Job Title: Automation Lead with Banking Experience

Location: Toronto, ON Hybrid

Duration: Long Term Contract

Role Overview

- The Automation Lead will lead the design, implementation, and evolution of scalable test automation solutions across UI, API, and mobile platforms.
- This role partners closely with engineering and quality leadership to embed quality early in the development lifecycle, drive automation strategy, and elevate overall quality engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities Automation Architecture & Strategy

- Design and implement scalable automation frameworks and reusable test components across UI, API, and mobile platforms.
- Create, maintain, and optimize CI/CD-integrated automated test pipelines and tooling for continuous feedback.
- Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews, contributing from a testability and quality perspective.
- Own and drive non-functional testing initiatives such as integration testing and contribute to performance and resiliency testing as required.

Quality Engineering & Planning

- Lead quality planning efforts for complex features and integrations, ensuring risk-based test coverage.
- Partner with Lead QE to define test scope, provide effort estimates, and contribute to risk assessments.
- Collaborate with development teams to embed quality early using test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD) practices.
- Act as the primary point of contact for defect triage, root cause analysis, and data-driven quality reporting.
- Escalate quality risks and issues to the QE Manager with appropriate context and recommended solutions.

Continuous Improvement & Governance

- Drive continuous improvements in quality engineering practices, automation tooling, standards, and documentation.
- Develop and maintain quality metrics,



reporting on test coverage, defect trends, and automation effectiveness.
- Contribute to the configuration, maintenance, and stability of test environments and test data sets.

Mentorship & Collaboration

- Mentor and support junior QEs by reviewing test cases, automation code, and providing constructive feedback.
- Support UAT activities by coordinating testing efforts, reproducing issues, and ensuring end-to-end test traceability.

Qualifications & Skill Set Required Experience & Education

- 10+ years of experience in Software Quality Engineering or Test Automation roles.
- 8+ years of experience in UI and API automation using tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber (BDD), Postman, and JavaScript/Java-based frameworks.
- University Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.

Technical Skills

- Solid hands-on experience in microservices testing and test strategies involving service contracts, API gateways, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with mobile testing frameworks such as Appium and test automation for iOS and Android .
- Strong programming skills in Java and/or JavaScript, with the ability to build and debug automation solutions from scratch .
- Deep understanding of Agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, and DevOps tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub).
- Working knowledge of service virtualization tools ( eg: Parasoft, SmartBear, IBM Rational Tester ) and log analysis platforms ( eg: Kibana, Splunk ).
- Proficient in writing SQL queries and validating back-end database transactions.
- Comfort working across Agile delivery models, with robust awareness of shift-left testing and in-sprint quality practices.
- Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr, TestRail, Xray, and test management best practices.

📌 Automation Lead with Banking Experience (Toronto)
🏢 Burgeon IT Services
📍 Toronto