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Senior Python QA Automation Engineer

Luxoftabout 20 hours ago
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Senior Level
Full-Time

About the role

Applying to the position, you may join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. Our client is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds to ensure long-term sustainability. The company invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments. Client attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to: • Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders • Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment • Accelerated exposure and responsibility • Global career development opportunities • Being motivated every day by important social purpose and unshakable principles • A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance.

Responsibilities: • Design, build and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts with independence improving efficiency and test coverage to enable business capabilities, working in an Agile environment that includes business and T&D partner teams. • Drive a shift-left approach to software validation, guiding the team to apply automation themselves vs handing to "QA/QE" to automate • Participate in product design and development to ensure that quality is built in from the beginning. • Monitor the effectiveness of test automation and drive improvements through insights gained via analysis at various stages of test automation to ensure stability, efficiency, and scalability. • Define and execute test plans, test cases/scripts, identify defects, analyze test results and partner with developers to ensure that products or services meet quality standards. • Apply advanced understanding of engineering best practices and drive continuous improvement across the team through coaching and influencing • Adhere to Agile SDLC and execute related duties as required. • Foster collaboration and mentorship promoting a culture of feedback, learning and professional growth Maintain strong relationships with business partners, peer IT teams and vendor partners.

Mandatory Skills Description: • Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science). • 5+ years of relevant experience. • Experience with scripting with SQL Python Pytest • Experience with QE processes and methodologies, automated and manual test processes, test planning, test cases design, scripting, execution, automated test tools, regression testing. • Experience writing clean, usable, and efficient code. • Experience interacting and coordinating test activities amongst multiple teams and ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description: • AWS cloud testing experience • Exposure to performance and load testing

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