Remote Automation QA Engineer

Job Title: QA Automation Developer

Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Primarily Remote)

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Work Arrangement: Remote within Canada, with occasional in-person meetings or work sessions in Edmonton

Job Overview

We are seeking experienced QA Automation Developers to support digital transformation and service delivery initiatives. The successful candidates will work as part of cross-functional teams to ensure the quality, reliability, performance, and security of digital applications and services.

The role involves developing automated test suites, creating test plans and test cases, implementing different testing strategies, and promoting quality engineering practices throughout the software development lifecycle. Candidates should have strong experience with test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and modern testing tools.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, and test scenarios to support frequent and reliable software releases.

Design, develop, and implement automated test scripts and test suites.

Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions.

Design and execute system, load, performance, security, and end-to-end testing.

Coordinate contributions to automated test suites and promote reusable testing components.

Support quality engineering practices, including code linting, test coverage, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), and Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Contribute to the development and use of test databases, reusable testing frameworks, and AI-assisted testing initiatives.

Define and track quality metrics to measure application and service performance.

Automate the collection of testing metrics and the generation of quality reports and artifacts.

Collaborate with developers, business analysts, product owners, and other team members to identify quality issues and improve delivery processes.

Support continuous improvement of QA automation standards, testing practices, and overall software quality.

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience developing automated test scripts and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• 4+ years of experience creating and modifying automated test scripts.
• 3+ years of experience preparing or supporting the preparation of automation test plans and test cases.
• 3+ years of experience working with automation testing frameworks.
• 2+ years of experience using GitHub.
• 3+ years of experience with load testing, performance testing, security testing, and/or end-to-end testing.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ year of experience with API testing.
• 1+ year of experience using Cypress or Playwright.
• 1+ year of experience with Cucumber and/or Gherkin.
• 1+ year of experience establishing and gathering automation testing metrics.
• 2+ years of experience implementing QA automation standards within an organization.
• 1+ year of experience using Jira Xray.
• 1+ year of experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in large, complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

Security Requirements

Candidates must provide a current criminal record check.

Additional security clearance may be required depending on project assignment.

Candidates must be eligible to obtain higher-level security clearances, including RCMP Top Secret Clearance, if required.

Final engagement is subject to satisfactory security clearance checks and written approval.