Automation Test Lead

Position Title: Automation Test Lead
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Estimated Duration: 5 months

Story Behind the Need
Business group: Client Engineering – Microservices – team is responsible to work on microservices for mobile and web digital banking applications
Project: Instant Banking Access – it is related to product onboarding (how new and existing customers can onboard products digitally)

Candidate Value Proposition:
Not only will this candidate gain experience at a Big 5 bank, but they will be working daily with some of the most disruptive and emerging technologies, making real impact at the bank and its deliverables. The 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

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 6-7+ years’ overall automation testing experience
• 3+ years of experience in Java
• 3+ years of testing for RESTful microservices APIs on Postman
• 3+ years of experience in Load Testing (preferably with Locust and LoadRunner)
• 5+ years’ experience in developing Unit Tests and Integration Tests using testing frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, and RestAssured

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• 3+ years of experience testing Spring Boot applications
• Python Scripting
• Familiarity with OpenAPI Specification (OAS)/ Swagger, YAML, JSON
• Working knowledge of SQL, SOAPUI
• Experience working in a DevOps environment.
• Experience with Java Build Tools: Maven or Gradle5
• Automation Test Lead experience

Soft Skills Required:

• Excellent communication skills including ability to distil technical details into simple terms; ability to influence decision making across stakeholders
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple complex initiatives
• Natural Problem Solver
• Must be reliable, proactive, results-oriented, customer-focused and attentive to details.
• Must be flexible to adapt to a dynamic environment, make quick and sound decisions under pressure
• Strong organizational skills, excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills

Education:

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

Best VS. Average Candidate:
Ideal candidate has all the must have requirements and 2/3 nice to haves; someone who has can take initiative, wouldn’t be waiting for instructions to proceed; a contributor self-starter type. Not only manual testing, strong need for expertise in automation.