QA Automation Engineer: UI/API/Data Validation

PTMA Financial Solutions; Quinte West; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

PMA is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to partner with developers and architects to ensure quality, reliability, and performance of PMA's web apps. You will design, build, and maintain automated test suites across UI, API, and data layers, writing scripts and validating data integrity to catch defects before production.

Experience with test automation frameworks, scripting (Python and/or TypeScript/JavaScript), SQL Server/PostgreSQL, and API testing is required, along with strong collaboration

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems/Management, Operations Management/Research, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Systems Analysis or related field (or commensurate professional experience).
• 2-3 years of professional work experience.

Responsibilities

• Work with colleagues to develop and maintain automated test suites for PMA's web applications (UI, API, and data layers).
• Design and write automated test scripts using tools such as Playwright, or similar frameworks, including data-driven test cases.
• Solicit input from end-users and developers to define test plans, acceptance criteria, and regression coverage for new features.
• Build reusable test utilities, page objects, and libraries to reduce duplication and improve test maintainability.
• Validate API responses (REST/GraphQL) for correctness, performance, and error handling, and write scripts to support load/performance testing (e.g., k6).
• Write and execute SQL queries against SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases to validate data integrity and support root cause analysis.
• Analyze test results and reports (HTML, Allure, JUnit) to identify trends, flaky tests, and areas of risk.
• Optimize the speed, reliability, and scalability of automated test suites.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by management.

Job description

PMA is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to partner with developers and architects to ensure quality, reliability, and performance of PMA's web apps. You will design, build, and maintain automated test suites across UI, API, and data layers, writing scripts and validating data integrity to catch defects before production.

Experience with test automation frameworks, scripting (Python and/or TypeScript/JavaScript), SQL Server/PostgreSQL, and API testing is required, along with strong collaboration