Job Description

NOTE: HYBRID work model, 2-days/week in office. Office located in Toronto, Ontario.
Type: 6 Month Contract, 7.5 hours/day, 37.5 hours/week with a strong possibility of extension
Work Experience: 8+ years as Senior QA API Automation Engineer, API, API Security Testing, Parasoft SOAtest, Parasoft Virtualize, Playwright, Cypress, RestAssured, Postman/Newman, Karate, AI/LLM test cases, JSON, Jenkins, GitHub, Azure DevOps, WireMock, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C#, microservices, JMeter, Gatling, k6, Docker, Kubernetes, Agile
Industry: Bank
DESCRIPTION:
Seeking an outstanding Senior QA API Automation Engineer to lead the architecture, strategy, and execution of API automation across our digital platforms, including AI- and LLM-powered services. This is a senior technical expert role focused on driving quality engineering excellence, building modern automation frameworks, and elevating test maturity through innovation and best practices, leveraging enterprise-grade Parasoft tooling.
Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end API automation strategy and framework architecture across microservices and distributed systems.
• Build advanced API automation using Playwright (API), Cypress (API), RestAssured,Postman/Newman, and Karate.
• Design and automate AI/LLM test use cases to validate response quality, correctness, consistency, determinism, and safety.
• Build API-level automated tests for LLM prompt handling, structured outputs (JSON), error scenarios, and edge cases.
• Implement contract testing, schema validation, negative testing, and API security testing.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) and drive shift-left quality practices.
• Use service virtualization and mocking tools (Parasoft, WireMock) to stabilize environments and accelerate delivery.
• Improve automation stability, reduce flakiness, and define quality KPIs and reporting metrics.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code reviews across automation initiatives.

Hands-On Parasoft Experience

• Hands-on expertise with Parasoft SOAtest and Parasoft Virtualize to design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade API automation frameworks.
• Implement service virtualization to simulate complex backend systems, third-party services, and AI dependencies, enabling early and stable testing.
• Design and enforce API contracts, schema validation, and data-driven tests using Parasoft.
• Integrate Parasoft test suites into CI/CD pipelines and leverage dashboards to track coverage, execution health, and quality KPIs.
• Collaborate with security, architecture, and DevOps teams to align Parasoft usage with enterprise governance standards.
• Provide best-practice guidance and technical leadership on scalable Parasoft adoption.

Required Qualifications

• 8-12 years of QA and automation experience, including 4-6 years in a senior or staff-level role.
• Deep expertise with API automation frameworks and strategies.
• Strong programming skills in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or C#.
• Hands-on expertise with Playwright, Cypress, RestAssured, Karate, and Postman/Newman.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, microservices, Git, cloud platforms, and containerization.
• Proven hands-on experience with Parasoft SOAtest and Parasoft Virtualize.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing AI- and LLM-powered APIs and validating response quality and correctness.
• Familiarity with AI quality risks such as hallucinations, non-deterministic outputs, bias, and response drift.
• Experience validating structured AI outputs (JSON, schemas, contracts).
• Contract testing (Pact) and performance testing (JMeter, Gatling, k6).
• API security testing and advanced service virtualization experience.
• Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership experience.

Key Skills
Playwright (API), Cypress (API), RestAssured, Postman, Karate, Parasoft SOAtest / Parasoft Virtualize,
AI/LLM API Testing, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS / Azure / GCP
Tagged as: agile, api, Azure DevOps, Bank, Cypress, Docker, Gatling, Git, Java, Jenkins, JMeter, JSON, k6, Karate, Kubernetes, LLM, MicroServices, Newman, Parasoft, Playwright, Postman, Python, QA, RestAssured, WireMock

Skills Required