Job Title: Senior SDET / Quality Engineering Architect
Location: Mississauga, ON (Initially remote then hybrid)
Hiring Event: November 18–19
Role Overview: Senior SDET / Quality Engineering Architect to lead quality engineering strategy for high-throughput, low-latency trading platforms. The role involves designing scalable automation frameworks, integrating AI-driven testing, implementing performance engineering, and establishing automated quality gates across global engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, cloud-native test automation frameworks using Core Java, BDD/TDD, Cucumber, TestNG/JUnit.
- Drive shift-left and in-sprint automation across UI, APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems.
- Architect API, contract, and data validation testing using REST Assured, Pact, WireMock, SQL, and NoSQL.
- Integrate AI/GenAI-assisted testing, intelligent test generation, and self-healing automation.
- Lead performance, load, stress, latency, resilience, and failover testing using JMeter/Gatling.
- Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, Docker, and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
- Define quality metrics, dashboards, engineering standards, and automation best practices.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to distributed teams across North America and APAC.
Required Qualifications
- 8–12+ years of software development and quality engineering experience, including 3+ years in a Lead SDET, Principal SDET, or QA Architect role.
- Strong financial services, capital markets, FinTech, or trading platform experience.
- Expert-level Core Java, including multithreading, concurrency, OOP, and design patterns.
- Proven experience building automation frameworks from scratch.
- Hands-on expertise in Selenium/Playwright/Cypress, REST API testing, Rest Assured, and performance testing.
- Strong SQL/NoSQL data validation and experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.
- Experience with CI/CD, Git, Jenkins/Bitbucket, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Practical exposure to AI-assisted testing and LLM-driven test automation.
- Excellent architectural leadership, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.
Preferred Skills
- Java/Spring Boot development experience.
- Kafka, RabbitMQ, or IBM MQ; Pact contract testing.
- AWS/GCP, service mesh, and SAST/DAST security testing.
- Relevant ISTQB, cloud, or Java certifications.
Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or equivalent practical experience.
