Who You Will Work With:

The Test Automation, Senior Specialist role will report to the Leader, Product Foundation, Money Movement. The Test Automation, Senior Specialist leads advanced automation testing for Interac’s products and services, with a strong focus on online and integration‑heavy solutions. This role designs and evolves integration automation frameworks and best practices to maximize test coverage while minimizing execution time and maintenance effort. The Senior Specialist enhances automation strategies to support microservices‑based architectures, end‑to‑end user flows, and database integrations, and develops non‑functional automation tests to validate service interactions, timeouts, and retries. Through definition of automation metrics and continuous evaluation of scripts, the role drives efficiency, quality, and scalability of automation across releases.

What You Will Do:

• Perform the automation testing functions & support for Interac Corp. products and services, with a focus on the Money Movement product.
• Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of what we build and how to test it.
• Design and document the Integration Automation Framework / document Integration Automation best practices with the goal of maximizing of test coverage and minimizing test cycles time via automation but reducing automation maintenance efforts/costs.
• Evaluate all scripts and recommending changes as per the requirements.
• Enhance the automation test strategy to incorporate microservices automation test strategy where it is relevant regarding Integration and end to end user process flow including all services dependencies and DB integration.
• Define automation metrics and the process for collecting and validating these metrics, monitor efficiency of the automation activities of the Integration team.
• Develop NFR automation tests targeting interactions between different services and components, timeouts, retries should be design per releases as and when needed
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What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years direct experience in software development with strong, hands-on experience in software automation testing, test case development, test execution, test results analysis, and test optimization.
• Experience in the creation, maintenance and optimization of automation frameworks including management of test reporting.
• Demonstrated experience in NUnit or JUnit.
• Experience working within a formal CI/CD pipeline.
• Strong knowledge of C#, JavaScript.
• Knowledge of Selenium WebDriver.
• API testing using POST man or similar.
• Knowledge with web applications architecture, APIs, SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with load testing using JMeter or similar.
• Knowledge and experience with Git/Stash
• Knowledge and experience with Jenkins, Bamboo
• Knowledge and experience of micro-services architecture regarding integration and functional automation tests
• Agile team and methodology experience; Kanban experience is desirable
• Eligibility to work for Interac Corp. in Canada in a full-time capacity.