Quality Engineering Architect

At Tangerine, we’re redefining banking. As Canada’s leading digital bank, we thrive on innovation, agility, and bold thinking, tackling every challenge head‑on with leading technology and the unstoppable power of collaboration. Our client‑obsessed teams deliver flexible, accessible banking solutions, breakthrough products, and award‑winning service. Beyond banking, we’re committed to making an impact in the communities we serve and across our organization.

We foster a culture built on integrity, inclusion, and fearless ambition – where diverse perspectives are valued, and people are empowered to do their best work.

• Provide technical guidance and support to Quality Engineering (QE) resources responsible for the development and maintenance of all technical aspects of QE:
• • UX and UI test automation frameworks both web and mobile e.g. Web Driver.io / Appium, SOAP / RESTful services.
  • Design/implementation of “Accelerators” – custom microservices / apps supporting test, performance testing techniques, test
    
    Ops – testing in Dev Ops world (including Docker, Kubernetes and Google Cloud) and support Cloud Native Development as pertaining to testing.
• Lead maintenance and support of CICD pipelines and ensure the seamless integration of testing assets into pipelines.
• Develop application guidelines and standards for Tangerine as pertaining to test automation tooling.
• Evolve and enhance existing Tangerine testing framework architectures to improve test robustness and effectiveness.
• Perform analysis of the testing processes, frameworks and tools and provide recommendations for improvements based on best practices, industry standards and business needs.
• Maintain a technical proficiency with respect to programming languages and processes to ensure that Tangerine is well positioned for technological advances in the marketplace.
• Work with senior technical personnel and teams (Development, Dev Ops etc) across IT to find solutions and support testing activities.
• Advise team members on best practices within testing / automation.
• Evaluate new technologies and participate in the continuous improvement of applications and systems (e.g. emerging testing frameworks, CI/CD, cloud native architectures).
• Lead the adoption, implementation and support of AI best practices within Quality Engineering, including responsible use, governance, validation, monitoring and continuous improvement of AI‑enabled testing capabilities.
• Establish and promote standards for AI‑assisted quality engineering practices, including prompt design, test data protection, model output verification, bias and hallucination detection, security guardrails, traceability and human oversight, aligned to industry risk management and governance practices.
• Ability to work self‑governed or within a team; work within an Agile environment.

• 7+ years of demonstrated experience within test automation supporting enterprise wide testing initiatives.
• 5+ years of experience of testing REST / SOAP services.
• 5+ years of demonstrated hands‑on experience in various areas of software development, testing framework design and architecture.
• Well versed in development lifecycle and object oriented design methodologies.
• Formal software development experience is an asset, particularly for aligning Quality Engineering architecture, automation frameworks and engineering practices.
• Competent in enterprise application delivery and design techniques.
• Deep expertise in designing and scaling Quality Engineering architectures, automation frameworks and enterprise testing capabilities.
• Strong command of cloud‑native engineering and platform‑aligned testing practices, including containerized execution and orchestration models.
• Hands‑on experience with modern SDLC, source control and CI/CD ecosystems, including Git Hub, Git Hub Actions, Harness and ArgoCD.
• Proficiency in modern application development stacks, including Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, JavaScript and Angular, with the ability to align test architecture to engineering patterns.
• Expertise in API and service validation, including SOAP, REST, service virtualization, mocking techniques and tools such as…