QA Automation Engineer

WHO IS RATEHUB?

We’re a company on a mission. We are a unique Canadian Fintech that is the one-stop shop for all financial needs of the consumer: Save, Spend, Borrow, Invest, and Protect. Every single team member — from Product & Engineering to Sales & Marketing, Finance, Operations, and everything in between — is obsessed with one thing: helping Canadians make better financial choices. And we’re pretty great at it, too. Via our digital application technology and our award-winning in-house brokerages, we help over 2M Canadians per month make a positive impact on their finances. We have many unique businesses: a mortgage brokerage, a life insurance brokerage, a home and auto insurance brokerage, a mortgage originations and servicing business, a Financial Services Marketplace, and a content business across Ratehub and MoneySense. 365 days a year, we deliver our users the best online mortgage experience, personalized credit card and loan options, and cheaper auto and home insurance policies than they typically get from their existing financial adviser.

Changing how people make financial choices isn’t easy, though. We know that achieving our mission is full of challenges — challenges that can be complex and often unexpected but that are always interesting, rewarding, and fun to solve as a team. This is where you come in. We are on the hunt for the right kind of people to join us and help lead us forward to continued growth.

We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer (14 month contract with potential to become permanent) to join a cross-functional team of developers, product managers, and other quality engineers to test and deliver amazing products . The ideal candidate is a hands-on person who takes ownership of reliable automation, drives quality and efficiency through systems and processes, and collaborates with the existing team to build user-centric, high-quality experiences for Ratehub members. The role is based in downtown Toronto, but we’re also open to remote candidates.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Design to define test strategy and test plan to deliver high-quality, user-centric products
• Own testing plans, processes, and strategies to ensure testing is efficiently executed throughout the development lifecycle
• Design and maintain automated test suites to perform end-to-end testing including functional, regression, integration, and smoke testing
• Perform manual cross-browser testing for responsive design and compatibility, while taking initiative to automate as much as possible
• Troubleshoot and debug test failures; identify root causes and work with development teams to resolve issues
• Participate in best practice discussions and code reviews to suggest improvements to our processes, libraries, and ways of working across the QA and Engineering teams
• Contribute towards the release cycle and CI/CD pipeline; offering feedback and recommendations for quicker release cycles with an emphasis on automation
• Define and track quality metrics like test coverage, automation coverage, number of defects, etc, helping to identify gaps and areas for improvement

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3+ years of quality assurance and test engineering experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, test strategies, and best practices
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into automated test plans
• Proven ability to implement and evolve QA processes to get effective test coverage, and to scale testing efforts across multiple products
• Experience working in an agile development environment, following all the Scrum/Kanban ceremonies
• Proven track record in developing maintainable automated test suites
• High proficiency in test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress or equivalent
• High proficiency with Java, TypeScript, or equivalent language
• Proficient with source control, specifically git
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Curiosity and ability to learn quickly and adapt to a changing environment

Other skills we would love to see:

• Experience in integrating automated tests into a CI/CD pipeline using Devops tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions.
• Hands-on experience with JIRA and Confluence.
• Knowledge of Web Services protocols – JSON, HTTP, XML, SOAP etc. 
• Experience with API testing libraries and tools such as Rest Assured, PostMan, SoapUI, JMeter etc.
• Knowledge of mobile testing tools such as Appium.

OUR TECH STACK:

• QA Automation: PostMan, Selenium
• Back-end: Node/Express, PHP/Laravel, Java
• Front-end: Javascript/React, styled-components/CSS, Next.js
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDb, Redis
• Eventing/Pub-Sub: Kafka
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows
• Packaging and Deployment: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GCP/GKE
• Observability and Monitoring: New Relic, Heap

CULTURE FIT:

• Members first - we prioritise the interests and needs of our members above all else.We solve member pain points and focus on member satisfaction. We start with members, and end with the P&L.
• Growth mindset  - we set ambitious goals and challenge the status quo. We take responsible risks and are accountable for our actions.
• Better together - we are One team with One common goal. We make our footprint bigger than our foot, leave our egos at the door, support each other to achieve great results as One company. 
• Run after problems - we tackle problems head on and focus on finding solutions. Obstacles are seen as opportunities for growth and innovation. We have the hard conversations and choose the harder right over the easier wrong. And we do it with a smile.
• Measure Learn Iterate Innovate - we focus on getting things done. We measure what matters, iterate, learn, iterate many times in a data-driven way, which is how we will innovate.

Ratehub welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.