Test Automation Specialist

4 weeks ago


Toronto, Canada Scotiabank Full time

Requisition ID: 209771

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

**Is this role right for you? In this role you will**:

- Conducts and adjusts testing methods and practices to assess and evolve product
- Design test approach, Develop Test Strategies and Plans. Select appropriate test tools. Align test cases to requirements and user stories.
- In conjunction with the development team, collaborate, design and build automated and manual tests, develop/create test data, construct and execute exploratory, system, regression, migration, back-end, and user acceptance tests, and determine whether to create any complex environments or any major improvements for the automation frameworks.
- Write clear and concise defect reports and work as an empathetic advocate for the customer’s quality experience. Triage and prioritize defects for remediation, with the Product Owner and development team.
- Conduct exploratory testing to find bugs that other testing means would not find during every sprint and drive testing workshops.
- Wherever possible, conduct functional test and ensure their readability (clear, succinct, and using common business jargon) as well as tests must be maintainable (built with reusable domain specific testing language components)
- Working knowledge in Automation frameworks, developing,designing and executing test automation scripts (Selenium, API Tools (Postman), testNG, any one of behaviour driven development(BDD) or Test driven development(TDD frameworks like Karate and Cucumber)
- Thorough experience with data extraction, transformations and conversion testing
- Ability to produce dashboards and reports for sprints or code releases.
- Analyze industry best practices to recommend improvements to methodology, test environments and workflow to promote an efficient and cost-effective UAT process.
- Collaborate actively with the development team, Product Owners, B/As
- Embed with development teams and infuse quality in every phase of the software development lifecycle by providing continuous feedback from QA standpoint regarding standards, user experience, possible performance issues, and future bugs.
- Participate in product design and requirements analysis, work with the team during project planning to accurately estimate work (data creation, test cases/acceptance test design, test execution, automation framework design/improvements, scripting tasks, setup environments, etc) and scope release deliverables (prioritizing defects and bugs).
- Lead end user focused testing activities and inform how product needs to be evolved
- Create and execute acceptance criteria based on requirements, assessing usefulness of test cases and adjusting approach where required
- Troubleshoot when problems arise and contribute to their resolution in a hands-on manner when necessary.

**Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have**:

- B.S. in Computer Science, Information Technology or Equivalent Education / Work experience
- Test automation experience with 5+ years of hands on experience.
- Experience in analyzing the testing scope and developing work estimates
- Experience in creating Test Strategies/Test Plans.
- QA analyst with minimum 2+ years of leading testing activities
- API specific testing Experience with 2+ years of hands on experience
- UI/Database/Backend (mainframe) testing experience
- Experience working with both Agile methodology and Waterfall SDLC
- Good Knowledge of JIRA and Confluence
- White Box testing following QA principles, practices and methodologies
- Good understanding of UAT standards and methodologies
- Experience writing test documentation such as Test Plans, scripts and test results reports
- Ability to analyze/interpret test results and provide recommendations to improve testing automation standards
- Strong communication skills - explain things clearly to members of the lab and conduct stand ups
- Good analytical and conceptual thinking skills, using creativity and attention to detail to develop testing solutions that help proactively uncover issues, find bugs and assess product with the end user in mind.
- Strategic thinking ability enabling the selection of optimal testing solutions (smart vs mass testing)
- The individual requires good oral and written communication skills and proven ability to: represent testing status/issues/make presentations to varied groups; deal with all levels of line management; and conveying clear and compelling project artifacts.
- Openness to ideas, willingness to take on any task or role, focus on the customer, and a constant view of the big picture**.**

**What's in it for you?**
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across



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