Test Automation Consultant

Toronto, ON
On-site
Posted Oct 9, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Contract
Experience level: Lead · 10+ years
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Application method: Direct apply is available

Job summary

Define and govern enterprise-scale test automation architecture, and develop reusable TypeScript and Playwright frameworks for web and desktop applications. Integrate automation with CI/CD and AI-assisted testing approaches, while guiding teams, mentoring engineers, and communicating strategy and outcomes to stakeholders.

Job details

Job Title: Test Automation Architect Contract Toronto, ON Job summary: We are seeking a Test Automation Architect to define, design, and govern enterprise-scale automation solutions. The role requires strong hands-on expertise in TypeScript, Playwright, and Helenium, along with Prompt Engineering capabilities to leverage AI-driven testing and productivity use cases. The candidate must also demonstrate excellent stakeholder communication skills to drive automation strategy and quality outcomes. Key Responsibilities Automation Architecture & Strategy • 10-12 years of experience in Test Automation and a minimum of 3 years on Microsoft Playwright automation tool. • Own and define end-to-end test automation architecture across web and desktop applications. • Design scalable, reusable, and maintainable automation frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript. • Define automation standards, best practices, coding guidelines, and governance models. • Evaluate applications and recommend tools, frameworks, and AI-assisted automation approaches. Hands-on Automation Development • Develop and enhance TypeScript-based automation frameworks using strong object-oriented and modular design principles. • Build and maintain Playwright automation frameworks for modern web applications. • Create reusable automation components, fixtures, utilities, and libraries. • Implement reliable locator strategies, synchronization, error handling, and reporting. • Enable parallel and distributed execution to optimize execution cycles. AI & Prompt Engineering • Apply Prompt Engineering techniques to improve test design, test-data generation, defect analysis, and automation productivity. • Leverage AI-assisted tools for test-case generation, exploratory testing support, and automation optimization. • Validate AI-generated tests and automation code for accuracy, coverage, maintainability, and compliance with framework standards. • Collaborate with teams to integrate AI-driven testing approaches into existing automation frameworks. CI/CD & Tool Integration • Integrate automation frameworks with CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms. • Enable automated test execution, reporting, and defect traceability. • Support environment-based, parallel, and scheduled execution. • Track automation metrics, execution stability, maintenance effort, and ROI. Stakeholder Communication & Leadership • Act as the automation subject-matter expert for internal and external stakeholders. • Collaborate with product owners, architects, developers, DevOps engineers, and business teams. • Clearly communicate automation strategy, progress, risks, dependencies, and value to senior leadership. • Support estimation, planning, solutioning, and proposal preparation for automation initiatives. Mentoring & Governance • Mentor automation engineers and guide teams on framework usage and best practices. • Conduct code reviews and enforce TypeScript, Playwright, and automation quality standards. • Govern automation implementation and execution across projects to ensure consistency and quality. Mandatory Skills: Must Have • TypeScript: Mandatory Strong hands-on experience in TypeScript, including types, interfaces, classes, modules, promises, asynchronous programming, error handling, and reusable framework development. • Playwright: Mandatory Hands-on experience building and maintaining Playwright frameworks using TypeScript, including fixtures, hooks, locators, assertions, browser contexts, storage state, tracing, retries, reporting, parallel execution, and sharding. • Test Automation Framework Design Experience designing custom, hybrid, modular, and enterprise-scale automation frameworks. • Helenium Experience with self-healing automation concepts, dynamic locator recovery, and integration with existing automation frameworks. • Prompt Engineering Experience applying structured prompts to test design, test-data generation, defect analysis, automation development, and quality-engineering use cases. • Experience creating reusable automation components, utilities, fixtures, libraries, and reporting solutions. • Experience enabling parallel and distributed test execution. • CI/CD integration experience with Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms. • Test strategy, test planning, automation estimation, and automation-candidate identification. • Strong stakeholder communication and presentation skills. Nice to Have • API automation experience for REST services. • Insurance domain experience, including exposure to quote, policy, billing, claims, renewals, or endorsements. • RAG knowledge, including document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, retrieval relevance, groundedness, and hallucination testing. • Exposure to GenAI and LLM application testing. • Performance or other non-functional testing exposure. • Agile and DevOps delivery experience. • Enterprise-scale or multi-application automation experience. • Docker or cloud-based test-execution exposure.

What you’ll do

Requirements

Requires 10–12 years of test automation experience, including at least three years with Playwright, strong hands-on TypeScript skills, and experience designing enterprise-scale frameworks. Candidates should also have experience with Helenium, prompt engineering, CI/CD integration, parallel execution, test strategy, and stakeholder communication.