Senior QA Automation Engineer

Job Title: Senior QA Automation Engineer

Location: Toronto ON (ONSITE 4 DAYS A WEEK)

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JOB DESCRIPTION :

Responsibilities Design, build and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts with independence improving efficiency and test coverage to enable business capabilities, working in an Agile environment that includes business and T&D partner teams.

Drive a shift-left approach to software validation, guiding the team to apply automation themselves vs handing to "QA/QE" to automate

Participate in product design and development to ensure that quality is built in from the beginning.

Monitor the effectiveness of test automation and drive improvements through insights gained via analysis at various stages of test automation to ensure stability, efficiency, and scalability.

Define and execute test plans, test cases/scripts, identify defects, analyze test results and partner with developers to ensure that products or services meet quality standards.

Apply advanced understanding of engineering best practices and drive continuous improvement across the team through coaching and influencing

Adhere to Agile SDLC and execute related duties as required.

Foster collaboration and mentorship promoting a culture of feedback, learning and professional growthMaintain strong relationships with business partners, peer IT teams and vendor partners.

Skills

Must have Core Skills: Proven experience in software quality engineering, including functional, regression, and integration testing

Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Pytest, or similar)

Solid understanding of API testing (REST) and ability to write and maintain automated test suites

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into build/release workflows

Proficiency in Python or equivalent scripting language for test development

SQL proficiency for data validation, test data setup, and backend verification

Domain Experience:Familiarity with financial services or trading platforms is strongly preferredExperience testing event-driven or message-queue-based systems (e.g., SQS, Kafka) is an assetUnderstanding of trade lifecycle and order management systems is a plusNice to haveAWS cloud testing experiencePerformance and load testing exposure

Pay: $55.00-$64.00 per hour

Work Location: In person