Senior QA Automation Engineer – Java / REST Assured

Position: Senior QA Automation Engineer – Java / REST Assured

Location: Hybrid- 4days/week Onsite- Toronto, ON

Job type: Full-Time/Permanent Hiring

We are seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer with 5–10 years of experience in quality engineering and test automation, with strong hands-on expertise in Java, REST Assured, Selenium, API automation, and UI automation . The engineer will design scalable automation frameworks, integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, perform API/UI and database validation, and contribute to overall test strategy and quality engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, reusable, and maintainable automation frameworks using Java, REST Assured, Selenium WebDriver, and TestNG/JUnit .
• Build automated API test suites covering request/response validation, authentication, negative scenarios, contract validation, and backend verification.
• Develop UI automation for functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Perform database and backend validation using SQL .
• Integrate automated regression suites with Jenkins, Maven, Git, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, or similar CI/CD tools .
• Collaborate with developers, BAs, Product Owners, and Agile teams throughout the SDLC.
• Participate in test strategy, framework enhancements, code reviews, defect analysis, and release validation.
• Troubleshoot automation failures and perform root-cause analysis.
• Apply automation best practices including Page Object Model, data-driven testing, and BDD where applicable.

Required Skills

• Java
• REST Assured – Mandatory
• API Automation
• Selenium WebDriver
• TestNG / JUnit
• Automation Framework Development
• SQL / Database Testing
• Git / Bitbucket
• Maven
• Jenkins / CI/CD
• Agile / Scrum

Preferred Skills

• Cucumber / Gherkin / BDD
• Postman / Swagger
• Azure DevOps
• Banking / Financial Services / Payments
• Azure / AWS
• Kafka or messaging technologies