Automation Test Lead

Toronto, ON, Canada

Job Description

Story Behind the Need:

  • Business group: Client Engineering - Commerce Engineering - supports content delivery platforms and services; works on client's 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
Candidate Review & Selection:
  • Codility Test prior to interviews - 40 minutes; 2 questions- please ensure they are NOT copying in responses from elsewhere even internally from the control panel or IDE as this will be flagged as fraud, should put in answer DIRECTLY into coding platform , the system tracks what the actions are and records step by step (think of it as screen recording) and will play that back, if the solution also is similar to something on the internet this will flag - not copying from their notes or Google as this will flag as fraudulent and won't be proceeding - as long as solution is unique and original and isn't copied (so doesn't need to be 100% - importance is NOT copying form anywhere)
  • What to expect: the Codility tests are based on data structures and algorithms - it is language agnostic so they can choose the language they want to code in.
  • Please ensure they try to attempt BOTH questions and spend equal time on both, not just 1 - so e.g. they can allot 20 mins for each
  • 1st Interview - 1-hour technical panel video interview with team, follow-up questions from test and other live coding assignments
  • Candidates should have MS Teams set up ahead of time, and ready to be on video and share their screen for the live assignments.
  • Final Interview - 45 minutes with HM - more behavioural
Additional Notes:
  • Please ensure to vet candidates prior to submitting them as the manager has had negative experiences with fraudulent candidates multiple times. They won't be doing in person interviews but please take extra care to vet them as best you can here.
Job Details
13479
Contract
8.5 months
Toronto
61.00 CAD
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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD2907720
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Education
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