Senior QA Automation Engineer (Selenium/API) Hybrid

Empire; Kingston, Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 93,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Education reimbursement

Flexible work arrangements

Four weeks vacation

Pension plan

Wellness programs

Job summary

Empire Life is hiring a QA Senior Automation Tester to join our IT Quality Assurance Team. You’ll develop high‑quality automated test scripts for web apps, APIs and other applications, with emphasis on automation, functional and integration testing.

Collaborating with developers, security and network teams, you’ll troubleshoot issues, contribute to CI/CD configurations and mentor junior testers. A university degree or equivalent and 5+ years in test automation are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years work experience in test automation/software development within the banking, insurance industries or equivalent.
• 5+ experience with Selenium/Playwright based test automation frameworks
• 5+ years experience with an Agile Development Environment
• 5+ years experience with API – REST test automation
• 3+ years experience with Mobile automation/Appium
• Experience with CI (GitHub Actions preferable) and version control systems (Git preferable)
• 3+ years experience maintaining an existing test automation framework
• Ability to work independently and as a team member as required
• Ability to report all defects effectively and accurately
• Ability to effectively communicate with peers and leadership
• Flexibility to adapt in a fast paced, changing environment
• Experience with designing Integration, System, User Acceptance tests
• Completion of a University degree, college diploma, technical training, and/or equivalent experience
• Extended Availability: Requirement for occasional overtime or after-hours support as dictated by business needs.

Responsibilities

• Software development (“coding”) of high quality test automation scripts
• Contribute to automated testing with functional, behavioural and integration testing with flexibility to test manually
• Proactively work with internal development, network and security teams to ensure robustness and effectiveness of test suites created
• Troubleshoot problems and ensure resolution of issues impeding effective test coverage or execution
• Research and investigate improvements; analyze and provide findings and recommendations to management
• CI/CD pipeline test configurations
• Training and onboarding junior team members
• Setting up new initiatives in an existing test automation framework

Skills

Test automation

Selenium

Playwright

Agile

API testing

Mobile automation

CI/CD

Git

Communication

Education

University degree or higher

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Appium

GitHub Actions

REST API testing

Job description

Empire Life is hiring a QA Senior Automation Tester to join our IT Quality Assurance Team. You’ll develop high‑quality automated test scripts for web apps, APIs and other applications, with emphasis on automation, functional and integration testing.

Collaborating with developers, security and network teams, you’ll troubleshoot issues, contribute to CI/CD configurations and mentor junior testers. A university degree or equivalent and 5+ years in test automation are required.