QA Automation Engineer

Job Title: Sr. QA Automation Engineer

Location: Canada (Remote)

Employment Type: Contract

We are looking for a skilled QA Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts to ensure high-quality software delivery. The ideal candidate will work closely with developers, product owners, and Dev Ops teams in an Agile environment to ensure functional, regression, and performance testing is automated and scalable.

• Design, develop, and maintain automation test scripts and frameworks
• Perform functional, regression, smoke, and integration testing
• Collaborate with developers and business teams to understand requirements and acceptance criteria
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Identify, document, and track defects using tools like JIRA
• Execute automated test suites and analyze test results
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives)
• Ensure test coverage for web, API, and backend applications
• Support UAT and production validation when required
• Follow best practices for test automation and QA standards

• Strong experience in QA Automation testing
• Hands‑on experience with automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, TestNG, JUnit
• Programming experience in Java, Python, JavaScript, or C#
• Experience with API testing (Postman, Rest Assured, SOAP UI)
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, Git Lab)
• Knowledge of version control systems (Git)
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
• Strong understanding of STLC and SDLC
• Excellent communication and documentation skills

• Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, Load Runner)
• Experience in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber, Spec Flow)
• Exposure to containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)