Alberta Gaming, Liquor & Cannabis (AGLC) is a dynamic organization leading Alberta’s gaming, liquor and cannabis industries. Our team of high performers is driven to provide our customers with outstanding service and Albertans with choices they can trust.
ABOUT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
IT proudly provides the computer systems, security, IT services and governance that support AGLC’s businesses, including the operation & support of mission critical gaming, liquor and corporate systems running on a variety of computing platforms. IT ensures the stability and performance of a Local/Wide Area Network, which supports over 1,200 gaming locations and more than 2,000 computers/tablets, 150 physical and 2,000 virtual servers distributed across six corporate offices, casinos, RECs and bingo halls. IT provides leadership in the use of information technology, data and systems to help the AGLC achieve business goals and objectives.
ABOUT THE POSITION
QA Environment Analyst
Job Req: 1287
Location: St. Albert - Corriveau
Division/Branch: Information Technology / Enterprise Solutions
Classification: Systems Analyst 3
Status: Permanent - FT
Salary: $75,282.52 - $103,366.67 * The salary for this position is currently under review as part of AGLC’s broader Non‑Union Compensation review, which is intended to support alignment with market practices. Compensation details for this role may be adjusted following completion of the review.
Reports to: Rob Spiller
Closing Date: August 31, 2026
JOB SUMMARY:
Are you an organized tech professional ready to step into an enterprise-scale governance role? Do you excel at coordinating moving parts and keeping diverse IT environments running like clockwork?
We are looking for a QA Environment Analyst to serve as the coordinator of our non-production environments. In this role, you will provide the operational oversight and planning required to ensure our non-production environments remain stable, secure, and aligned with major enterprise releases.
As our QA Environment Analyst, you will act as a central facilitator and delivery anchor. Your key activities will include:
- Lifecycle Coordination: Manage the planning, scheduling, and tracking lifecycles of all non-production environments.
- Calendar Management: Maintain master enterprise environment calendars to schedule provisioning, environment refreshes, planned downtime activities, deployments and troubleshooting.
- Test Data & Account Management: Coordinate and govern the creation, maintenance, access, roles, security, and cleanup of test data and test accounts, ensuring appropriate data, accounts, and permissions are available for planned testing across non-production environments.
- Conflict Resolution: Proactively identify and resolve scheduling conflicts between overlapping project timelines and testing tracks.
- Readiness & Process Governance: Facilitate environment readiness checkpoints and formal go/no-go release readiness discussions.
- Vendor & Agile Facilitation: Ensure software deliverables scheduled by external vendors strictly meet AGLC's agile best practices, quality benchmarks, and production readiness requirements.
SKILLS & ABILITIES:
- Education: A university degree or two-year college diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline. Recent graduates with a strong technical foundation are encouraged to apply.
- Analytical Problem Solving: Natural capability to map technical requirements, assess system-wide impacts, and untangle scheduling dependencies.
- Relationship Management: Excellent communication skills needed to align platform architects, business analysts, and external delivery vendors.
- Organizational Excellence: Meticulous attention to detail required to manage multiple moving infrastructure pieces without dropping the ball.
- Exposure to Agile/Scrum environments, automated release frameworks, or environment orchestration workflows.
- Knowledge of Salesforce, SAP, MuleSoft, Azure, APIs, and Middleware integrations.
- Experience coordinating with technical teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors.
- Understanding enterprise application ecosystems and integrated platforms.
NOTE:
- To be eligible to work for AGLC, you must be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or eligible to work in Canada.
- While we appreciate all applications we receive, we advise that only candidates under consideration will be contacted.
- As a condition of employment, you will be required to obtain a satisfactory security clearance and clean drivers abstract (if necessary) prior to employment.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. Candidates with lesser qualifications may be considered at a lower classification and salary. This recruitment may be used to fill future vacancies.
- AGLC is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
