Software Developer - Test Automation

Scotiabank•Toronto, ON

2d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Software developer - Test automation you’ll be working on our Platform Migration team at the Scotia Digital. You’ll work closely with multiple scrum teams to evangelize an emphasis on quality. You’ll contribute to highly applauded in house automation frameworks for UI, Microservices and Performance test.

Requirements

Experience developing test automation frameworks in Java, python or React JS
Written moderate to complex code/scripts to test systems.
Understanding of enterprise software design principles – architecture, design patterns, OOP
Comfortable working in a self-guided manner with the ability to prioritize tasks and manage your own time efficiently, without direct input or oversight
Good knowledge and experience in Java/ J2EE – at least 1+ years
Good knowledge and experience in Spring Boot – at least 2+ years
Strong knowledge of object-oriented software development best practices
Strong experience in developing Unit Tests and Integration Tests using testing frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, and RestAssured – at least 4 years
Experience working in a DevOps environment.
Experience with Java Build Tools: Maven or Gradle
Familiarity with OpenAPI Specification(OAS)/ Swagger, YAML, JSON
Knowledge/ experience in Java ORM Frameworks such as Hibernate, Spring DAO
Exposure to RDBMS such as Oracle or DB2.
Knowledge and experience with SQL queries

Nice To Haves

Experience building, integrating, and deploying web services (REST/SOAP/JSON/XML).
AI / ML exposure (e.g., using ML models for test optimization, anomaly detection, or data-driven testing).
Experience working with Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) — especially cloud-native testing tools, API Gateways, or container-based deployments.
Hands-on experience with Docker or other containerization technologies for service virtualization, environment setup, and scalable test execution.
Familiarity with Kubernetes for orchestrating containerized applications.
Experience using cloud DevOps tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, etc.).

Responsibilities

Responsible for designing, developing and maintaining a modular, extensible and reusable test automation framework to enable the continuous testing in a DevOps environment
Developing code to automate the testing (Unit/ Integration) of micro services (Rest APIs) and ensuring the adequate test coverage of the application code
Partner with development engineers during story and task breakdown to develop test approach that effectively cover the functional and performance characteristics of a feature
Building, maintaining, and improving the existing automation framework, test harness, and processes
Be/become a SME on usage of entire application suite, processes, workflows, etc
Working with Engineering team Management to improve the testing process