Lead Quality Engineer

Scotiabank • Toronto, ON

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Business Banking is seeking a Test Automation Engineer to partner with Business, Product, and Engineering teams to deliver quality tested technical solutions aligned to Business Banking needs and requirements for key modernization initiatives. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining test automation frameworks and associated tools while providing testing support to the engineering team with the shared goal of ensuring quality for ongoing delivery. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Development, Business Banking Domain, you will partner with Business, engineering, product, security, data, infrastructure, and other application teams to deliver production-ready solutions aligned to enterprise standards for security, resiliency, scalability, availability, and regulatory compliance. You will contribute to the overall success of the Business Banking digital unit, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s strategies and objectives. You will ensure all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in test automation having worked with frameworks/tools including Selenium, Jave, Playright using Java or Node JS and JavaScript’s
• Competent building test suites in modern programming languages ((Java or Node.js/TypeScript)
• Hands on experience Automating mobile, web-based applications, and API web services.
• Expertise in using API tools like SOAP UI, Postman, or something similar.
• Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot,) with the ability to automate test scripts
• You are an expert on QA processes with hands-on experience preparing testing artifacts such as test plan, strategy, Test cases, status reports and reporting/testing defects
• Clear communication and ability to collaborate across engineering and non-technical partners.
• Customer-first mindset to optimize for secure, reliable outcomes.
• Deep knowledge of Agile principles, and the flexibility to adapt your experience to new and evolving environments including experience with Jira and Confluence
• Familiar with deployment tools such as Bitbucket
• Business Banking or broader financial services domain experience
• Prior work experience with Scotiabank, preferably working in other teams within Scotia Digital
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Customer-first mindset with strong risk awareness; bias for clarity, quality, and execution.
• Collaborative, proactive, and improvement-driven; comfortable operating across ambiguity and bringing structure to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Be an advocate for quality in the project lifecycle with an AI mindset for delivering quality and speedy test results.
• Design, develop and maintain a modular, extensible, and reusable test automation framework to enable continuous testing in an agile environment.
• Collaborate closely with other team members to develop test approach that effectively covers the functional performance characteristics of features in the applications.
• Manage testing by developing test strategies, preparing test documentation and executing test activities for multiple, parallel initiatives.
• Perform various types of testing including Functional testing, Accessibility testing, User interface testing, Cross-platform testing, and Content testing.
• Report defects and work closely with the team so that solutions can be determined, prioritized, and scheduled.
• Provide regular status updates and call out risks and issues to release and project timelines.
• Learn and leverage new tools and methodologies for Quality Assurance, on a continuous basis.
• Deliver production-quality software (services, APIs, and web applications) with strong testing fundamentals.
• Introduce and influence overall process improvements and act as an agent for change to the organization.
• Provide testing support for post production and contribute to ongoing production support health by partnering with engineering teams on ticket triage, root-cause analysis support and prioritization of testing operational fixes.
• Recommend platform and operational improvements by analyzing current practices, identifying waste/rework, and proposing pragmatic enhancements.
• Collaborate with Product, Business Analysts, and Production Support to clarify requirements, scope work, and deliver iteratively.

Benefits

• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Free tea & coffee, universal washrooms, and lots of space for team collaboration.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior