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Client: Government Type: Contract Role: Senior QA Tester Term: 1 Year extension option Pay Rate: $70.00 Start date: 2-3 weeks Location: Toronto / Hybrid Req ID: RQ08848 Requirements: What you''ll need Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications: Automation Testing Expertise Test Automation Frameworks : Proficient in designing, implementing, and maintaining automation test frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Appium, BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, JUnit, or similar tools) for functional and regression testing across multiple platforms. Scripting & Programming Languages: Strong programming skills in languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, NestJS etc. with the ability to write robust and reusable automation scripts. Test Case Automation: Demonstrated experience in automating test cases for complex, large-scale web applications, mobile application and RESTful API implementation, ensuring high test coverages. CI/CD Integration: Hands-on experience integrating automated tests into continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar. Performance & Load Testing: Experience in implementing automated performance and load testing using tools like JMeter, Python Locust, or similar, ensuring scalability and performance benchmarks are met. Cross-Browser and Cross-Platform Testing: Expertise in automating cross-browser and cross-platform tests to ensure consistent performance and functionality across different browsers, devices, and operating systems. Test Data Management: Proficient in managing test data for automated tests, including data setup, data selection and data validation for diverse test scenarios. Quality Assurance Practices Test Strategy & Planning: Experience in defining and executing test strategies, including the creation of comprehensive test plans and test cases based on system requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Functional and Non-Functional Testing: In-depth understanding of functional testing, including smoke, sanity, regression, and integration testing, as well as non-functional testing like security, usability, and load testing. Bug Tracking and Reporting: Proficient in using bug tracking tools (e.g., Jira or Similar) to report, track, and manage defects through their lifecycle, ensuring clear communication with developers and product teams. Test Coverage Analysis: Expertise in analyzing and ensuring adequate test coverage, identifying gaps, and enhancing test cases to improve overall test effectiveness. Manual Testing Expertise: While automation is key, must also have strong experience with manual testing, especially for exploratory testing, edge cases, and high-risk areas not covered by automation. Technical Expertise & Tooling Version Control Systems: Strong understanding and experience using version control tools like Git, SVN, or similar for source code management, including branching, merging, and resolving conflicts. API Testing & Automation: Experience in API testing and automation using tools like Postman, SoapUI, or similar for testing RESTful and SOAP APIs. Database & SQL Skills: Experience in writing and executing SQL queries to verify backend data and ensure that the automated tests are validating data integrity and correctness in databases. Cloud & Virtualization: Familiarity with cloud-based platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS Cloud) and virtualization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) for setting up and managing test environments. Web and Mobile Application Testing: Experience in automating tests for web application testing using BrowserStack or similar and mobile applications testing, specifically open source digital identity wallets using tools like Appium, Espresso, or similar for iOS and Android testing. Security Testing: Understanding of security testing practices, including basic knowledge of OWASP Top 10, secure coding practices, and automated security testing tools. Verifiable Credentials and Digital Wallet: Understanding of world wide web consortium (W3C) verifiable credentials (VC) model, decentralized identifiers (DIDs), JSON-LD, zero-knowledge proofs, Open ID Connect (OIDC), Oauth2, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), JSON Web Signatures (JWS), etc., and Digital Identity standards and frameworks such as the PCTF, NIST and eIDAS etc. Must Have: Proficient in designing, implementing, and maintaining automation test frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Appium, BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, JUnit, or similar tools) Demonstrated experience in automating test cases for complex, large-scale web applications, mobile application and RESTful API implementation, ensuring high test coverages. Expertise in automating cross-browser and cross-platform tests to ensure consistent performance and functionality across different browsers, devices, and operating systems. Experience in automating tests for web application testing using BrowserStack or similar and mobile applications testing, specifically open-source digital identity wallets using tools like Appium, Espresso, or similar for iOS and Android testing. Verifiable Credentials and Digital Wallet PREFERRED SKILLS Test Automation Test Strategy RESTful API CI/CD HOW TO APPLY Patrick Marsan is hiring for this position. Apply to this position through LinkedIn Easy Apply or Email us at: talentwirehead.com Interested in working with us in the future? Privately share your profile with us: talentwirehead.com Follow Wirehead on LinkedIn We thank all candidates for their interest but advise that only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted directly. Rest assured that your resume will be kept on our database and will be considered for all future opportunities. Applicants must be authorized to work in Canada. Copyright 2007 - 2025 | Wirehead Talent | All rights reserved