Trade QA Automation Engineer – Assistant Vice President

Citi; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 134,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi in Mississauga invites an experienced Trade QA Automation Engineer – Assistant Vice President to lead automated testing across the trade domain. You will own test strategies, create robust automation frameworks, and ensure end-to-end quality for complex financial software.

The role requires 5–8 years of testing experience in banking or services tech, hands-on automation with Selenium, Cucumber, and Java, plus strong leadership.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in QA/testing roles in banking or services tech.
• Knowledge of corporate banking and trade finance; experience with trade platforms is a plus.
• Hands-on automation, test script creation and modification.

Responsibilities

• Lead local and remote QA teams while remaining hands-on.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks.
• Create quality test plans, test cases, and execution strategies.
• Collaborate with developers and product teams to ensure test coverage.

Skills

Test automation

Selenium

Cucumber

JIRA

Agile

BDD

Leadership

Test scripting

Education

Bachelor’s/University degree in science, computers, information technology or engineering

Tools

QTP

Selenium

Cucumber

Job description

Discover your future at Citi

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

The Trade QA Automation Engineer – Assistant Vice President

The Trade QA Automation Engineer – Assistant Vice President applies in-depth disciplinary knowledge, contributing to the development of new techniques and the improvement of processes and work-flow for the area or function. Integrates subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area. Requires in-depth understanding of how areas collectively integrate within the sub-function as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the function and overall business. Evaluates moderately complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact, where development of an approach/taking of an action involves weighing various alternatives and balancing potentially conflicting situations using multiple sources of information. Requires good analytical skills in order to filter, prioritize and validate potentially complex and dynamic material from multiple sources. Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required. Regularly assumes informal/formal leadership role within teams. Involved in coaching and training of new recruits Significant impact in terms of project size, geography, etc. by influencing decisions through advice, counsel and/or facilitating services to others in area of specialization. Work and performance of all teams in the area are directly affected by the performance of the individual.

Responsibilities

• This challenging role which requires candidate to be involved in the full project lifecycle, bring in innovative smart automation suggestion to testing new developments provide the anticipated functionality, to work independently and to ensure current functionality is unaffected.
• Deep hands‑on expertise in tools - Selenium, BDD, TestNG, Cucumber with good concepts of Java - OOPS concepts
• Good understanding of how to connect with Test Data - Selenium
• Awareness in creation of Framework / knowledge in updating the scenarios.
• Need exposure in usage of variables in Test Data. Knowledge in optimization of execution approaches.
• Need an individual performer for completing tasks.
• Capable to complete the tasks e2e on their own.
• Good to have - grid implementation, cucumber customization, multi browser implementation.
• Screening - Scratch in Selenium Framework. Certifications in Selenium would be an added advantage.
• Good command of SQL query and Database testing - Working knowledge
• Create quality test plans, test cases, scenarios & ensuring quality assurance for software development projects in various stages & managing process control as per standards.
• Exposure on functional Test Automation & hybrid, keyword-driven, data-driven, Behavior Driven, Fast automation frameworks.
• Hand‑on experience on continuous integration will be an added advantage., Exposure to TeamCity
• Hands‑on experience in creating automation scripts, functions, reusable components using VB Script., Java
• Good knowledge of JIRA Testing and defect Mgmt. tool with JIRA Zephyr Test Mgmt. Tool
• Analyze test cases thoroughly to ensure adequate coverage of requirements.
• Develop, maintain, and execute automated and manual test scripts for requirement/user story validation, integration, regression, performance and usability testing.
• Provide accurate and precise estimates for assigned task duration and work effort, along with confidence level, and foreseeable dependencies in Agile and waterfall.
• Responsible for test data conditioning
• Trace test cases and results back to specific user stories/requirements/quality risks.
• Plan and prepare metrics to ensure milestone are achieved for the planned release.
• Responsible for daily status reporting at project level
• Ability to prioritize multiple requests at same time.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience, working in similar roles across banking or services technology; Knowledge of Corporate banking and trade finance. Past working in Trade platforms is added advantage.
• Hands on experience with manual as well as test automation, test script creation and modification required.
• Working knowledge of QTP/ Selenium / Cucumber and JIRA
• Working knowledge of Agile, BDD frameworks
• Proven ability to lead local and remote QA teams while remaining accountable for hands on Testing.
• Extensive experience in Testing, ideally working in a split site environment.
• Strong knowledge of full software development and testing lifecycle.
• A strong commitment to quality and efficiency

Education

• Bachelor’s/University degree (in science, computers, information technology or engineering) or equivalent experience

Job Family Group

Technology

Job Family

Technology Quality

Time Type

Full time

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range

$94,300.00 - $141,500.00

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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