About the role
Job Title: Automation Lead
Location: Toronto, ON, Hybrid role (EQ Bank Tower, 2200-25 Ontario Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5A 0Y9) Duration : Long Term Contract
Role Overview
The Automation Lead will lead the design, implementation, and evolution of scalable test automation solutions across UI, API, and mobile platforms. This role partners closely with engineering and quality leadership to embed quality early in the development lifecycle, drive automation strategy, and elevate overall quality engineering practices.
Key Responsibilities
Automation Architecture & Strategy Design and implement scalable automation frameworks and reusable test components across UI, API, and mobile platforms. Create, maintain, and optimize CI/CD-integrated automated test pipelines and tooling for continuous feedback. Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews, contributing from a testability and quality perspective. Own and drive non-functional testing initiatives such as integration testing, and contribute to performance and resiliency testing as required.
Quality Engineering & Planning
Lead quality planning efforts for complex features and integrations, ensuring risk-based test coverage. Partner with Lead QE to define test scope, provide effort estimates, and contribute to risk assessments. Collaborate with development teams to embed quality early using test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD) practices. Act as the primary point of contact for defect triage, root cause analysis, and data-driven quality reporting. Escalate quality risks and issues to the QE Manager with appropriate context and recommended solutions.
Continuous Improvement & Governance
Drive continuous improvements in quality engineering practices, automation tooling, standards, and documentation. Develop and maintain quality metrics, reporting on test coverage, defect trends, and automation effectiveness. Contribute to the configuration, maintenance, and stability of test environments and test data sets.
Mentorship & Collaboration
Mentor and support junior QEs by reviewing test cases, automation code, and providing constructive feedback. Support UAT activities by coordinating testing efforts, reproducing issues, and ensuring end-to-end test traceability.
Qualifications & Skill Set
Required Experience & Education 10+ years of experience in Software Quality Engineering or Test Automation roles. 8+ years of experience in UI and API automation using tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber (BDD), Postman, and JavaScript/Java-based frameworks. University Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
Technical Skills
Solid hands-on experience in microservices testing and test strategies involving service contracts, API gateways, and distributed systems. Hands-on experience with mobile testing frameworks such as Appium and test automation for iOS and Android. Strong programming skills in Java and/or JavaScript, with the ability to build and debug automation solutions from scratch. Deep understanding of Agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, and DevOps tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub). Working knowledge of service virtualization tools (eg: Parasoft, SmartBear, IBM Rational Tester) and log analysis platforms (eg: Kibana, Splunk). Proficient in writing SQL queries and validating back-end database transactions. Comfort working across Agile delivery models, with strong awareness of shift-left testing and in-sprint quality practices. Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr, TestRail, Xray, and test management best practices.
Nice-to-Have Skills
Experience with Temenos, Vision Plus, or other core banking platforms. Experience working with test data management tools such as Delphix or CA TDM. Exposure to cloud-native architectures and containerization (Docker). Familiarity with performance, accessibility, and security testing tools.
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About BURGEON IT SERVICES
Burgeon is a provider of technical and IT staff augmentation solutions. We are in business to help you maintain your competitive advantage by cost-effectively delivering highly skilled consultants when and how you need them most.
Burgeon is located in USA, AUSTRALIA & INDIA.
Burgeon offers Contract, Contract-to-Hire, Direct Hire and Payroll Services to companies of all sizes.
Burgeon understands the reaction time required to consistently provide companies with the technical resources necessary for growth. Burgeon places heavy emphasis on internal hiring, database technology integration, ongoing internal training and customer service. Our goal is to build a working relationship with you that is mutually beneficial. As a result, we are highly motivated to consistently deliver the best consultants and the best customer service available.
Burgeon has earned a reputation amongst companies and consultants as being fair dealing and highly customer service oriented. We invite you to experience the difference working with Burgeon can make.
Our Culture
Burgeon has a unique culture and a very distinct, progressive, and professional attitude. We are results driven and passionate about matching the right people with the right companies. We take pride in providing quality consultants to reputable clients in order to ensure a mutually beneficial relationship. We fully understand the competitiveness of our business and rely on each other to maintain an adaptable, professional atmosphere. Our employees work in a fast-paced environment focused on goal setting and accomplishing those goals.
Vision
To provide the highest quality IT resources for small, medium, and Fortune 500 companies.
Mission
At Burgeon we are passionate about matching great people with great companies.
