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. ### Accountabilities: - 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 env…