Senior Automation QA Engineer

Senior Automation QA Engineer

This is with a global IT services firm for a leading investment/wealth management services firm.
Client Location is downtown Toronto Ontario, close to TTC and GO service.
Hybrid – In Office 4 days per week.
Contract – 6 months, possible renewal
Target rate range $65-80hr B2B

Role Senior Automation QA Engineer

Project Description:
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.
Client attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:
• 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

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.

Mandatory Skills Description:
– 5+ years of relevant QA/Test experience.
– Robust Experience with scripting with SQL Python Pytest, Zephyr
– Experience with QE processes and methodologies, automated and manual test processes, test planning, test cases design, scripting, execution, automated test tools, regression testing.
– Experience writing clean, usable, and efficient code.
– Experience interacting and coordinating test activities amongst multiple teams and ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

NOTE
G.G. Consulting Group uses advanced ATS systems to track and manage candidates and jobs. We do not use AI tools for candidate screening.