Values
Achieving our mission requires intelligent, energetic and committed people who possess:
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About the role
Job Title: Automation Lead
Location: Toronto, ON, Hybrid role (EQ Bank Tower, 2200-25 Ontario Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5A 0Y9) Duration : Long Term Contract
Role Overview
The Automation Lead will lead the design, implementation, and evolution of scalable test automation solutions across UI, API, and mobile platforms. This role partners closely with engineering and quality leadership to embed quality early in the development lifecycle, drive automation strategy, and elevate overall quality engineering practices.
Key Responsibilities
Automation Architecture & Strategy Design and implement scalable automation frameworks and reusable test components across UI, API, and mobile platforms. Create, maintain, and optimize CI/CD-integrated automated test pipelines and tooling for continuous feedback. Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews, contributing from a testability and quality perspective. Own and drive non-functional testing initiatives such as integration testing, and contribute to performance and resiliency testing as required.
Quality Engineering & Planning
Lead quality planning efforts for complex features and integrations, ensuring risk-based test coverage. Partner with Lead QE to define test scope, provide effort estimates, and contribute to risk assessments. Collaborate with development teams to embed quality early using test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD) practices. Act as the primary point of contact for defect triage, root cause analysis, and data-driven quality reporting. Escalate quality risks and issues to the QE Manager with appropriate context and recommended solutions.
Continuous Improvement & Governance
Drive continuous improvements in quality engineering practices, automation tooling, standards, and documentation. Develop and maintain quality metrics, reporting on test coverage, defect trends, and automation effectiveness. Contribute to the configuration, maintenance, and stability of test environments and test data sets.
Mentorship & Collaboration
Mentor and support junior QEs by reviewing test cases, automation code, and providing constructive feedback. Support UAT activities by coordinating testing efforts, reproducing issues, and ensuring end-to-end test traceability.
Qualifications & Skill Set
Required Experience & Education 10+ years of experience in Software Quality Engineering or Test Automation roles. 8+ years of experience in UI and API automation using tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber (BDD), Postman, and JavaScript/Java-based frameworks. University Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
Technical Skills
Solid hands-on experience in microservices testing and test strategies involving service contracts, API gateways, and distributed systems. Hands-on experience with mobile testing frameworks such as Appium and test automation for iOS and Android. Strong programming skills in Java and/or JavaScript, with the ability to build and debug automation solutions from scratch. Deep understanding of Agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, and DevOps tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub). Working knowledge of service virtualization tools (eg: Parasoft, SmartBear, IBM Rational Tester) and log analysis platforms (eg: Kibana, Splunk). Proficient in writing SQL queries and validating back-end database transactions. Comfort working across Agile delivery models, with strong awareness of shift-left testing and in-sprint quality practices. Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr, TestRail, Xray, and test management best practices.
Nice-to-Have Skills
Experience with Temenos, Vision Plus, or other core banking platforms. Experience working with test data management tools such as Delphix or CA TDM. Exposure to cloud-native architectures and containerization (Docker). Familiarity with performance, accessibility, and security testing tools.
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About BURGEON IT SERVICES
Burgeon is a provider of technical and IT staff augmentation solutions. We are in business to help you maintain your competitive advantage by cost-effectively delivering highly skilled consultants when and how you need them most.
Burgeon is located in USA, AUSTRALIA & INDIA.
Burgeon offers Contract, Contract-to-Hire, Direct Hire and Payroll Services to companies of all sizes.
Burgeon understands the reaction time required to consistently provide companies with the technical resources necessary for growth. Burgeon places heavy emphasis on internal hiring, database technology integration, ongoing internal training and customer service. Our goal is to build a working relationship with you that is mutually beneficial. As a result, we are highly motivated to consistently deliver the best consultants and the best customer service available.
Burgeon has earned a reputation amongst companies and consultants as being fair dealing and highly customer service oriented. We invite you to experience the difference working with Burgeon can make.
Our Culture
Burgeon has a unique culture and a very distinct, progressive, and professional attitude. We are results driven and passionate about matching the right people with the right companies. We take pride in providing quality consultants to reputable clients in order to ensure a mutually beneficial relationship. We fully understand the competitiveness of our business and rely on each other to maintain an adaptable, professional atmosphere. Our employees work in a fast-paced environment focused on goal setting and accomplishing those goals.
Vision
To provide the highest quality IT resources for small, medium, and Fortune 500 companies.
Mission
At Burgeon we are passionate about matching great people with great companies.
Values
Achieving our mission requires intelligent, energetic and committed people who possess: