Senior SDET Engineer: Automated Testing & Quality

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement(SCHL); Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 87,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual vacation

Performance incentive

Pension plan

Group insurance

Training & mentorship

Job summary

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join the Business Solutions Engineering Team. You’ll help build reliable, scalable software platforms, advocate testing best practices and implement automated testing across UI, API, and integration components.

This role is hybrid, with some in-office presence in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto. The successful candidate has strong coding and testing experience and a passion for quality and

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of five (5) years in software quality engineering, test automation, or SDET roles.
• Strong hands-on coding with UI, API, and integration test automation frameworks.
• Experience with accessibility testing techniques (WCAG 2.1 AA, axe-core, screen readers).
• Experience building testing frameworks, libraries, and test strategies.
• Solid understanding of test pyramid and shift-left testing principles.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, IT services management, agile/lean methods, and SDLC.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in elaboration of manual and automated tests (functional, end-to-end, performance, regression, UI components, API).
• Help define quality standards, tooling strategies, and test automation processes.
• Design and manage testing environments and data.
• Design, implement, and maintain scripts for automated testing of applications and services.
• Collaborate with developers to promote testing best practices and drive test automation adoption.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Complete high-complexity development projects for production deployment.

Skills

UI testing

API testing

Test automation

Shift-left testing

CI/CD

Teamwork

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Postman

REST Assured

Pact

K6

JMeter

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

NodeJS

JavaScript/TypeScript

C#

SQL

Job description

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join the Business Solutions Engineering Team. You’ll help build reliable, scalable software platforms, advocate testing best practices and implement automated testing across UI, API, and integration components.

This role is hybrid, with some in-office presence in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto. The successful candidate has strong coding and testing experience and a passion for quality and