Application Support Specialist - Senior

Job Title: Application Support Specialist - Senior
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Duration: 12 Months
Hybrid - candidate must be able to work onsite 3 days and 2 days remote

Responsibilities:

• Under the direction of the Senior Technical Manager and the Project Manager, this role will be part of the Education Capital Information System (ECIS) project team that will be asked, amongst other things, to ensure exceptional a customer first attitude throughout their day-to-day activities.
• Responsible for providing support to ECIS end users via email, support tickets and phone calls in both English and French
• Management and reporting of Help Desk tickets
• Escalating tier 2 and tier 3 support issues, and follow up as required
• Building and management of core help desk support knowledge base
• Prepare test materials, conduct QA and regression testing of defect fixes and change requests as required.
• Provide support to the business team by walking through delivered defects and change requests.
• Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop and maintain project documentation
• Directly supporting ECIS TRIRIGA team and building TRIRIGA application subject matter expertise

• Experience with IBM TRIRIGA Applications and/or other related IWMS systems
• Direct technical COTS application customer support experience
• Familiarity with agile teams and methodologies and tools, including JIRA
• Ability to work independently and work across an integrated project team
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas
• Ability to promote I&IT best practices and adherence to standard methodologies

• Demonstrates experience preparing and conducting functional testing (e.g. QA, SIT, UAT) including defect retesting
• Experience with providing help desk support to ends users for IT applications
• Possess a working proficiency level in French (reading, writing, oral interaction)
• Experience with IBM TRIRIGA Applications and/or other related IWMS systems
• Experience working and effectively communicating with both IT project teams and business users