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The Opportunity
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 Ontario and are currently looking for an experienced Senior and/or Intermediate Test Automation Specialist - to help us do that! This role will be responsible for creating detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test automation frameworks, tests, and reporting all connected to a CI/CD pipeline.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Participate in requirement and design planning/review to ensure test plans are traceable to requirements.
- Design, develop and implement automated test scripts
- Design, develop and implement automated tests using the Appium toolset
- Manage the creation of test data through test scripts
- Perform verification testing
- Identify and document defects and follow through to their resolution
- Work closely with developers, project stakeholders and the management team to effectively assure delivery of a quality project
What you'll need
Qualifications
- 5+ years of testing experience across devices and platforms
- Experience in integrating test automation automation, preferably using open source tools, into a CI/CD pipeline
- Experience with Appium is strongly preferred
- Experience using various automation frameworks - data-driven, keyword driven, robot, cucumber
- Computer Science degree, Engineering degree, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience creating functional and integration tests
- Experience with SQL queries
- API testing experience using tools such as SoapUI, Postman, etc
- Experience working in Agile teams (Scrum preferred)
- Familiar with Agile frameworks and testing techniques such as ATDD or BDD is an asset
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.