QA Automation Engineer

Ratehub.ca; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Canadian Fintech company in Toronto is seeking a QA Automation Engineer for a 14-month contract with the potential to become permanent. In this role, you will collaborate with a cross-functional team to ensure high-quality product delivery. Candidates should have a strong background in QA methodologies, test automation, and agile practices. Remote candidates may also be considered. Excellent communication skills are a must.

Benefits

Accommodations for candidates with disabilities

Growth mindset environment

Team-oriented culture

Qualifications

• 3+ years of quality assurance and test engineering experience.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into automated test plans.
• Experience integrating automated tests into a CI/CD pipeline using DevOps tools.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Engineering to define test strategy.
• Design and maintain automated test suites for end-to-end testing.
• Define and track quality metrics.

Skills

QA methodologies

Test strategies

Automation frameworks

Java

TypeScript

GIT

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Selenium

Postman

JIRA

GitHub Actions

Job description

Overview

We’re Ratehub, a Canadian Fintech serving as a one-stop shop for consumers’ financial needs across Save, Spend, Borrow, Invest, and Protect. Our team works across Product & Engineering, Sales & Marketing, Finance, Operations, and more to help Canadians make better financial choices. We deliver digital application technology and in-house brokerages that assist over 2M Canadians per month. Our businesses include mortgage and life insurance brokerages, home and auto insurance brokerages, mortgage origination and servicing, a Financial Services Marketplace, and a content business across Ratehub and MoneySense. We strive to deliver the best online mortgage experience, personalized credit card and loan options, and competitive insurance policies year-round. This role is based in downtown Toronto, with remote candidates considered for the right fit.

We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer (14 month contract with potential to become permanent) to join a cross-functional team of developers, product managers, and other quality engineers to test and deliver high-quality products. The ideal candidate is hands-on, owns reliable automation, drives quality and efficiency through systems and processes, and collaborates to build user-centric experiences for Ratehub members.

Role type: Contract (14 months) with potential to convert to permanent. Location: Downtown Toronto (remote considered).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Design to define test strategy and test plans for high-quality, user-centric products
• Own testing plans, processes, and strategies to ensure testing is efficiently executed throughout the development lifecycle
• Design and maintain automated test suites for end-to-end testing including functional, regression, integration, and smoke testing
• Perform manual cross-browser testing for responsive design and compatibility, while driving automation wherever possible
• Troubleshoot and debug test failures; identify root causes and work with development teams to resolve issues
• Participate in best practice discussions and code reviews to improve processes, libraries, and ways of working across QA and Engineering teams
• Contribute to release cycles and CI/CD pipelines, providing feedback for faster releases with an automation focus
• Define and track quality metrics such as test coverage, automation coverage, and defect counts to identify gaps and improvement areas

Qualifications

• 3+ years of quality assurance and test engineering experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, test strategies, and best practices
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into automated test plans
• Proven ability to implement and evolve QA processes to scale testing across multiple products
• Experience in an agile development environment (Scrum/Kanban ceremonies)
• Track record of developing maintainable automated test suites
• High proficiency in test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, or equivalent
• High proficiency with Java, TypeScript, or equivalent language
• Proficient with Git and source control
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Curiosity and ability to learn quickly in a changing environment

Other skills

• Experience integrating automated tests into a CI/CD pipeline using DevOps tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Hands-on experience with JIRA and Confluence
• Knowledge of Web Services protocols – JSON, HTTP, XML, SOAP
• Experience with API testing tools such as Rest Assured, Postman, SoapUI, JMeter
• Knowledge of mobile testing tools such as Appium

Our Tech Stack

• QA Automation: Postman, Selenium
• Back-end: Node/Express, PHP/Laravel, Java
• Front-end: JavaScript/React, styled-components/CSS, Next.js
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Eventing/Pub-Sub: Kafka
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows
• Packaging and Deployment: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GCP/GKE
• Observability and Monitoring: New Relic, Heap

Culture Fit

• Members first — we prioritise the interests and needs of our members above all else
• Growth mindset — we set ambitious goals and challenge the status quo, taking responsible risks
• Better together — we are One team with One common goal, supporting each other to achieve great results
• Run after problems — we tackle problems head on, seek solutions, and choose the harder right over the easier wrong
• Measure, Learn, Iterate, Innovate — we focus on getting things done, measure what matters, and iterate in a data-driven way

Ratehub welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.