QA Analyst - Automation & Chaos Testing

QA Analyst – Automation & Chaos Testing

Position Description
This role is hybrid and requires you to be at our downtown Toronto and/or Client office at a minimum 2 days per week - subject to change at any time. 

Your future duties and responsibilities
• Lead the planning, design, and execution of chaos testing across the agreed application scope.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to provide regular updates, status reporting, risk communication, and expectation alignment.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the client regarding chaos testing scope, execution progress, issues, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
• Design chaos test scenarios covering:
• Network condition failures
• UI state failures
• API mock failure injection
• Review and map test cases to appropriate chaos types and execution scenarios.
• Define expected behavior, recovery paths, fallback handling, and pass/fail criteria for chaos scenarios.
• Partner with QA, automation, development, product, and environment teams to prepare for and execute chaos tests.
• Support the setup of network simulation, API mocks, failure injection mechanisms, and UI state test conditions.
• Oversee execution tracking, defect logging, triage, and retesting of fixes.
• Monitor team productivity, execution velocity, quality of deliverables, and adherence to agreed timelines.
• Maintain delivery trackers, test execution dashboards, RAID logs, defect summaries, and client-facing status reports.
• Analyze failures to identify resilience gaps, recovery issues, and user experience impacts.
• Provide recommendations to enhance error handling, retry logic, graceful degradation, and recovery behavior.
• Prepare clear and concise execution updates, defect summaries, leadership reports, and final chaos testing findings.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
• 6+ years of experience in QA engineering, test automation, resilience testing, chaos testing, or quality engineering.
• Hands-on experience/Exposure in Chaos Testing to assess system resiliency, fault tolerance, and stability.
• Strong proficiency in Java programming with solid object-oriented design principles.
• Expertise in Selenium Automation for web application testing and regression automation.
• Experience with REST Assured for API automation and validation of RESTful services.
•Strong understanding of Automation Framework Design and Architecture, including development of scalable, reusable, and maintainable frameworks.
•Hands-on experience with Perfecto for cloud-based web and mobile test automation.
•Experience in Mobile Automation Testing across Android and iOS platforms.
•Strong expertise in Web, API, and Mobile Automation Testing.
•Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
•Passion for Quality Engineering, system resiliency, stability testing, and continuous improvement.
•Experience integrating automation suites with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.).
•Prior experience in the Banking or Financial Services domain.
•Knowledge of performance, resiliency, and reliability testing practices.

Disclaimer : Use of the term ‘engineering’ in this job posting refers to the technical sense related to Information Technology (IT) and does not imply that the individual practices engineering or possesses the requisite license as prescribed by the applicable provincial or territorial engineering regulator. We are seeking individuals with expertise in IT engineering-related functions, but licensure from an engineering regulator is not a prerequisite for this position. Engineering is a regulated profession in Canada which is restricted in terms of use of titles and designation.

"CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $80,000–$130,000. This role is an existing vacancy."

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