Role Responsibilities

Are you passionate about making a real impact in an important branch that oversees the levying and collection of royalty revenues that benefits all Albertans? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where strategic thinking, agility, and collaboration are key?

Royalty Operations, within the Energy Operations Division under the Ministry of Energy and Minerals, currently has one position available for agile and results-driven Quality Assurance Analyst who can provide leadership, direction and oversight to their team, administering royalty programs.

Quality Assurance Analyst Business Solutions (Permanent)
The Quality Assurance Analyst plays a vital role in managing the IT systems and information that support oil royalty policy development and program administration.

Reporting to the Team Lead Business Solutions, this position requires a strong understanding of the oil production reporting process—from extraction to pipeline delivery and royalty collection. By leveraging technical and business expertise, the Analyst ensures efficient system operations and data accuracy to support strategic decision-making within the department.

The successful candidate will oversee system functionality, evaluate application issues, and coordinate acceptance testing to ensure successful implementation of IT solutions. They will analyze data structures, business rules, and relevant legislation while providing input on application design and cross-system testing. Additionally, they will engage with various teams and committees to provide business and technical consultation, ensuring alignment with Oil Royalty Operations requirements.

Beyond system management, this role requires proactive problem-solving to identify inefficiencies and recommend improvements for continuous optimization. The Analyst will also support stakeholder relationships, fulfill operational tasks, and ensure legislative and policy requirements are met within all phases of application development.

Quality Assurance Analyst Business Solutions: responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Successful execution of complex business functional testing. Coordinate acceptance testing including writing requirements, developing test cases for complex situations that span multiple applications, and ensuring successful test results and deployment. Train business users in any new functionality.
• Provide a critical link between Oil Royalty Operations and IT to define and clarify business, legislative and policy requirements through all phases of application design, development, acceptance testing, implementation and ongoing enhancements.
• Contribute to the efficient and cohesive operations of the Royalty Operations Branch.
• Establish, maintain, and enhance internal and external stakeholder relationships.
• Fulfill all operations tasks within the Royalty Operations Branch.
• Determine appropriate approaches to responsibilities, exercising judgement when interacting with external clients, IT representatives and internal stakeholders to define business requirements and develop associated solutions. Given the diversity of issues and stakeholders.

Role Responsibilities (cont'd)

To be successful in this role, you must have following skills and knowledge:

• Comprehensive understanding of gas and oil royalty business processes, including industry practices and reporting requirements for Gas Royalty Operations and Petroleum Royalty Regulation.
• Familiarity with multiple systems such as Mineral Revenues Information System (MRIS), Royalty And Marketing system (RAM), Corporate Accounting Revenue System (CARS2), Alberta Mineral Information (AMI), and Petroleum Information Excellence (Petrinex).
• Strong understanding of the Mines and Minerals Act, Oil Royalty Regulation, and Policies and Procedures related to the Alberta Royalty Framework (ARF) and Modernized Royalty Framework (MRF).
• Basic understanding of Oil and Gas Production Accounting.
• Critical thinking, attention to detail, and sound judgment are vital skills required for this position.

Please click on this link to view the job description for this position.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

• Creative Problem Solving: Continually looks for innovative solutions to improve efficiency and service delivery. Anticipate, solve and learn from situations that occur in the work environment.
• Drive for results: The team has many critical deadlines that must be met.  Strong project management and delegation skills are needed to ensure all tasks are completed accurately, and in a timely manner.  Works with other teams when gathering data for analysis or for recurring tasks.  Maintains good communication.  Engages with stakeholders to resolve issues.
• System Thinking: Analysis of effectiveness of royalty programs in meeting the policy intent.
• Build Collaborative Environments: Maintain communication with other subject matter experts within Energy and Minerals to keep information flowing around new developments and changing processes.
• Agility: Works in a changing environment and takes initiative to change.  Takes opportunities to improve work processes. Anticipates alternative approaches and outcomes, and prepares for them.

Qualifications

University graduation in a related field with no related experience.

Related experience or education may be considered as an equivalency on a one for one basis.

The following will be considered assets:

• Experience in User Acceptance Testing.
• Knowledge using Crystal Reports, SAS, and other data tools.
• Experience in oil and gas royalty business including AER reporting and industry practices.
• Experience in production and financial accounting practices.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

Hours of Work:
7.25 daily hours.

36.25Hrs Weekly hours.

8:15AM to 4:30PM (Monday to Friday).

Location: Petroleum Plaza Building North Tower, 9945 108 Street NW, Edmonton.

This competition maybe used to fill future vacancies across the Government of Alberta, at equal or lower classification and salary.

Successful candidates will be required to disclose any business or financial interests, including the owning of shares or financial investments in the energy sector, to comply with the Department of Energy & Minerals’ Supplementary Code of Conduct.

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

What GoA offers:

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca.
• Management Employees Pension Plan (MEPP) - https://www.mepp.ca.
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
• Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
• Opportunity to participate in flexible work arrangements such as working from home up to two days per week and modified work schedule agreement.
• Leadership and mentorship programs.