Job Title: Automation Lead with Banking Experience
Location: Toronto, ON Hybrid
Duration: Long Term Contract
Role Overview
- The Automation Lead will lead the design, implementation, and evolution of scalable test automation solutions across UI, API, and mobile platforms.
- This role partners closely with engineering and quality leadership to embed quality early in the development lifecycle, drive automation strategy, and elevate overall quality engineering practices.
Key Responsibilities
Automation Architecture & Strategy
- Design and implement scalable automation frameworks and reusable test components across UI, API, and mobile platforms.
- Create, maintain, and optimize CI/CD-integrated automated test pipelines and tooling for continuous feedback.
- Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews, contributing from a testability and quality perspective.
- Own and drive non-functional testing initiatives such as integration testing and contribute to performance and resiliency testing as required.
Quality Engineering & Planning
- Lead quality planning efforts for complex features and integrations, ensuring risk-based test coverage.
- Partner with Lead QE to define test scope, provide effort estimates, and contribute to risk assessments.
- Collaborate with development teams to embed quality early using test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD) practices.
- Act as the primary point of contact for defect triage, root cause analysis, and data-driven quality reporting.
- Escalate quality risks and issues to the QE Manager with appropriate context and recommended solutions.
Continuous Improvement & Governance
- Drive continuous improvements in quality engineering practices, automation tooling, standards, and documentation.
- Develop and maintain quality metrics, reporting on test coverage, defect trends, and automation effectiveness.
- Contribute to the configuration, maintenance, and stability of test environments and test data sets.
Mentorship & Collaboration
- Mentor and support junior QEs by reviewing test cases, automation code, and providing constructive feedback.
- Support UAT activities by coordinating testing efforts, reproducing issues, and ensuring end-to-end test traceability.
Qualifications & Skill Set
Required Experience & Education
- 10+ years of experience in Software Quality Engineering or Test Automation roles.
- 8+ years of experience in UI and API automation using tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber (BDD), Postman, and JavaScript/Java-based frameworks.
- University Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
Technical Skills
- Solid hands-on experience in microservices testing and test strategies involving service contracts, API gateways, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with mobile testing frameworks such as Appium and test automation for iOS and Android.
- Strong programming skills in Java and/or JavaScript, with the ability to build and debug automation solutions from scratch.
- Deep understanding of Agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, and DevOps tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub).
- Working knowledge of service virtualization tools (eg: Parasoft, SmartBear, IBM Rational Tester) and log analysis platforms (eg: Kibana, Splunk).
- Proficient in writing SQL queries and validating back-end database transactions.
- Comfort working across Agile delivery models, with strong awareness of shift-left testing and in-sprint quality practices.
- Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr, TestRail, Xray, and test management best practices.