QA Automation Engineer

We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contract
Title: QA Automation Engineer
Term: 6-months (with extension) – 37.5 hours/Week
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 1-2 weeks on-site
Job ID number: C1194

Brief Description of Duties: 

• Design, develop and maintain automation framework/software solutions
• Recommend innovative ideas to automate and reduce manual QA efforts
• Coordinate and perform all testing activities in the software development process
• Build, maintain and analyze the regression suit being used by automation tools
• Work with RESTful APIs, Restful Interfaces, Regular Expressions
• Participate in ongoing process improvement efforts to ensure test automation is promoted and applied effectively in the squad
• Research tools, methods, and technology trends to support program test automation objectives
• Analyze and present test reports to project teams
• Optimize and improve testing process where applicable to increase testing efficiency

Must Have Skills: 

• Automation design and scripting skills
• Strong development skills with Selenium, Python and Pytest Framework, Web Services, REST API, LoadRunner, JMETER, POSTMAN etc.
• Experienced with variety of Quality Assurance technology architecture including application, infrastructure, data and security
• Solid understanding of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum frameworks
• Good understanding of web frameworks
• Application Development Life Cycle – SDLC
• Experience with Tools such as JIRA, TestRail
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, technical, and troubleshooting skills
• Well organized, result-oriented, self-motivated, collaborative
• Experience in all functions of system testing
• Experience in software development and quality assurance

Nice to Have Skills: 

• Experience with automation within the Salesforce platform (Service Cloud/ Experience Cloud
• Previous experience in Financial Services and/or Capital Markets Industry
• Organized, focused and persistent – ability to work to the plan and meet delivery dates
• Experience using automation frameworks is an asset
• Knowledge of Javascript is an asset