Senior Test Engineer, APIIntegration Specialist
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2 days ago
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The Opportunity
PLATO is Canadas only Indigenous-led Indigenous staffed software testing services firm. We insist on working with quality people who share our passion for quality testing and have built a team of people who also believe quality is the most important deliverable. Our team of software testing specialists believes that better software leads to a better world.
We are committed to building strong communities - PLATO trains and employs members of First Nations Metis and Inuit communities across the country and strives to build a network of 1000 Indigenous software testers across Canada. PLATO has offices on or near Indigenous communities across Canada in Fredericton Sault Ste Marie Ottawa/Gatineau Regina Prince Albert Calgary and Vancouver.
We are looking for Senior Test Engineer providing immediate technical relief and capability building for a government software company scaling across multiple provincial implementations. Youll tackle critical backend testing gaps while upskilling a junior team and partnering with an external automation vendor to establish sustainable testing practices.
What youll do
Responsibilities
- Design and implement API contract testing for Ruby on Rails application with PostgreSQL backend
- Build mock services and test harnesses for system integrations
- Provide hands-on testing support for critical client deployment milestones
- Work alongside intermediate and junior QA team members to relieve backlog pressure
- Establish integration testing infrastructure the current team can maintain
- Transfer knowledge and upskill junior testers in API testing practices
- Partner with external automation vendor to ensure technical foundation supports their work
- Document testing approaches for repeatability across other products
What Success Looks Like
- Deployment milestones hit on schedule with confidence
- Current QA team reports meaningful workload relief and demonstrates new API testing capabilities
- Mock services deployed for critical integrations enabling independent testing
- Automation partner integration happens smoothly with clear technical handoffs
- Test infrastructure is documented and maintainable beyond your engagement
What youll need
Qualifications
- 7 years software testing with deep API/integration expertise
- Strong hands-on experience: REST API contract testing service virtualization/mocking integration test frameworks
- Technical proficiency: Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL Azure cloud infrastructure
- Experience designing and implementing test infrastructure not just writing tests
- Government software or regulated industry testing experience
- Comfortable mentoring junior testers while delivering hands-on work
- Track record working effectively alongside external automation consultants
- Can translate technical testing concepts for non-technical stakeholders
Working Structure
Youll work as part of a two-person consulting team alongside a Quality Transformation Lead who handles organizational process improvement and leadership communication. Your focus is technical execution and capability building. This structure allows you to do deep technical work without the organizational strategy and change management responsibilities.
Ideal Candidate
Youre a senior technical specialist who gets energy from solving hard technical problems and seeing others grow. Youre comfortable being the technical expert on a team while someone else handles strategic conversations with leadership. Youve worked on high-stakes projects where integration failures have real consequences and you know how to build testing infrastructure that outlasts your engagement.
Were looking for
Core Skills
A little bit about us
PLATO
Who We Are
PLATO is a software testing and technology services company trusted by clients around the world.
In addition to providing our clients the highest quality software testing services PLATO is creating careers in technology for First Nations Inuit and Métis people from coast to coast to coast through our innovative train-and-employ model. Since 1997 we have been helping organizations all over the world reach their quality objectives by delivering scalable proven quality-centric managed services. Companies such as Apple Suncor TD Bank Medavie BCLC LinkedIn Boeing and many others have gained considerable advantage from our Quality Assurance (QA) Testing and eLearning expertise and experience.
We deliver specialized QA services to our clients with the goal of helping them increase profitability boost customer satisfaction manage development cycles and implement quality-centric solutions. We develop innovative approaches and solutions designed to generate increased efficiencies competitive advantage and market share for our clients.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- APIs
- Jenkins
- REST
- Python
- SOAP
- Systems Engineering
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Java
- XML
- JSON
- Scripting
- Sftp
About Company
Our team of software testing specialists believe that better software leads to a better world. PLATO can help you get there.
