Intermediate QA Automation Engineer with strong Java and Selenium experience to work with one of our major banking clients- 38045

Intermediate QA Automation Engineer with strong Java and Selenium experience to work with one of our major banking clients- 38045

Location Address: Toronto/Hybrid - 3-4 days/week onsite with NO exceptions (exactly which days TBD based on which squad/team they are on) - 3 days in Sept and once real estate is sorted will increase to 4

Contract Duration: ASAP to 05/29/2026 - approx. 8.5 months (Possibility of extension & conversion to FTE)

Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

Story Behind the Need

• Business group: Client Engineering - Commerce Engineering - supports content delivery platforms and services; works on public site (Scotiabank.com), product onboarding
• Project: Instant Banking Access - part of product onboarding domain, details of project are confidential, will be shared once they join, it is related to product onboarding (how new and existing customers can onboard products digitally)
• Contributes to the overall success of Commerce Engineering in Canada ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Typical Day in Role:

• Be an advocate for quality in the project lifecycle.

• Write moderate to complex code/ scripts to test systems.

• Design, develop and maintain a modular, extensible, and reusable test automation framework to enable continuous testing in an agile environment.

• Collaborate closely with other team members to develop test approach that effectively covers the functional performance characteristics of features in the applications.

• Collaborate with Delivery Lead to plan milestones, successfully execute software delivery, and escalate issues as needed.

• Report defects and work closely with the team so that solutions can be determined, prioritized, and scheduled.

• Prioritize testing of projects effectively across various businesses, to drive efficient work.

• Conduct root cause analysis of post-production issues and plan to prevent them in future.

• Have in-depth and up-to-date understanding of the organization’s products, applications, systems, environments, processes and tools.

• Introduce and influence overall process improvements and act as an agent for change to the organization.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 5+ years of demonstrated hands-on and in-depth Test Automation experience

- testing on both web and mobile applications

2) 5+ years of Test Automation experience with Java or JavaScript

3) 5+ years of Test Automation experience with frameworks, and utilities (e.g. Selenium WebDriver or WebDriverIO)

4) 2+ years’ recent experience with API testing

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1) Experience within an FI

2) Behaviour driven development (BDD) using Cucumber

Soft Skills Required:

Excellent communication skills with ability to influence decision making across stakeholders

Effective organization, planning, and time management skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Able to work as part of a team and encourage both individual and collaborative innovation

Positive and resilient personality - Able to embrace feedback and have a desire for continuous iteration and improvement

Education:

Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field preferred

Best VS. Average Candidate:

Ideal candidate has strong communication skills as they will be interacting with cross functional teams from product to delivery teams so they can articulate issues before going to production, web and mobile experience vs. just SAP product experience, they need interaction with web applications, preferably within FI but could also be e-commerce platforms etc; BDD experience with Cucumber is an asset

Candidate Review & Selection

Codility Test prior to interviews - 40 minutes; 2 questions- please ensure they are NOT copying in responses from elsewhere even internally from the control panel or IDE as this will be flagged as fraud, should put in answer DIRECTLY into coding platform , the system tracks what the actions are and records step by step (think of it as screen recording) and will play that back, if the solution also is similar to something on the internet this will flag - not copying from their notes or Google as this will flag as fraudulent and won’t be proceeding - as long as solution is unique and original and isn’t copied (so doesn’t need to be 100% - importance is NOT copying form anywhere)

What to expect: the Codility tests are based on data structures and algorithms - it is language agnostic so they can choose the language they want to code in.

- Please ensure they try to attempt BOTH questions and spend equal time on both, not just 1 - so e.g. they can allot 20 mins for each

1st Interview - 1-hour technical panel video interview with team, follow-up questions from test and other live coding assignments

Candidates should have MS Teams set up ahead of time, and ready to be on video and share their screen for the live assignments.

Final Interview - 45 minutes with HM - more behavioural