Position: Senior QA Automation Engineer

Location: Toronto, ON (4 days onsite/per week)

Start date: ASAP

Emp Type: Contract

Responsibilities

- Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts independently to improve efficiency and test coverage, working in an Agile environment with business and T&D; partner teams.

- Drive a shift-left approach to software validation, guiding teams to apply automation themselves rather than relying solely on QA/QE.

- Participate in product design and development to ensure quality is built in from the start.

- Monitor the effectiveness of test automation and drive improvements through analysis at various stages to ensure stability, efficiency, and scalability.

- Define and execute test plans and test cases/scripts, identify defects, analyze test results, and partner with developers to ensure products meet quality standards.

- Apply advanced engineering best practices and drive continuous improvement through coaching and influence.

- Adhere to Agile SDLC processes and perform related duties as required.

- Foster collaboration and mentorship, promoting a culture of feedback, learning, and skilled growth.





- Maintain strong relationships with business partners, peer IT teams, and vendor partners.

Core Skills

Skills - Must Have

- 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 an 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.

📌 Senior Automation Engineer - Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
🏢 Pozent
📍 Toronto