Automation Developer

GovTech Talent Solutions Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

GovTech Talent Solutions Inc. is seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer in Toronto to drive automated testing across the software development lifecycle. The role requires collaboration with QA analysts, developers and product owners to enhance testing coverage and reliability.

You will design and implement automated test scripts, maintain frameworks and support DevOps-based testing practices, ensuring high-quality releases in an on-site setting at 5700 Yonge Street, Toronto.

Qualifications

• Must have 7+ years of experience in QA automation and testing
• Experience designing and executing automated QA tests to validate application functionality
• Strong knowledge of test automation frameworks including Selenium
• Experience with enterprise-level performance testing tools such as LoadRunner
• Familiarity with DevOps processes and tools in traditional and Agile teams

Responsibilities

• Identify automation opportunities within software testing processes
• Design, develop and execute QA tests using automation scripts
• Develop and maintain test automation frameworks
• Provide technical support for Test Automation tools and processes
• Collaborate with developers, architects and product owners to establish effective test plans
• Create test data and analyze results to validate testing outcomes
• Ensure testing automation is version-controlled and documented

Skills

Automation scripting

Test automation

Selenium framework

LoadRunner

DevOps

Tools

Jira

Confluence

TestRail

Job description

Project Overview

The Public Health I+IT Solutions Branch (PHS) develops, maintains and modernizes the I+IT solutions for Public Health and associated stakeholders. The branch manages ministry-supported public health solutions and ensures public health technology solutions are streamlined and integrate with the broader digital health sector. Ontario’s Public Health IT ecosystem supports critical functions essential for public health protection, disease prevention and legislative compliance, including immunization tracking, disease surveillance, and environmental health monitoring. The solutions support the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Public Health programs to fulfill legislation and regulation including the Immunization School Pupils Act, Child Care and Early Years Act, COVID-19 Vaccination Reporting Act, Health Protection and Promotion Act and the Smoke-Free Ontario Act. These solutions support local public health agencies to provide mandatory programs under the Ontario Public Health Standards (e.g., Infectious Diseases Protocol), meet their legislative obligations and respond effectively to emerging health risks. Resources are needed to provide specialized expertise to sustain and enhance Ontario’s Public Health IT ecosystem in order to mitigate risks of system outages, protect data integrity, and maintain legislative compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Identifies opportunities for automation within software testing processes
• Designs and executes QA tests using scripts that automatically test functionality.
• Designs and writes test automation scripts
• Utilizes test automation frameworks
• Works with QA analysts and software developers to find solutions
• Review test automation approach improvement.
• Analyze testing, DevOps processes, standards, and best practices and drive necessary improvements.
• Provide technical support to Test Automation tools.
• Participate in Sprint Retrospective to examine current Quality Assurance practices to identify potential improvement opportunities.
• Evaluate test automation tools and processes and provide recommendations to promote best practices.
• Transform functional, business, and system knowledge into effective test case planning and execution.
• Create test data according to the test plan; analyze testing results and retesting until expected results are obtained; perform reviews with users and ensures client acceptability levels are met (e.g. participating in walk throughs); recommend changes to ensure acceptable testing results; retest all criteria in a live environment and recommend user sign off for implementation.
• Work closely with developers, architects, product owners, and others in establishing effective test plans based on feature documentation.
• Apply QA and technical expertise and engage other expertise to track and resolve testing and production issues and other IT related problems with quality deficiencies and maintain client service integrity.
• Ensure that testing automation is under source control, documented and disaster recovery is in place.

Qualifications & Requirements

REQUIRED

• Must be able to work 5 days onsite per week at 5700 Yonge Street, Toronto
• Identifies opportunities for automation within software testing processes
• Designs and develops and executes QA tests using automation scripts that automatically test functionality
• Designs and develops test automation frameworks
• Designs and develops and utilizes test automation new technologies such as AI
• Experience with enterprise-level performance testing tools such as LoadRunner
• Review test automation approach improvement
• Experience with tools such as Selenium framework

NICE TO HAVE

• Knowledge and experience with Public Sector Health related projects

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Public Sector Experience - 5 points

