Job Description

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Description
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Intermediate Automation Developer to join our dynamic team at our Toronto office. This contract position is an excellent opportunity for individuals looking to advance their careers in the fast-paced IT service industry. The Automation Developer will be responsible for creating and maintaining automation solutions that improve efficiency and quality across various development and operational processes.
Responsibilities:

• Identify opportunities for automation within software processes
• Designs and executes QA tests using scripts that automatically test functionality.
• Designs and write test automation scripts
• Utilizes test automation frameworks
• Investigates problems in software as a result of testing
• Works with QA analysts and software developers to find solutions

General Skills:

• Experience identifying opportunities for automation within software processes.
• Experience designing and executing QA tests using scripts that automatically test functionality
• Experience running tests for databases, systems, networks, applications, hardware and software
• Experience identifying and documenting bugs and quality issues in development, service or business processes.
• Experience installing applications and databases relevant to automation
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders to understand how automation can improve workflow and creating documentation
• Experience gathering and documenting requirements from end-users to develop the best automation solutions

A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Experience & Skill Set

• Solid experience with triaging defects, participating and leading triage meetings, and producing defect summary reports
• Hands-on experience with various defect tracking tools such as HP ALM, DevOps
• Experience creating test cases and test scenarios in HP ALM or DevOps
• 2+ years developing test cases
• 2+ years developing automation test scripts with multiple Tools
• Experience performing regression testing manually and with automation scripts
• Extensive experience performing functional and regression testing through manual testing and automation.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience Performing automation testing and developing test scripts
• Experience with Screen Readers, Syntax Checking tools, Colour-Contract tools, browser tools/toolbars.
• Extensive experience performing functional and regression testing through manual testing and automation.
• Experience testing solution developed with HTML 5, WAI-ARIA tags, UX and front-end development

Knowledge of Ontario Design Standards, and AODA Testing (15%)
Experience with User Experience Interface design and architecture.
QA experience: 45%

• 1+ years of experience with DevOps/Agile/Scrum Methodology working with Web and Mobile technologies, as well as different OS/Platforms
• 1+ years of experience with different automation and manual testing types: black box testing, AODA and UAT testing
• Experience drafting/following Test Strategy/Test Plan document
• 1+ years of hands-on experience with BRD: analyzing business requirements and creating test data requirements
• Extensive experience with preparing detailed test cases to test functionality
• Proven experience with identifying bugs in software; excellent ability to document and explain bugs/issues to Dev and business teams
• Solid experience with triaging defects, participating and leading triage meetings, and producing defect summary reports
• Hands on experience with various defect tracking tools such as HP ALM, DevOps
• Experience creating test cases and test scenarios in HP ALM, DevOps
• Experienced in Test Automation, preparing scripts/updating existing scripts, run the scrips and capture results
• 1+ years of hands-on experience with system testing, system integration testing
• Extensive experience in Quality Assurance preparing Test Plans, Test Cases and executing and monitoring unit, integration and UAT testing while working directly with clients
• Manual system testing and integration testing experience including creating test cases and test plans

Automation Testing/Technical experience: 35%

• Experience developing automation testing scripts
• Performing functional and regression testing with multiple automation tools
• Public sector Experience- 5%
• OPS Development standard/Process

Must Have:

• Solid experience with triaging defects, participating and leading triage meetings,
• and producing defect summary reports
• Hands on experience with various defect tracking tools such as HP ALM, DevOps
• Experience creating test cases and test scenarios in HP ALM or DevOps
• Solid experience with triaging defects, participating and leading triage meetings, and producing defect summary reports
• Hands on experience with various defect tracking tools such as HP ALM, DevOps
• Experience creating test cases and test scenarios in HP ALM or DevOps

Skills Required