QA Engineer: AI-Powered Test Automation & Cloud

CDM Smith; Toronto; On-site; CAD 106,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is hiring a Quality Engineer through its Trinnex subsidiary to design and maintain automated testing across APIs, web, mobile, and performance workloads, leveraging AI-assisted tooling and cloud-based testing.

You will mentor junior QA analysts, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and work with GCP, Kubernetes, and Docker to improve test reliability and scalability in a global context.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 5 years of related experience.
• Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites across API, web, mobile, and performance testing domains.
• Builds reusable test utilities, fixtures, and frameworks that improve reliability, reduce maintenance effort, support consistent test data, and reduce flakiness.
• Develops mobile test automation, including simulator and emulator execution, mobile authentication flows, API mocking strategies, and mobile CI/CD integration.
• Develops and applies AI-assisted tooling, agents, and skills to support test review, debugging, documentation, automation maintenance, and developer productivity.
• Supports scalable cloud-based load testing using Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, and related infrastructure practices.
• Analyzes requirements, test results, defects, logs, traces, and performance metrics to identify risks, root causes, business impact, and opportunities for quality improvement.
• Integrates automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with effective reporting, parallel execution, environment management, and failure analysis.
• Establishes QA best practices, coding standards, documentation, and troubleshooting guidance for automation and cloud-based testing.
• Reviews test automation pull requests and provides clear feedback on reliability, maintainability, and quality.
• Mentors junior QA analysts and collaborates with development, product, and operations teams to improve testing outcomes.
• Performs other duties as required.

Skills

Playwright

Node.js/TypeScript

Mobile testing

Cloud/Kubernetes/Docker

AI-assisted tooling

CI/CD

Mentor teammates

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Playwright

Maestro

Docker

Kubernetes

GKE

Job description

CDM Smith is hiring a Quality Engineer through its Trinnex subsidiary to design and maintain automated testing across APIs, web, mobile, and performance workloads, leveraging AI-assisted tooling and cloud-based testing.

You will mentor junior QA analysts, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and work with GCP, Kubernetes, and Docker to improve test reliability and scalability in a global context.