Requisition Title: Java Automation Engineer
Location Address: WFH / Toronto, on
Contract Duration: 1 year
Candidate Value Proposition
• The successful candidate will have the opportunity to join a challenging project, utilizing new technology stack with a focused, talented group of developers, business users and architects.
Typical Day in Role
• Collaborating closely with a team of backend API developers, Android & iOS app developers, business system analysts, and architects to work on both new features and incremental improvements to the bank’s flagship mobile app
• Developing of automated test scenarios
• Creating robust, repeatable automated testing solutions for our production software
• Developing both positive and negative test scenarios while working with product owners, business system analysts, architects, and other technical leads to test new features
• Reviewing pull requests in Bitbucket, working on sprint tasks i.e. test scenario development solutions
• Helping to triage any issues automated tests uncover or any issue raised by production support, and communicating closely with the development team on Slack throughout the day
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1. 1+ years of automated API integration testing experience
2. Strong test development & test automation skills along with 3+ years of JavaScript and/or Java experience
3. Minimum 1 project utilizing RestAssure or similar tools for testing and validating REST services
4. Minimum 1 project using Cucumber (Selenium or any other JavaScript testing tool is ok but cucumber is preferred)
5. Documenting findings or bugs / improvements made to framework: You have strong written technical documentation skills, including clearly articulating current and proposed architecture and codifying conventions and best practices
6. Good communication and teamwork skills to work with multiple groups across the bank, gathering requirements
Nice to have:
– Cloud modernization is a plus (using Azure) but GCP or AWS is a plus
– Exp. with Jenkins or Docker is a plus
Degrees or certifications:
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required