Test Automation, Senior Specialist

Interac Corp.

$90K — $105K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years in software development with a focus on automation testing
  • Experience with creating and optimizing automation frameworks
  • Proficient in NUnit or JUnit
  • Strong knowledge of C# and JavaScript
  • Experience in API testing using tools like Postman
  • Familiar with CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

  • Lead automation testing for Interac's Money Movement products
  • Design and document Integration Automation Framework and best practices
  • Evaluate and recommend changes to automation scripts
  • Enhance automation strategy for microservices and end-to-end user flows
  • Define and monitor automation metrics for efficiency
  • Develop non-functional tests for service interactions
  • Conduct reviews of functional and design specifications to ensure comprehensive test coverage

Benefits

  • Generous vacation and wellness days
  • Comprehensive employer-paid benefits coverage
  • Market-leading employer-funded RRSP program
  • Flexible hybrid work model
  • Access to a 24/7 employee & family assistance program
  • Pregnancy and parental leave top-up
  • Charitable donation matching
Full Job Description
Who You Will Work With:

The Test Automation, Senior Specialist role will report to the Leader, Product Foundation, Money Movement. The Test Automation, Senior Specialist leads advanced automation testing for Interac's products and services, with a strong focus on online and integration-heavy solutions. This role designs and evolves integration automation frameworks and best practices to maximize test coverage while minimizing execution time and maintenance effort. The Senior Specialist enhances automation strategies to support microservices-based architectures, end-to-end user flows, and database integrations, and develops non-functional automation tests to validate service interactions, timeouts, and retries. Through definition of automation metrics and continuous evaluation of scripts, the role drives efficiency, quality, and scalability of automation across releases.

What You Will Do:
  • Perform the automation testing functions & support for Interac Corp. products and services, with a focus on the Money Movement product.
  • Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of what we build and how to test it.
  • Design and document the Integration Automation Framework / document Integration Automation best practices with the goal of maximizing of test coverage and minimizing test cycles time via automation but reducing automation maintenance efforts/costs.
  • Evaluate all scripts and recommending changes as per the requirements.
  • Enhance the automation test strategy to incorporate microservices automation test strategy where it is relevant regarding Integration and end to end user process flow including all services dependencies and DB integration.
  • Define automation metrics and the process for collecting and validating these metrics, monitor efficiency of the automation activities of the Integration team.
  • Develop NFR automation tests targeting interactions between different services and components, timeouts, retries should be design per releases as and when needed


What You Bring:
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience.
  • 5+ years direct experience in software development with strong, hands-on experience in software automation testing, test case development, test execution, test results analysis, and test optimization.
  • Experience in the creation, maintenance and optimization of automation frameworks including management of test reporting.
  • Demonstrated experience in NUnit or JUnit.
  • Experience working within a formal CI/CD pipeline.
  • Strong knowledge of C#, JavaScript.
  • Knowledge of Selenium WebDriver.
  • API testing using POST man or similar.
  • Knowledge with web applications architecture, APIs, SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Experience with load testing using JMeter or similar.
  • Knowledge and experience with Git/Stash
  • Knowledge and experience with Jenkins, Bamboo
  • Knowledge and experience of micro-services architecture regarding integration and functional automation tests
  • Agile team and methodology experience; Kanban experience is desirable
  • Eligibility to work for Interac Corp. in Canada in a full-time capacity.


What We're Offering:

The hiring range for this position is $90,000.00 - $105,000.00, and you will also be eligible for our short-term incentive plan. The exact amount will depend on factors such as skills, experience, and job-related knowledge, but Interac's commitment goes beyond compensation. Our Total Rewards package is designed to support your well-being and future, and includes:
  • Generous vacation and wellness days to help you recharge
  • Comprehensive employer-paid benefits coverage for peace of mind
  • Market-leading employer-funded RRSP program to invest in your future
  • Flexible hybrid work model for better work-life balance
  • Access to a free and confidential 24/7 employee & family assistance program to offer support for you and your immediate family
  • Pregnancy and parental leave top-up to support growing families
  • Charitable donation matching with United Way to amplify your impact


Additional Pre-Employment Requirements:

To ensure the integrity of our organization, successful candidates will be required to complete background checks, which may include, Canadian Criminal Credit Check, Canadian ID Cross-Check, Public Safety Verification, 5-year Employment Verification, Education Verification, Credit Check, and Social Media Check.

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