Leads a team of experienced resources to implement innovative solutions, customer experience-emerging tools, lead business process re-engineering and conduct system testing in support of new/planned changes to customer experience information systems and data platforms.
- Manages teams’ day-to-day performance and productivity related activities performed by union and administrative support resources, including safety, attendance, engagement, and training & development activities to deliver on divisional and company strategic priorities.
- Provides coaching and feedback to motivate and engage employee outcomes in the attainment of organizational goals and objectives; acts to address gaps in performance to promote successful outcomes. Identifies any skill opportunities and makes recommendations for training and/or education sessions for the identified test resources.
- Creates and plans user acceptance testing strategies, obtains stakeholder feedback and agreement, and determines all required elements in the UAT cycle and on which systems, leads the team to develop test scripts and execute system testing, testing schedule, resources, and testing quality.
- Manages the centralized planning, scheduling, monitoring and control of testing activities and tasks for all Customer Experience systems to protect the interest of customers to meet regulations, resolve defects in Customer Experience systems, and maintain existing functionality amidst system changes (regression testing, validation testing, smoke testing).
- Schedules tests for execution against initiative priorities, resourcing cycles, and team workload monitors, measures, controls and reports on the test progress, product quality status and test results, adapting the test plan as needed to adjust to evolving conditions.
- Works with the business stakeholders and Information Technology to schedule and promote changes into the production environments. In addition, instilling quality control of testing and product releases.
- Reviews, develops, and provides input to documents and business processes to support best practices and business readiness activities (job aids, user guides, communication products, training documents, etc.).
- Acts as the key business resource to provide customer experience testing expertise in relation to business knowledge for multiple concurrent projects and initiatives.
- Works with Customer Experience & Public Affairs and Information Technology project leadership to set objectives, timelines, priorities, estimates, and scope expectations.
- Develops work plans, provides project status updates for projects and establishes quality standards and milestones
- Supports the strategy and customer experience technology roadmap identified for projects and partners with IT to provide exceptional quality on deliverables.
- Builds and maintains relationships across Customer Experience & Public Affairs, Information Technology, Regulatory, Legal, Climate Action, etc., to obtain knowledge/understanding of current and future system functionality and enhanced offerings. Devises the test objectives, test strategies and test plans, and obtains agreement from impacted stakeholders.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, information technology or business administration and / or equivalent of education and experience.
- Five (5) years of project management (waterfall and Agile) in Dev. Ops, change management and program leadership experience…