Job ID: HYC2026010 Contract Remote within Canada (Occasional travel to Edmonton, Alberta if required)

About the Role

We are seeking experienced QA Automation Engineers to support large-scale digital transformation, service innovation, and modernization initiatives within a public sector environment. The QA Automation Engineer will work closely with cross-functional agile product teams to ensure high-quality delivery of modern digital services through automation, testing strategy, and quality engineering best practices.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and automation test suites

- Create automation test plans, test cases, and test scenarios for digital applications and services

- Implement end-to-end, regression, functional, API, load, performance, and security testing strategies

- Develop reusable automation components and support automation scalability across projects

- Support Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) practices

- Collaborate with developers, product owners, business analysts, and QA teams in agile sprint-based delivery environments

- Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, testing cycles, and release activities

- Ensure continuous quality validation throughout the software development lifecycle

- Build and maintain automation scripts integrated with CI/CD pipelines

- Support automated reporting, test metrics collection, and quality dashboards

- Contribute to automation standards, reusable frameworks, and testing best practices

- Perform API testing and validation for integrated digital services

- Design and execute load testing, performance testing, and security testing scenarios

- Identify defects, analyze root causes, and collaborate with development teams for resolution

- Prepare and maintain automation documentation,



test artifacts, reports, and testing metrics

- Support quality governance, defect tracking, and testing standards across projects

Requirements

- QualificationBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field. Equivalent experience may be considered.

- Experience4+ Years

Required Skills

- 4+ years experience creating and modifying automation test scripts

- 3+ years experience preparing automation test plans and automation testing strategies

- 3+ years experience working with automation testing frameworks

- 2+ years experience with GitHub or version control tools

- 3+ years experience with performance testing, load testing, security testing, or end-to-end testing

- 2+ years hands-on coding experience developing automation scripts

- Strong experience with QA automation tools and frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)

- Experience developing and executing automated test suites

- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

- Robust debugging and analytical skills

- Familiarity with CI/CD-integrated testing practices

- Experience with API testing tools and frameworks (Nice to Have)

- Experience with Cypress (Nice to Have)

- Experience with Cucumber and/or Gherkin (Nice to Have)

- Experience with Jira Xray (Nice to Have)

- Experience establishing automation testing metrics and reporting dashboards (Nice to Have)

- Experience implementing QA automation standards and best practices (Nice to Have)

- Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for large enterprise applications (Nice to Have)

- Public sector or large enterprise digital transformation experience (Nice to Have)

Application Requirements

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📌 QA Automation Engineer (Edmonton)
🏢 Hyniva
📍 Edmonton