Senior Automation & Performance Test Engineer - Contract

About Compugen Compugen is Canada's largest privately-owned Technology Ally. To innovate industries, transform businesses, connect communities, and drive meaningful change, we must think bigger, reach broader, and act bolder. Through knowledge, curiosity, and collaboration, Compugen helps organizations delivering experience by design. This is what it means to be human-centered and technology-enabled.

Dreaming, designing, and delivering isn't just a mantra for us - it's a way of life. We believe that technology is the conduit, but our people – they are the connection that truly makes the magic happen!

Our Culture We are a human-centered culture where we prioritize your well-being and are invested in helping you reach your fullest potential. We're not only focused on achieving our goals - we're dedicated to helping you achieve yours.

If you're relentlessly curious, driven to make a difference, and collaborative at the core, then you belong with us.

Position Overview: We are seeking an experienced Senior Automation & Performance Test Engineer to design, develop, and execute automated and performance testing solutions for enterprise applications. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing robust test automation frameworks, integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring applications meet functional, performance, scalability, and reliability standards.

This role requires strong hands-on experience in automation engineering, performance testing, cloud-based applications, and Agile delivery environments. The ideal candidate will work closely with development, infrastructure, and QA teams to identify defects, optimize application performance, and drive continuous improvements in software quality.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks and reusable automation components.
• Develop and execute automated tests for web applications, APIs, databases, integrations, regression, and end-to-end functionality.
• Design and conduct performance, load, stress, scalability, endurance, and benchmark testing.
• Establish performance baselines, quality gates, and application readiness criteria.
• Analyze test results, identify defects and performance bottlenecks, and collaborate with technical teams to resolve issues.
• Integrate automated functional and performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Python, JavaScript, and other relevant scripting languages.
• Perform API testing for REST and SOAP services, including validation of authentication and integration functionality.
• Create and maintain test strategies, test plans, execution reports, dashboards, and quality metrics.
• Manage test environments, test data, automation assets, and associated documentation.
• Utilize monitoring and observability tools to evaluate application and infrastructure performance.
• Identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency, automation coverage, and software quality.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Developers, Architects, Product Owners, and QA teams in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Participate in defect investigation, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  
  
  

Skills & Qualifications:

• Minimum 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Test Automation, or Quality Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience designing, developing, and maintaining test automation frameworks.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on performance testing experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
• Strong experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium WebDriver, Python/PyTest, REST Assured, and ReadyAPI.
• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, CloudTest, or equivalent solutions.
• Experience implementing automated functional and performance testing within CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar DevOps platforms.
• Experience testing cloud-hosted applications, preferably within Microsoft Azure environments.
• Strong scripting skills using Python, JavaScript, Shell Scripting, or similar languages.
• Experience with API testing, REST/SOAP services, JSON, XML, and microservices architectures.
• Working knowledge of SQL, database validation, and integration testing.
• Understanding of performance metrics, including response time, throughput, latency, concurrency, and resource utilization.
• Experience using source control tools such as Git, GitHub, or Azure Repos.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, or Azure Monitor.
• Knowledge of authentication technologies such as OAuth, JWT, MFA, and SAML.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and meet project deadlines.
• University degree or college diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
  
  
  

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with K6 performance testing.
• Experience with Appium for mobile application automation.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, message queues, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience working with AWS or Google Cloud Platform.
  
  
  

Equity Statement At Compugen, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We actively recruit from all groups, including women, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities. We recognize the importance of removing barriers to participation and provide accommodation upon request to all applicants throughout the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, our People & Culture representative will work with you to meet your needs in a confidential and respectful manner. We believe everyone deserves a seat at the table-and we are taking deliberate action to make this a reality.

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