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The Opportunity

Toronto, ON
Information Technology
Experienced
Full-time

PQA has been going strong since 1997! We take pride in our commitment to the communities across Canada in which we are located because we know there is more to life than work. Our team members enjoy opportunities for continuous learning and they work with leading edge companies, technologies and tools. As one of Canada's largest and most established independent software testing companies, we insist on working with 'quality' people who share our passion for doing the job right!

We are growing in Toronto, ON and are currently looking for an experienced Software Automation Architect to help us do that! Do you have 12+ years of experience in Software Testing? Are at least 9 of those years hands on test automation experience? If you answered yes to both, then apply today!

What you'll do

Responsibilities

  • Participate in the process of selling automated testing solutions to our clients.
  • Consult with our clients to provide thought leadership, advice and strategic direction / solutioning with respect to the implementation of test automation solutions.
  • Lead and support the delivery automated testing solutions;
  • Proactively resolve complex technical issues and demonstrates innovative thinking by regularly making recommendations for new approaches to technical work and broader issues resolution through continual improvement and adoption of new techniques and toolsets.
  • Able to work in a collaborative work environment with a passion for sharing knowledge and ideas with others; and
  • Excellent time management skills, able to manage multiple tasks with analytical and problem resolution skills, self-motivated and attention to detail are required soft skills.
  • Skilled at designing, creating and installing automated testing solutions with industry standard toolsets like UFT, LeanFT, Ranorex, TOSCA, Selenium, Appium, SOAtest, SOAP UI, CA Lisa, etc.
  • Responsible for management, leadership and recruiting of less senior team members.

What you'll need

Qualifications

  • A Post-Secondary graduate and 12+ years of experience in Software Testing, with 9+ years of hands on test automation experience, including designing frameworks
  • Passionate about software test automation with a sharp focus on moving testing to the left
  • Detail orientated while working in a versatile environment
  • Flexible and self-motivated
  • A continuous learner, up to date with industry standard/cutting edge Testing Trends
  • An automation framework guru, with strong background in development, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, Unit testing, API testing, and experience in automating testing across different types of applications including UI, COTS, Databases, ETL, Enterprise solutions such as SAP, Peoplesoft, Oracle at the least
  • Hands on Service Virtualization experience would be a great asset
  • Experience as a test automation solutions architect and software developer, ideally with experience in a variety of programming languages, tools and frameworks.
  • A desire to stay on the cutting edge of AI/ML techniques as they are applied to testing solutions and defect prevention.

We're looking for

Core Skills

Unit Testing Automated Software Testing Test Automation API Testing Designing Frameworks CI/CD pipelines

A little bit about us

PLATO

Who We Are
PLATO is a software testing and technology services company trusted by clients around the world.

In addition to providing our clients the highest quality software testing services, PLATO is creating careers in technology for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people from coast to coast to coast through our innovative train-and-employ model. Since 1997, we have been helping organizations all over the world reach their quality objectives by delivering scalable, proven, quality-centric managed services. Companies such as Apple, Suncor, TD Bank, Medavie, BCLC, LinkedIn, Boeing, and many others have gained considerable advantage from our Quality Assurance (QA), Testing, and eLearning expertise and experience.

We deliver specialized QA services to our clients with the goal of helping them increase profitability, boost customer satisfaction, manage development cycles and implement quality-centric solutions. We develop innovative approaches and solutions, designed to generate increased efficiencies, competitive advantage, and market share for our clients.

Are you interested?

Work With Us

At PQA Testing, we encourage our employees' personal career growth. We have plans in place to make sure that each employee is connected with a mentor to help guide them through their professional development, offer bi-monthly lunch & learns and give our employees chances to attend industry conferences.
Our employee's health and wellness is #1 here at PQA Testing. We offer health incentives for our full-time employees to help them reach their goals of a healthy lifestyle. PQA Testing is always organizing events that involve exercise and our annual Family Day BBQ is one event that definitely brings all of us closer.