QA Automation Engineer

Job ID: HYC2026010 Contract Remote within Canada (Occasional travel to Edmonton, Alberta if required)

About the Role

We are seeking experienced QA Automation Engineers to support large-scale digital transformation, service innovation, and modernization initiatives within a public sector environment. The QA Automation Engineer will work closely with cross-functional agile product teams to ensure high-quality delivery of modern digital services through automation, testing strategy, and quality engineering best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and automation test suites

• Create automation test plans, test cases, and test scenarios for digital applications and services

• Implement end-to-end, regression, functional, API, load, performance, and security testing strategies

• Develop reusable automation components and support automation scalability across projects

• Support Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) practices

• Collaborate with developers, product owners, business analysts, and QA teams in agile sprint-based delivery environments

• Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, testing cycles, and release activities

• Ensure continuous quality validation throughout the software development lifecycle

• Build and maintain automation scripts integrated with CI/CD pipelines

• Support automated reporting, test metrics collection, and quality dashboards

• Contribute to automation standards, reusable frameworks, and testing best practices

• Perform API testing and validation for integrated digital services

• Design and execute load testing, performance testing, and security testing scenarios

• Identify defects, analyze root causes, and collaborate with development teams for resolution

• Prepare and maintain automation documentation, test artifacts, reports, and testing metrics

• Support quality governance, defect tracking, and testing standards across projects

Requirements

• QualificationBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field. Equivalent experience may be considered.

• Experience4+ Years

Required Skills

• 4+ years experience creating and modifying automation test scripts

• 3+ years experience preparing automation test plans and automation testing strategies

• 3+ years experience working with automation testing frameworks

• 2+ years experience with GitHub or version control tools

• 3+ years experience with performance testing, load testing, security testing, or end-to-end testing

• 2+ years hands-on coding experience developing automation scripts

• Strong experience with QA automation tools and frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)

• Experience developing and executing automated test suites

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

• Strong debugging and analytical skills

• Familiarity with CI/CD-integrated testing practices

• Experience with API testing tools and frameworks (Nice to Have)

• Experience with Cypress (Nice to Have)

• Experience with Cucumber and/or Gherkin (Nice to Have)

• Experience with Jira Xray (Nice to Have)

• Experience establishing automation testing metrics and reporting dashboards (Nice to Have)

• Experience implementing QA automation standards and best practices (Nice to Have)

• Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for large enterprise applications (Nice to Have)

• Public sector or large enterprise digital transformation experience (Nice to Have)

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