Senior QA Automation Engineer

Position Details:



Role: Senior QA Automation Engineer
Location: Toronto, Canada (Hybrid)
Experience: 8+
NOTE: 4 DAYS IN THE OFFICE ARE MANDATORY!

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 growth
• Maintain 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 preferred
• Experience testing event-driven or message-queue-based systems (e.g., SQS, Kafka) is an asset
• Understanding of trade lifecycle and order management systems is a plus