Automation Test Lead

Position Title: Automation Test Lead
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Estimated Duration: 3 months

Story Behind the Need
Business group: Canadian Digital Banking Engineering – – Provide microservices to mobile and web; deal with day-to-day payments, EMTs, bill payments, wallet provisioning

Project: Enhancement of the backend for money movement services initiative – SQL migration to Mongo DB
Candidate Value Proposition:
Not only will this candidate gain experience at a Big 5 bank, but they will also work daily with some of the most disruptive and emerging technologies, making a real impact at the bank and its deliverables. The ideal candidate will be part of a collaborative software engineering team working on Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, NoSQL, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes
Typical Day in Role:

• Collaborate closely with a team of backend API developers, business system analysts, developers, and architects to work on both new features and incremental improvements
• Develop and update automated test scenarios
• Bring new ideas on how to improve the test framework
• Create robust, repeatable automated testing solutions for our production software
• Develop both positive and negative test scenarios while working with business system analysts, developers, and technical leads to test new features
• Help triage any issues automated tests uncover or any issue raised by production support, and communicating closely with the development team
• Work on a large-scale product and enriching the banking experience for millions of customers.
• Develop automated testing, including tools and frameworks.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 5+ years of experience as an Automation API Tester, preferably within FI/banking
• 5+ years of experience directly writing automation code in Java without any testing tools (e.g. SOAP UI)
• 5+ years’ experience in developing Integration Tests using testing frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, and RestAssured

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• MongoDB experience
• 3+ years of testing RESTful APIs with Postman
• 3+ years of experience in Load Testing (preferably with Locust and LoadRunner)
• Experience in building, integrating and deploying web services (REST/ SOAP/JSON/XML)
• Working knowledge of SQL
• Familiarity with OpenAPI Specification (OAS)/ Swagger, YAML, JSON

Soft Skills Required:

• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills are essential
• Ability to distil technical details into simple terms; ability to influence decision-making across stakeholders

Education:

• Bachelors or equivalent in computer science or related field is preferred

Best VS. Average Candidate:
Ideal candidate needs to be very strong in Java, strong in automation testing The best candidate will have experience with MongoDB and SQL database.