Title: QA Automation Developer

Client: Investment Industry

Type: 6-Month Contract + Opportunity to Extend

Location: Toronto, ON (4 day/week onsite), 37.5 hours/week

Day-to-Day Responsibilities: 

• Collabera is seeking a QA Automation a major Canadian Investment Industry in downtown Toronto.
• The successful Automation Developer will be responsible for automation testing for back-end applications that support trading and post-trade activities across asset classes including equities, fixed income, derivatives, OTC, and FX. 
• Daily, they will be performing 70% back-end automation testing and 30% will be functional responsibilities that require the candidate to have a strong understanding of Capital Markets Lifecycle knowledge. The frame has been built, and the candidate will focused on enhancing automation and adding test cases
  
  Must haves:
• 5 years of experience as an Automation Developer (Mindset of an SDET)
• 3 years of Capital markets experience with a strong understanding of Front, Middle, and back office trading lifecycle
• Previous experience of automation testing on back-end applications
• 5 years’ experience with Python
• 5 years’ of experience Pytest Framework. Previous experience developing test cases and enhancing automation in an Python/ Py Test Environment, SQL experience
• Data Validation experience
• Strong understanding of Data Validation Testing, looking at back-end outputs and inputs
• Strong understanding of Cloud concepts and Storage, preferably with AWS

CI/CD Experience:

• Strong grasp of CI/CD concepts, ecosystem, and best practices.
• Tools: Proficient with GitHub Actions and/or Jenkins. While the team currently uses GitHub Actions, experience with Jenkins or similar tools is equally acceptable.
• Pipeline Automation: Capable of building event-driven automation pipelines triggered by actions such as code commits, pull requests, or merges.
• Strong understanding to Testing Lifecycle: Automation, Regression. Smoke, and UAT testing
• Self-driven and can wear multiple hats

 Nice to have:

• Experience with Gherkin
• Previous experience as an SDET