Senior QA Automation Engineer

About the Position

Senior QA Automation Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior QA Automation Engineer to join our team in Toronto, Canada. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining automated test frameworks and scripts to improve efficiency and test coverage. You will work in an Agile environment, collaborating with business and T&D partner teams.

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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 insights gained via analysis.
• Define and execute test plans, test cases/scripts, identify defects, analyze test results, and partner with developers to ensure 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.

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Requirements

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.

Nice to Have

• AWS cloud testing experience.
• Performance and load testing exposure.

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We Offer

• Opportunity to join 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.
• Motivated every day by important social purpose and unshakable principles.
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership, and High Performance.

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About the Company

Applying to the position, you may join one of the most respected and fastest-growing institutional investors in the world. Our client is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds to ensure long-term sustainability. The company invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed-income instruments.

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Application

Location: Toronto, Canada

Req. ID: VR-123025

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