QA Automation Specialist

Job Posted 2025-04-12
Fortive
Toronto
Canada
Remote
Job Description
Description

The Automation Specialist will be responsible for implementing and maintaining the test automation within the scrum team along with manual and exploratory testing when needed.


Responsibilities:



  • Write well-designed, modular, and testable code.

  • Develop, improve, and extend reusable components and libraries.

  • Develop well-designed, modular, and testable code.

  • Identify test gaps and prioritize adding coverage based on areas of risk.

  • Works under minimal guidance from the senior individual in the team

  • Document defects in products and update resolution in the ticket management system, JIRA.

  • Take ownership of test failures and ensure the CI system is reliable.

  • Troubleshoot and debug automated test failures within the automation project.

  • Maintain knowledge of current testing approaches, tools and technologies.

  • Work with engineers to define and implement mechanisms to inject testing earlier into the software development process.

  • Identify and drive the adoption of best practices in code health, testing, testability, and maintainability.

  • Other job duties as assigned.


Qualifications



  • Experience creating automation scripts from the existing framework and enhance the framework as required.

  • Hands-on working experience with JavaScript frameworks like Cypress,Jest, WebdriverIO etc

  • Working experience with Selenium framework using C# or Java

  • Basic knowledge of API testing framework like Karate, RestAssured and Postman


Experience



  • 4-6 yrs experience in Software development with focus on Quality Assurance in Continuous Integration, Continuous testing environment

  • 3+ years of working experience in Test automation with exposure to CI/CD tools 


Education



  • Bachelor’s degree in Programming/Systems or Computer Science or another related field (or equivalent work experience)

  • Master’s Degree Preferred