Test Automation Engineer

Role Overview

The QA Specialist is responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, performance, and compliance of complex digital solutions. This role partners closely with cross‑functional teams throughout the delivery lifecycle, contributing to test strategy, automation, execution, defect management, and continuous quality improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with project team members during requirements and design phases to develop test strategies, test plans, and test cases.
  
• Provide expert QA guidance and develop test strategies and plans covering multiple testing types, supported by requirements traceability matrices.
  
• Develop and execute automated and manual test scenarios and scripts; participate in test data preparation.
  
• Manage defect identification, tracking, analysis, and resolution.
  
• Use DevOps tools to provide test status reporting and issue summary reporting.
  
• Develop and maintain Quality Assurance and Quality Control Standard Operating Procedures.
  
• Work closely with Product Owners, Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Systems Analysts to ensure QA deliverables align with scope and timelines.
  
• Participate in defect review meetings and provide analysis as required.
  
• Perform functional and non‑functional testing.
  
• Conduct accessibility testing (WCAG 2.0 / AODA compliance).
  
• Execute mobile testing across platforms.
  
• Perform security testing.
  
• Manage test data and test environments.
  
• Conduct data migration testing and other testing as required.
  
• Provide backup support to other QA team members as needed.
  
• Present test strategies, plans, and results to project and management stakeholders.
  

Qualifications & Skills

Automation Testing Expertise (40%)

• Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Appium, BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, JUnit, or similar).
  
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, JavaScript, NestJS, or similar languages.
  
• Proven experience automating test cases for large‑scale web applications, mobile applications, and RESTful APIs.
  
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
  
• Implement automated performance and load testing using tools such as JMeter or Locust.
  
• Execute cross‑browser and cross‑platform automated testing.
  
• Manage test data for automated testing, including setup, selection, and validation.
  

Quality Assurance Practices (30%)

• Define and execute test strategies, test plans, and test cases based on requirements and acceptance criteria.
  
• Perform functional testing (smoke, sanity, regression, integration) and non‑functional testing (security, usability, performance).
  
• Track and manage defects using tools such as Jira or similar.
  
• Analyze test coverage, identify gaps, and improve overall test effectiveness.
  
• Conduct manual and exploratory testing for high‑risk or edge‑case scenarios.
  

Technical Expertise & Tooling (20%)

• Use version control systems such as Git or SVN.
  
• Perform API testing and automation using tools such as Postman or SoapUI.
  
• Write and execute SQL queries to validate backend data integrity.
  
• Work with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS) and virtualization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
  
• Automate web and mobile application testing across iOS and Android platforms.
  
• Apply security testing principles, including awareness of OWASP Top 10.
  
• Understand digital identity standards, verifiable credentials, decentralized identifiers, OAuth2, OIDC, JWT/JWS, and related frameworks.
  

Collaboration & Communication (10%)

• Work effectively within cross‑functional Agile/Scrum teams.
  
• Clearly document test plans, results, risks, and issues.
  
• Communicate QA progress and findings to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
  

Must Have:

• Test Automation Frameworks: Proficient in designing, implementing, and maintaining automation test frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Appium, BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, JUnit, or similar tools) for functional and regression testing across multiple platforms.
  
• Scripting & Programming Languages: Strong programming skills in languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, NestJS etc. with the ability to write robust and reusable automation scripts.
  
• Test Case Automation: Demonstrated experience in automating test cases for complex, large-scale web applications, mobile application and RESTful API implementation, ensuring high test coverages.
  
• CI/CD Integration: Hands-on experience integrating automated tests into continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar.
  
• API Testing & Automation: Experience in API testing and automation using tools like Postman, SoapUI, or similar for testing RESTful and SOAP APIs.
  

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