Title: Senior Quality Assurance Specialist Duration: 1.5 year Optional Extension: 6 months Security Clearance: Consultant must have the ability to obtain: Reliability Status (required) – processed by the CLIENT if selected to hire ) (Consultant must reside in Canada for a minimum of 5 years to be eligible to apply for Canada Secret Security Clearance.) Work Location: Remote JOB DESCRIPTION: The Consultant will be responsible for providing the following Services to the Bank: Under the direction of the Assistant Director, Collateral Management Application Services:

• Review the automation framework and practices already adopted by the application support team and recommend improvements, where needed
• Facilitate discussions on new testing toolchain, technologies and automation practices including potential AI-enabled testing approaches
• Develop and implement QA automation scripts to accelerate the adoption of QA automation, leveraging manual test cases, regression scenarios, and performance testing requirements
• Contribute to other quality assurance areas including manual testing, integration testing and performance testing
• Enhance the quality and reliability of operational procedures by strengthening automated test coverage, ensuring test data readiness, and integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Perform other related activities and deliverables as required

Required Qualifications & Skills: The Consultant should have the following qualifications and skills:

• A minimum of eight (8) years of recent demonstrated work experience in testing web applications, third-party applications and system integrations
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience developing, maintaining, deploying, and executing automated test scripts.
• Demonstrated experience in test automation frameworks such as Cypress
• Demonstrated experience in DevOps (Source code control, Continuous Integration) tools such as Jenkins
• Demonstrated experience analyzing test results, troubleshooting automation failures, and improving test stability

Additional Qualifications: The following will also be considered:

• Experience with test management and reporting tools such as Allure TestOps
• Knowledge of integration testing and API testing tools such as Postman
• Demonstrated experience with AI-enabled development or testing tools such as GitHub Copilot
• Demonstrated experience working in a financial services, regulated, or mission-critical application environment would be considered an asset