Automation API Tester

Location Address: Hybrid - Toronto - expected to come into office 1-2 times/week (mostly Wednesdays, when there is a bigger team meeting some Mondays required) – needs candidates in GTA
Contract Duration: ASAP to Oct 31, 2023 - approx. 3.5 months
Unsure about possibility of extension, if there are projects in sight then HM retains strongest resources
Number of Positions: 1
Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week


Typical Day in Role:
• Collaborate closely with a team of backend API developers, business system analysts, developers, and
architects to work on both new features and incremental improvements
• Develop and update automated test scenarios
• Bring new ideas on how to improve the test framework
• Create robust, repeatable automated testing solutions for our production software
• Develop both positive and negative test scenarios while working with business system analysts, developers,
and technical leads to test new features
• Help triage any issues automated tests uncover or any issue raised by production support, and
communicating closely with the development team
• Work on a large-scale product and enriching the banking experience for millions of
customers.
• Develop automated testing including tools and frameworks.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 5+ experience as an Automation API Tester, preferably within FI/banking
2) 5+ years of experience directly writing automation code in Java without any testing tools (e.g. SOAP UI)
3) 5+ years’ experience in developing Integration Tests using testing frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, and RestAssured

Main Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) 3+ years of testing Restful APIs with Postman
2) 3+ years of experience in Load Testing (preferably with Locust and LoadRunner)
3) Experience in building, integrating and deploying web services (REST/ SOAP/JSON/XML)
4) Working knowledge of SQL
5) Familiarity with OpenAPI Specification (OAS)/ Swagger, YAML, JSON
6) Exposure to RDBMS such as Oracle or DB2. Knowledge and experience with SQL queries

Soft Skills Required:
- Excellent English verbal and written communication skills are essential
- Ability to distil technical details into simple terms; ability to influence decision making across stakeholders

Education:
- Bachelors or equivalent in computer science or related field is preferred

Best VS. Average Candidate:
Ideal candidate needs to be very strong in Java, strong in automation testing

Candidate Review & Selection
2 rounds - MS Teams Video Interviews
1st round 30 minutes – verbal interview probing on technical skills with the technical team (lead and developer)
2nd round 45 minutes – Technical interview with Codility test – team and HM will join at start and end to introduce - for codility 1 question – in Java