QA Engineer

Zafin; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Stock option plan

Incentive opportunities

Paid leave

Job summary

Zafin is seeking a QA Engineer II to join our Banking Platform team in Ottawa. You will ensure quality, reliability, and readiness of our banking product across development, testing, and release cycles.

Responsibilities include planning and executing tests across customer implementations, validating requirements, identifying defects, and supporting release readiness. You will develop automated suites and integrate testing into CI/CD while collaborating with Product and Engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of QA in banking/fintech or SaaS.
• Strong functional testing, backend and data validation.
• Experience with API testing and test automation.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in CS/Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute testing across customer implementation workstreams.
• Review requirements and create effective test scenarios and test cases.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, API, and end-to-end testing.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for CI/CD pipelines.
• Identify, document, and track defects using Jira or similar tools.
• Support UAT and validation activities with test evidence and defect updates.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Functional testing

API testing

Backend testing

SQL validation

Automation testing

Jira

CI/CD

AI testing

Postman

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Equivalent experience

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

TestNG

Cucumber

Rest Assured

JMeter

Git

Confluence

Postman

Kafka

Job description

• We are looking for a QA Engineer II to join our Banking Platform organization
• In this role, you will help ensure the quality, reliability, and readiness of Zafin's banking product as it is developed, tested, and released to customers
• You will be responsible for planning and executing testing across customer implementation workstreams, validating business requirements, identifying defects, and supporting release readiness
• This role requires strong functional testing skills, good backend and data validation experience, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced banking technology environment
• Familiarity or hands-on experience with AI tools is a plus, as the product is evolving toward AI-enabled capabilities
• Review business requirements, functional specifications, and customer configuration details to define effective test scenarios and test cases
• Perform functional, regression, integration, backend, API, and end-to-end testing for SaaS banking product implementations
• Validate backend data processing, file-based workflows, system integrations, APIs, batch jobs, and customer-specific configurations
• Prepare and manage test data required for test execution
• Execute test cases, document results, capture test evidence, and clearly report testing progress
• Identify, document, track, and retest defects using tools such as Jira or similar platforms
• Work with Product and Engineering stakeholders to clarify requirements, resolve defects, and support release readiness
• Support UAT and validation activities by providing test evidence, defect updates, and scenario clarification when required
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites that validate product functionality, reliability, and quality
• Embed automated testing throughout the software development lifecycle, integrating automated regression and validation tests into product CI/CD pipeline(s) providing continuous quality feedback
• Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, automation, test execution efficiency, and overall product quality
• Identify repeatable test scenarios that can be considered for automation
• Contribute to QA process improvement, test coverage enhancement, and overall product quality
• Test coverage is clear, complete, and aligned to product requirements
• Test automation frameworks reduce manual effort and speed up release cycles
• Defects are well documented, properly tracked, and resolved early in the development cycle
• Testing status, risks, and release readiness are communicated clearly
• QA is seen as a trusted, embedded partner within the Banking Platform engineering team

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements - includes opportunities for hybrid work, flexible hours, flexible locations, and various types of paid leave
• Meaningful recognition - we truly value our team members' contributions and ensure that their achievements are properly recognized and rewarded through areas such as incentive opportunities
• Ownership - we offer a stock option plan that is exclusively for employees who share our sense of purpose and create value that keeps us on our A-game

Hands-on experience with functional testing, backend testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testingAbility to work independently, manage priorities, and support multiple concurrent initiativesGood SQL skills for data validation, backend verification, and issue investigationStrong understanding of the Software Testing Life Cycle, defect lifecycle, test planning, test case design, and regression testingFamiliarity or hands-on experience with AI tools or AI-assisted testing, with interest in building toward AI-enabled QA workflowsAbility to understand business requirements and convert them into clear, effective test scenariosExperience working with Jira, Confluence, test management tools, or similar platformsBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience3+ years of experience in software quality assurance; experience in banking, fintech, financial services, or enterprise SaaS environments preferredExperience testing APIs using tools such as PostmanStrong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skillsExperience testing banking platforms, financial products, pricing, billing, deposits, lending, payments, or transaction workflowsHands-on experience with automation testing tools such as Selenium, Cypress, TestNG, Cucumber, Rest Assured, or similar frameworksExperience with performance testing tools such as JMeterUnderstanding of Kafka, ETL, batch processing, data pipelines, or message-based integrationsBasic knowledge of cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Git, or DevOps practices