Senior QA Automation Engineer (Winnipeg)

Project Description

Applying to the position, you may join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. Our client is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds to ensure long‑term sustainability. The company invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed‑income instruments.

Benefits

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast‑paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts with independence improving efficiency and test coverage to enable business capabilities, working in an Agile environment that includes business and T&D partner teams.
• Drive a shift‑left approach to software validation, guiding the team to apply automation themselves versus handing to QA/QE to automate.
• Participate in product design and development to ensure that quality is built in from the beginning.
• Monitor the effectiveness of test automation and drive improvements through insights gained via analysis at various stages of test automation to ensure stability, efficiency, and scalability.
• Define and execute test plans, test cases/scripts, identify defects, analyze test results and partner with developers to ensure that products or services meet quality standards.
• Apply advanced understanding of engineering best practices and drive continuous improvement across the team through coaching and influencing.
• Adhere to Agile SDLC and execute related duties as required.
• Foster collaboration and mentorship promoting a culture of feedback, learning and qualified growth.
• Maintain strong relationships with business partners, peer IT teams and vendor partners.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in a related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science).
• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with scripting with SQL, Python, Pytest.
• Experience with QE processes and methodologies, automated and manual test processes, test planning, test case design, scripting, execution, automated test tools, regression testing.
• Experience writing clean, usable, and efficient code.
• Experience interacting and coordinating test activities among multiple teams and ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
• Nice to have: AWS cloud testing experience.
• Exposure to performance and load testing.