Senior QA Test Automation Engineer to perform automation, performance and API/integration testing

1 year contract, possibilities of extensions. Hybrid in office 3 days/week, Vancouver candidates preferred.

Must Have:

• 7+ years (real time) work experience in testing software, of which 5+ years using UI automation, including building new frameworks, UI testing, database, batch, API, performance, and load testing.
• Significant experience in developing automation test strategies, test plans and road maps for test automation.
• Significant experience with test automation and performance tools such as Katalon Studio, Robot Framework, Selenium, Playwright and LoadRunner
• 5+ years’ experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Experience working with Azure DevOps or a similar tool to maintain tasks, manage backlogs, maintain test case repositories, etc.
• Comfort working with AI-assisted tools and non-traditional QA workflows
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and understanding requirements to prepare test strategies and plans, including test estimates.
• Creating test plans, test cases and test data.
• Automation scripting and testing (UI automation / Performance / API testing / CICD).
• Creating an automation framework for a complex project with heavy use of screens and API, using Selenium, Katalon Studio and Playwright.
• Reusing and combining IT and Business test scenarios and test cases.
• Reporting test results including defects / bugs, including steps to reproduce, screenshots, impact and severity and exposing in a QA Dashboard.
• UAT triage support, coordinating between the business areas.
• Investigation and root cause analysis of production incidents.
• QA feature lead on CMS initiatives.
• Working within an Agile/DevOps software development environment.
• Providing feedback to improve team performance.
• Mentoring QA team members.