Our client, a major Canadian financial institution with a national presence and global reputation, is looking to hire a few experienced Senior Quality Engineer Leads to join their technology team. In this role, you'll lead quality assurance initiatives, drive test automation excellence, and ensure their digital banking solutions meet the highest standards of reliability and security.
Term: 1-Year Contract
Location: Toronto, ON / London, ON / Montreal QC (hybrid)
NOTE: Please apply with your Word version resume
What You'll Do

• Serve as a Test Lead for complexity initiatives, accountable for implementing effective test strategies and plans, test design / development test case automation and test execution to achieve business outcomes.
  
• Provides QE leadership, direction and feedback throughout the development and design process; provides test development / automation support to ensure that the quality of the intended solution is met.
  
• Leverage strong knowledge to understand technical solutions to build optimized test approaches, inclusive of the tooling strategy
  
• Strong knowledge of test data management to reuse automated test data provisioning capabilities
  
• Effectively engineer and leverage tools and Engineering practices (DevOps tools and processes, source code management, Service Virtualization, monitoring tools, etc.)
  
• Implement functional and/or non-functional automation frameworks (performance, readiness / reliability testing (ORT), accessibility, security) including script development and execution, and ensure automated tests are integrated into the Continuous Integration (CI), delivery, and testing (CI/CD/CT) pipelines
  
• Play a key role in developing, documenting, and proactively identifying end-to-end test solution designs and early automation opportunities
  
• Work collaboratively with the development team to define and validate user stories, acceptance criteria and Definition of Done (DoD) / Ready (DoR)
  
• Apply the principles of behavior /Test Driven Development (BDD / TDD) and focus on value driven outcomes
  
• Leads Proof of Concepts (POCs) to evaluate new technologies geared towards better, faster, more secure testing activities (such as Service Virtualization, DevOps, BDD, Test Data Management)
  

RequirementsWhat You Bring
Core Tools & Technologies:

• Test Management: Jira (6+ years), X-ray (6+ years)
  
• Automation: Selenium, Cucumber, Rest Assured, Postman (6+ years each)
  
• Programming: Java (6+ years)
  
• Testing: Database Testing (6+ years), Accessibility (JAWS: 2+ years), JMeter (optional), TOSCA (optional)
  

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  
• 6+ years in a QA/QE role with increasing responsibility.
  
• Strong understanding of test automation frameworks and tools.
  
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
  
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., finance, healthcare).
  
• ISTQB or similar QA certification.
  
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and service virtualization.
  

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