Location : Vancouver, Canada / Remote

Must be available during Pacific Time Zone business hours (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST).

Long-term engagement with a leading financial institution.

Key Responsibilities

- Define and drive the overall QA automation strategy and roadmap.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reusable, and robust automation frameworks.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to QA automation engineers.
- Establish automation best practices, coding standards, and quality processes.
- Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and DevOps teams.
- Lead automation efforts across web, API, and integration testing.
- Evaluate and recommend modern automation tools, frameworks, and technologies.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and DevOps processes.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to automation standards.
- Analyze testing bottlenecks and continuously improve automation coverage and execution efficiency.
- Support test planning, estimation, and release activities.
- Drive quality engineering initiatives and shift-left testing practices.

Required Skills & ExperienceTechnical Skills
- 12+ years of overall experience in Software Quality Assurance and Test Automation.
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- Selenium WebDriver
- .NET / C#
- Playwright




- Test automation framework design and development
- Experience with API automation tools and frameworks.
- Robust understanding of test design patterns and automation architecture.
- Experience with BDD/TDD frameworks and practices.
- Experience with source control systems such as Git.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and quality engineering principles.
- Experience in financial services, banking, or credit union environments.

Preferred Skills
- Experience with performance and load testing tools.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure.
- Experience with AI-assisted testing and intelligent test automation solutions.
- Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Leadership Requirements
- Proven experience leading QA automation teams.
- Ability to define automation strategy at an enterprise level.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience mentoring and coaching team members.
- Ability to influence quality practices across development and business teams.

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