QA Automation Engineer

Job Title: QA Automation Engineer City: Toronto State/Province: Ontario Posting Start Date: 11/9/26 Job Description: Key responsibilities will be to • Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites for web, API, and backend services. • Build automated regression, integration, end-to-end, and performance test coverage for new and existing capabilities. • Partner with product owners, developers, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and define acceptance criteria. • Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery and shift-left quality practices. • Validate functionality across investment product workflows, including onboarding, transaction processing, lifecycle events, reporting, and digital document workflows. • Perform root cause analysis for defects and collaborate with engineering teams to drive resolution. • Develop and maintain test data strategies and environments to support automated testing. • Monitor and improve quality metrics, test execution efficiency, and release readiness. • Support production validation, troubleshooting, and post-release verification activities. • Advocate for quality engineering best practices, test automation standards, and continuous improvement initiatives. QA automation & technical skills • Strong hands-on experience designing and maintaining QA automation frameworks using Java or another object-oriented programming language. • Experience testing Spring Boot services, REST APIs, microservices, integrations, and data flows, including positive, negative, boundary, and error-handling scenarios. • Hands-on experience with API automation tools such as REST Assured and Postman/Newman, and UI automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent. • Experience with automated testing in CI/CD pipelines using source control, build tools, test reporting, and quality gates. • Working knowledge of SQL and backend data validation, test-data management, service virtualization or mocking, and environment troubleshooting. • Experience planning and executing regression testing for application rewrites, Spring Boot changes, operating-system or virtual-machine upgrades, and production-like environments. Qualifications • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. • 5+ years of hands-on software quality engineering or test automation experience in large-scale or complex environments. • Demonstrated experience delivering automation for API, UI, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing. Nice to have • Experience with cloud-native applications and containerized environments. • Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies. • Knowledge of financial services, wealth management, trading, or investment products. • Familiarity with performance, security, and accessibility testing practices. • Experience implementing quality engineering strategies within highly regulated environments. Mandatory Skills: Test Automation. Experience: 5-8 Years. The expected compensation for this role ranges from CAD 77000 to CAD 120000 .