Quality Assurance

About the job  

The QA Automation Developer will develop, maintain, and extend frameworks and test automation solutions utilizing the latest technologies and variety of languages. This individual contributor role improves and builds automation solutions for multiple products, platforms, and services. This role solves complex automation problems, implements new scripts, tools, and test data. You will be working on a diverse multinational Quality Assurance team that delivers the world's most sophisticated software solution in the financial industry.  

Who will love this job  

• A detail-oriented helper – you are enthusiastic about testing trade order & execution management systems, high-speed risk management and risk compliance system using your strong foundation in quality assurance to pay attention to details and work on multiple projects at the same time 
• A collaborator – you like working with developers, product managers, subject matter experts and other departments to deliver flawless software to our clients 
• A doer – you take initiative, have a bias towards action, love narrowing down problems, finding root causes and working through those issues with developers 
• A learner - who is not afraid of being outside their comfort zone and is ready to dive into the complex finance business domain
• Anexcellent teammate – you are a reliable, positive, proactive, and flexible colleague that assists others in the delivery of mission-critical testing   

What you'll do  

• Focus on reducing the manual test case footprint and employing an automation first approach
• Develop automated test cases from manual test cases and business requirements
• Participate in design, solution planning sessions and development of test automation solutions and scripts
• Participate in analysis, evaluation and selection of new frameworks, solutions, and tools
• Participate in requirement reviews, assessments, feasibility analysis to ensure full understanding of products to identify proper test frameworks, methodology, and tools
• Develop, maintain, and extend frameworks and automation solutions used for testing 
• Participate in code/peer reviews with team members, developers and/or third-party vendors
• Work with team members to design frameworks, automation solutions or select tools
• Work collaboratively with all members of development and test teams utilizing agile methodology
• Participate in development of test data strategy and preparation of test data
• Work in a fast-paced environment on a team that collaborates with multiple departments 
• Ensure test automation is executed every release, report results, and progress according to test plan 
• Document, track and escalate issues as appropriate
• Champion agility and improvement in test process
• Advocate of test automation and secure, performant software 

You should have  

• Experience in software development and automated testing 
• Technical skills and programming: Java, JavaScript, Python, C++, etc.
• Experience with test tools and frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, JMeter, Postman, RestAssured, Cucumber, Selenium, Playwright
• Familiarity with software testing (unit, integration, functional, regression) 
• Experience with Jira, Zephyr, TestRail, or related tools
• Experience with source control, build and deployment tools such as Git, Bitbucket, Maven, TeamCity
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• Experience working in an onshore/offshore staffing model
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Strong work ethic and highly motivated
• Must be able to multitask, work both independently and collaboratively in a team 
• Financial systems/operations background is a plus 
• Experience with trade order and execution management systems  
• Experience with Linux, Windows environment is a plus 
• Excellent verbal, written, communication and documentations skills
• A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Math, Physics, Engineering, Quantitative Finance, Economics, or other similar field or equivalent qualifications.  

** This role is not remote—applicants must be based in Montreal.

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