Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
We are seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer with experience in test automation frameworks, API testing, and CI/CD pipelines to join our team in Toronto, Canada. If you have a passion for quality assurance and enjoy working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts to improve efficiency and test coverage.
- Drive a shift-left approach to software validation, guiding the team to apply automation themselves.
- Participate in product design and development to ensure quality is built in from the beginning.
- Monitor the effectiveness of test automation and drive improvements through analysis.
- Define and execute test plans, test cases/scripts, identify defects, and analyze test results.
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
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.
Nice to Have
- AWS cloud testing experience.
- Performance and load testing exposure.
We Offer
- Opportunity to work with one of the most respected and fastest-growing institutional investors in the world.
- Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders.
- Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment.
- Accelerated exposure and responsibility.
- Global career development opportunities.
- Being motivated every day by important social purpose and unshakable principles.
- A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership, and High Performance.
About the Company
Join our team and look forward to a stimulating work environment where quality is built in from the beginning. We value collaboration, mentorship, and continuous improvement, and we are committed to providing our employees with opportunities for professional growth and development.
Apply Now
If you are a Senior QA Automation Engineer with the required skills and experience, we would love to hear from you. Apply today and take the next step in your career with us!