Senior QA Engineer

Lorven Technologies Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Lorven Technologies Inc. is seeking a Senior QA Engineer for a long-term project in Toronto, ON and Ottawa, ON with hybrid work arrangements.

The role focuses on ensuring quality, performance, and release-readiness of enterprise banking software deployed to Tier-1 financial institutions. The candidate will design test strategies, execute API and backend data validations, govern defects through RCA, and integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of QA/testing experience in Banking/FinTech/Enterprise SaaS.
• Experience testing distributed microservices and enterprise platforms.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Translate complex banking requirements into structured test plans and edge-case test scenarios.
• Execute end-to-end testing across deposit products, pricing, fees, and billing lifecycles.
• Maintain audit-ready test documentation and compliance evidence for regulated deployments.
• Execute API tests via Postman to validate payloads, status codes, latency, and errors.
• Write complex SQL queries to verify data integrity across ETL pipelines and batch jobs.
• Test asynchronous messages (e.g., Kafka) across producer/consumer endpoints.
• Lead defect governance and triage with cross-functional teams to safeguard releases.

Skills

API testing

SQL scripting

STLC knowledge

Agile / Scrum

Postman / Newman

JIRA / Confluence

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Postman

Newman

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Our client is looking Senior QA Engineer for Long Term project in Toronto, ON / Ottawa, ON (Hybrid) Below is the detail requirement.

Domain: Enterprise SaaS | Core Banking| Product &Pricing Platform

Summary

TheSenior QA Engineerensures the quality,performance, and releasereadiness of enterprise core banking software deployed to Tier-1 financial institutions. Operating across agile feature teams, this role designs test strategies, executes complex API and backend data validations (rates, fees, billing workflows), governs defects through root-cause analysis, and integrates quality gates into automated CI/CD pipelines.

• Test Architecture &Governance: Test Strategy& Planning | STLC / Defect Lifecycle | End-to-End Test Design | Traceability Matrices (RTM) | Release Sign-Off
• API & Integration Testing: REST APIs | Postman/ Newman | JSON/XML Payloads| API Contract Validation | Upstream/Downstream Integration Flows
• Backend & Data Verification: Complex SQL Scripting | Relational Databases | ETL & Pipeline Validation | Batch Processing Verification | Data Reconciliation
• Automation & Delivery: Automated Quality Gates| Regression Optimization | Apache Kafka Event Validation | CI/CD Integration | AI-Assisted Testing

KeyResponsibilities

• Translate complex bankingrequirements and functional specs into structured test plans and edge-case-inclusive test scenarios.
• Execute end-to-end testingacross deposit products, relationship pricing, fee calculation engines, and billing lifecycles.
• Maintain audit-ready test documentation, execution logs, and compliance evidence for regulated enterprise banking deployments.
• Execute rigorous API tests via Postman to validate payloads,status codes, response latency, headers, and error-handling routines.
• Write complex SQL queries acrossrelational databases to verify data integrity across ETL pipelines, data migrations, and batch jobs.
• Test and validateasynchronous event-driven messages(e.g., Apache Kafka) across producer and consumer endpoints.
• Quality Gates& Defect Governance
• Partner with engineering squads to identifymanual test candidates for automated regression suites and CI/CD quality gates.
• Log, prioritize, and drive defect resolution in JIRA with reproducible steps, system logs, and root-cause analysis (RCA).
• Lead daily defect triage meetingswith developers, BAs, and architects to safeguard release schedules and platform stability.

Requirements & Qualifications

Experience & Education:

• 5+ years of softwareQA testing experience (Senior/Lead capacity), ideallyin Banking, FinTech, or Enterprise SaaS.
• Demonstrated experience testingdistributed microservices architectures and transactional enterprise platforms.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science,Computer Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).

Core Technical Skills:

• Advanced hands-on proficiency testing RESTful APIs using Postman,Newman, or equivalent tools.
• Strong SQL scriptingcapabilities (complex joins, aggregations, data reconciliation) across relational databases.
• Deep understanding of STLC, defectmanagement lifecycles, and Agile/Scrum delivery models using JIRA and Confluence.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Hands-on testing of event streaming platforms (Apache Kafka)and data ingestion pipelines.
• Familiarity with performance testing (JMeter), cloudconcepts (Azure), or automated CI/CD pipelines.