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Senior QA Automation Engineer


Job Location:

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 4 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 1 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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.
Core Skills:
  • 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 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