• 5+ years of experience working with federal/provincial/broader public-sector healthcare providers
• Knowledge of Public Sector Enterprise Architecture artifacts (or similar), processes and practices, and ability to produce technical documentation that comply with industry standard practices
• In-depth knowledge of industry standard such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and Public Sector I&IT project management methodologies.
• Knowledge and experience with Public Sector Health related projects
• Knowledge and understanding of Ministry policy and IT project approval processes and requirements Public Sector Experience adopting and adhering to Public Sector Unified I&IT Project Methodology, Public Sector Enterprise Architecture and Public Sector Gating process, and OPS Standard Systems Development Methodologies
• Experience with large complex IT Health-related projects.

QA and Automation & Testing Knowledge and Experience - 45 points

• 7+ years of experience in the following:
• Experience in identifying opportunities for automation within software development and testing processes
• Design, develop, and execute automated QA tests to validate application functionality.
• Design and maintain test automation scripts using established automation frameworks (tools such as Selenium framework).
• Experience in identifying and documenting bugs and quality issues in development, service or business processes.
• Experience with installing applications and databases relevant to automation
• Knowledge and understanding of testing methods in an object-oriented environment
• Knowledge and experience working in traditional and agile teams using standard and DevOps processes and tools
• Knowledge and experience using at least one programming language
• Experience with enterprise-level performance testing tools involves a structured process of scripting, scenario design, execution, and analysis using tools such as LoadRunner
• Performing functional and non-functional system testing of the following: Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) solutions including testing of patches, new releases, acceptance testing of enhancement request functionality for modules of the product and other enhancements, and regression testing for implementation; in house web applications; HL7-FHIR based webservices (RESTFUL/JSON/XML); Application Programming Interfaces (API); reporting solutions; integration components, extensions, and enhancements
• Performing testing of Security Components including use of SAML and JWT
• Creating complete system testing documentation and artefacts such as: test strategies, test plans, test use cases, test scripts
• API testing tools to query and test interfaces at the messaging layer, web service queries using tools such as SOAP-UI, POSTMAN or via Programming Languages
• Knowledge and experience with information retrieval packages, and data queries and ad-hoc queries (using SQL) and other query languages
• Performing Accessibility testing to websites, web content and mobile applications to conform to the World Wide Web Consortium Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, tools to support Web Accessibility testing in support of AODA legislation
• Test results reports, including performance and security testing results, for use in Defect Reviews with clients, partners and project team
• Business Intelligence (BI) solution to plan, prepare, and execute testing of BI solution, including data setup/integration and validating data in the BI solution accessed through predefined analytical reports, ad-hoc reporting tools and dashboards to ensure accuracy, completeness, and data integrity of the solution
• Validating successful deployment of releases in production environments, preparing reports on testing results

Logging, Tracking and Defect Reporting - 35 points

• 7+ years of experience with:
• Identifying and documenting issues and risks
• Creating and maintaining defect logs and defect summary reports (using tools such as Jira or Confluence, Test rail)
• Updating tasks and project status
• Participating in QA and cross functional team meetings
• Prioritizing test execution based on business priority, defect patterns, and available testing time
• Dealing creatively with problems stemming from shared resources such as test environments and test data
• Actively participating in walkthroughs and triage sessions.

General Skills - 15 points

• Proven technical leadership skills, with ability to identify areas for improvement, and recommend solutions
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills
• Proven troubleshooting and critical thinking experience
• Demonstrated ability to apply strong listening skills to facilitate issue resolution
• Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships
• Excellent customer service skills, including tact and diplomacy to ensure client needs are managed effectively
• A motivated, flexible, detail-oriented and creative team player with perseverance, excellent organization and multi-tasking abilities, and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines.

Key Skills & Competencies

Selenium, LoadRunner, SOAP-UI, POSTMAN, SQL, HL7-FHIR, RESTful, JSON, XML, API testing, SAML, JWT, WCAG, AODA, DevOps, Jira, Confluence, TestRail, Test automation frameworks, Object-oriented programming, COTS, Business Intelligence, Web Accessibility testing, Performance testing, Automated QA testing, Test data management, Defect tracking