Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Specialist based in Canada.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced QA professional to lead and enhance testing practices within a complex application environment. The role focuses on driving automation maturity, improving software quality processes, and implementing modern testing strategies across web applications, third-party systems, and integrations. You will play a key role in evaluating existing frameworks, introducing innovative testing technologies, and strengthening CI/CD-driven quality practices. Working in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, you will contribute to both strategic quality initiatives and hands-on testing activities. This position offers significant impact, exposure to emerging AI-enabled testing capabilities, and the opportunity to shape the future of quality engineering practices within mission-critical systems.

• Review existing test automation frameworks and QA practices, identifying opportunities to improve scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Recommend and implement modern testing methodologies, tools, and automation strategies, including AI-assisted testing approaches.
• Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts for web applications, integrations, and third-party platforms.
• Expand automated test coverage by leveraging manual test cases, regression scenarios, and performance testing requirements.
• Contribute to manual testing, integration testing, system validation, and performance testing activities as required.
• Analyze test results, investigate automation failures, and implement solutions to improve test stability and execution reliability.
• Strengthen operational quality by ensuring test data readiness and integrating automated testing processes into CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with technical teams to promote best practices in quality engineering and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support additional testing-related activities and deliverables in alignment with project objectives and timelines.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of recent experience testing web applications, third-party solutions, and system integrations.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience developing, maintaining, deploying, and executing automated test scripts.
• Strong expertise with test automation frameworks, particularly Cypress.
• Proven experience analyzing test execution results, troubleshooting automation issues, and improving framework stability.
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD tools, including Jenkins and source code management processes.
• Experience with test management and reporting platforms such as Allure TestOps is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with integration and API testing tools, including Postman.
• Exposure to AI-enabled development or testing tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar technologies is considered an asset.
• Experience working in financial services, regulated industries, or mission-critical environments would be advantageous.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within cross-functional teams.

Benefits

• Long-term contract opportunity with an initial duration of 18 months.
• Opportunity to influence and modernize QA automation strategies and testing practices.
• Exposure to cutting-edge automation technologies and AI-assisted testing approaches.
• Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams and complex enterprise systems.
• Hands-on involvement in high-impact, mission-critical projects.
• Professional growth opportunities through exposure to modern DevOps and quality engineering methodologies.
• Inclusive and diverse workplace committed to equal opportunity and professional development.
• Flexible environment that encourages innovation and continuous improvement.