Underwriting Case Manager (Current Employee) – Waterloo, ON – 27 March 2017
The flex time is a great bonus. Management is very understanding. Able to move within the company. Likely to hire you permanently. Decent benefits. Friendly staff.
Intermediate Full Stack Developer (Current Employee) – Waterloo, ON – 7 May 2018
its a good work place for the most part. very genuine people. might get too stuck up in bureaucracy. parking is a problem if you own a car. can get slightly monotonous and boring at times.
IT Security Support (Former Employee) – Waterloo, ON – 5 February 2017
Really enjoyed it, good place for new folks to the corporation world. Learned A lot from my job everyone that I worked with was nice and willing to teach me.
Actuarial Co-op (Former Employee) – Waterloo, ON – 29 November 2015
I enjoyed my time at Equitable Life. It has a very down to earth culture, and it is easy to get to know the company. It is a very inclusive culture. However, I felt that advancement opportunities were limited, but otherwise it is a very great place to start your career!
Pros
Great people, culture, and many learning opportunities
Health & Dental Claims Adjudicator (Current Employee) – Waterloo, ON – 2 February 2015
Great employer, provide customer service daily, discuss employee benefits, problem solve daily, respond to 50+ emails daily and between 65-100+ phone calls regarding benefits inquiries
Eastern Regional Group Administrative Assistant (Current Employee) – Markham, ON – 4 December 2014
My review of my current work place is amazing - i have been with this company for over 20 years. I love coming to work everyday. I especially love working with all my co-workers as well. My job is quite interesting as we deal with customers on a daily basis.
Pros
Skill Drills are exciting, family orientated environment
Regional Sales Representative (Current Employee) – Calgary, AB – 25 September 2014
This is a great company to work for. Like any company they have their positives and negatvies, however, I would say that they are probably one of the best companies I've worked for. I work in a supportive environment with great staff and a wonderful manager.
QA Analyst (Former Employee) – Waterloo, ON – 24 July 2014
Equitable Life provides Group and individual Insurance in Canada and US. This project involves the development of adding new functions in their existing BMS Legacy system. The New function is the Addition of Flex process so that people who have insurance with the company has more flexibility to choose benefits individually rather then there employer select the benefits for them. • Responsible for deliverables, developing the Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and detailed Test Cases, based on the Use Case Documents, Business Requirements and Functional Specifications. • Reviewed the architecture of the application and understood the requirements of the project • Created Test scenarios based on Functional requirements and provided them to the Business Analyst for Sign-off. • Created Test cases in Quality Center test plan tab and mapped to requirements • Mapped the Test cases to the requirements using Requirement coverage tab in Quality Center • Performed Sanity testing by executing Sanity test cases on newly received application builds in QA environment • Provided build acceptance confirmation to the project members of successful Sanity testing • Performed Cross Browser testing on different browser to check the compatibility of the application with the browsers • Performed Regression testing on the new build after defect fixes and code enhancements • Created defect reports and provided to the management • Handling coordination of offshore, onsite team activities, regular interaction with Client, providing them project status, daily and weekly reports, discussionsmore... on issues and dependencies. • Provided daily execution and defect reports to QA lead using customized reports from Quality center. • Environment: Agile methodology, BMS, HP-QTP & QC, VB Script, HTML, XML, DHTML, Oracle, SQL, MSless
Group Administration Specialist (Former Employee) – Waterloo, ON – 9 July 2014
During my 5 years at this place of employement I truly felt a sense of teamwork in such a large company. A typical day at work consisted of assisting clients in a number of ways. Applying the knowledge obtained to answer questions and enter data appropriately into the computer. We relied on working together as a team to maintain a healthy working relationship. As a team we worked together to create the ultimate client experience from helping one another with a problem to engaging in team building exercises. The most enjoyable part of the job was the team building company events. For example, company bbqs to company wide adopt-a family programs. Overall, it was an enjoyable experience. One in which although was stressful at times, taught me a lot and left me with a sense of accomplishment at the end of everyday.
Pros
Company Benefits, Company team building, flexible hours