Automation Test Lead

Position Title: Automation Test Lead
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Estimated Duration: 8.5 months

Story Behind the Need
Business group: Client Engineering – Commerce Engineering – supports content delivery platforms and services; works on public site, product onboarding
Project: Instant Banking Access – part of product onboarding domain, details of project are confidential, will be shared once they join, it is related to product onboarding (how new and existing customers can onboard products digitally)
Contributes to the overall success of Commerce Engineering in Canada ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain valuable experience at a top 5 Canadian bank, and the opportunity to work with cross functional teams. The candidate will be working hands on with some of the latest banking technologies and forward thinking in fast paced environment.

Typical Day in Role:

• Be an advocate for quality in the project lifecycle.
• Write moderate to complex code/ scripts to test systems.
• Design, develop and maintain a modular, extensible, and reusable test automation framework to enable continuous testing in an agile environment.
• Collaborate closely with other team members to develop test approach that effectively covers the functional performance characteristics of features in the applications.
• Collaborate with Delivery Lead to plan milestones, successfully execute software delivery, and escalate issues as needed.
• Report defects and work closely with the team so that solutions can be determined, prioritized, and scheduled.
• Prioritize testing of projects effectively across various businesses, to drive efficient work.
• Conduct root cause analysis of post-production issues and plan to prevent them in future.
• Have in-depth and up-to-date understanding of the organization’s products, applications, systems, environments, processes and tools.
• Introduce and influence overall process improvements and act as an agent for change to the organization.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 5+ years of demonstrated hands-on and in-depth Test Automation experience
• testing on both web and mobile applications
• 5+ years of Test Automation experience with Java or JavaScript
• 5+ years of Test Automation experience with frameworks, and utilities (e.g. Selenium WebDriver or WebDriverIO)
• 2+ years’ recent experience with API testing

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Experience within an FI
• Behaviour driven development (BDD) using Cucumber

Soft Skills Required:

• Excellent communication skills with ability to influence decision making across stakeholders
• Effective organization, planning, and time management skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Able to work as part of a team and encourage both individual and collaborative innovation
• Positive and resilient personality – Able to embrace feedback and have a desire for continuous iteration and improvement

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field preferred

Best VS. Average Candidate:
Ideal candidate has strong communication skills as they will be interacting with cross functional teams from product to delivery teams so they can articulate issues before going to production, web and mobile experience vs. just SAP product experience, they need interaction with web applications, preferably within FI but could also be e-commerce platforms etc; BDD experience with Cucumber is an asset