Senior Automation Test Engineer (Selenium/Java) experience to work with one of our financial services clients- 15501

Senior Automation Test Engineer (Selenium/Java) experience to work with one of our financial services clients- 15501

Location Address: Toronto or Waterloo (3 days onsite per week)

Contract Duration: 1 year (Possibility of extension)

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

Role Overview

We are hiring a Senior Test Automation Engineer who is passionate about delivering value and being involved in transformative initiatives. This role will play a key part in modernizing our legacy mortgage application system through the integration of a third-party vendor solution with our core banking system. Ideal candidates will thrive in a dynamic environment, embrace challenges, and be committed to continuous improvement.

Position Responsibilities:

Identify, build tests strategies, plans, cases and scripts that ensure quality and coverage through functional, integration, end to end and performance testing of complex systems and/or individual components

Create, maintain, evolve and continually improve automated test scripts and coverage using a variety of automation tools and technologies

Execute manual tests that could not be automated

Adhere to Quality Engineer standards and best practices as well as audit requirements

Analyze defects and ensure that system tests are successfully completed, documented and all issues are resolved

Participate in code reviews, share skills and techniques with others

Help develop and champion test automation as a practice within your team

Collaborate with Software Engineers, Quality Engineers, Analysts, Business partners and external 3rd party vendors

Mentoring/coaching team members on automation

Required Qualifications:

1. At least 10 years experience with 5+ years of automated testing experience on the following: Experience with Automation technologies such as Katalon, Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, Maven, Perfecto, Jenkins, Cucumber, JMeter, Postman, Bruno and other testing frameworks and tools

2. Proven ability and Experience with Object Oriented Programming Language such as Java, JavaScript .NET, Node.js/React, Python

3. 5+ years of experience developing/coding and executing test automation scripts for distributed web solutions including UI and microservices/API

4. Sound knowledge of quality assurance practices, automation, tools and techniques and how to apply them

5. Experience writing complex test plans and test cases including how to apply risk based testing principles

6. Ability to identify productivity and efficiency improvements as well as quickly and easily adapt to change

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication including effective facilitation, presentation skills, and interpersonal skills

• Strong planning, organization, risk management and problem solving skills

• Strong collaborator

Education: University degree in Computer Sciences/Engineering or equivalent