Associate Quality Engineer

Associate Quality Engineer at TD

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours: 37.5

Line Of Business: Technology Solutions

Pay Details: $59,500 - $84,000 CAD

This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance.

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Job Description

As an Associate Quality Engineer, you will perform hands-on testing activities, including test creation and process support within a given functional area. This role focuses on supporting the delivery of quality solutions by automating tests and/or creating/enhancing automation frameworks.

• Contribute to test planning and performs hands-on test design/development/maintenance, test case automation, and test execution to achieve business outcomes.
• Integrate directly into a team’s continuous delivery process, augmenting the delivery of quality software and ensuring speed, agility, and risk management.
• Contribute to definition of test data and environment requirements.
• Analyze the end-to-end proposed solution (business requirements, design specification, architecture blueprints, etc.) to develop in-scope tests.
• Analyze, develop, debug, and maintain test suites (automated/manual), traceability matrices; and log defects/assist in defect resolution, as required.
• Provide quick feedback throughout the development and design process; analyzes / reports on the test results to confirm that the quality of the intended solution is met.
• Proven ability to use tools that support automation activities and management (e.g., test automation frameworks, test management tools, etc.).
• Leverage virtual assets to support virtualization of any incomplete / unavailable code, service, database, etc.
• Have basic knowledge of test data management to reuse automated test data provisioning capabilities to be able to adopt a standard test data tool set.
• Effectively leverage tools and engineering practices (DevOps tools and processes, source code management, Service Virtualization, monitoring tools, etc.).
• Implement functional and/or non-functional automation (performance, readiness / reliability testing (ORT), accessibility, security) approach, frameworks, including script development and execution, and ensure automated tests are integrated into the Continuous Integration (CI), delivery, and testing (CI/CD/CT) pipelines.
• Responsible for documenting and supporting the proactive identification of end-to-end test solution designs, including updating knowledge bases and identifying early automation opportunities.
• Work collaboratively with the development team to define and validate user stories, acceptance criteria, and Definition of Done (DoD) / Ready (DoR).
• Apply the principles of behavior / Test Driven Development (BDD / TDD) and focus on value-driven outcomes.
• Provide feedback, reporting and analytics on overall quality / performance, user experience, and future bug prevention.
• Actively participates in Practices' communities of Interest.
• May be involved in Proof of Concepts (POCs) to evaluate new technologies geared towards better, faster, more secure testing activities (such as Service Virtualization, DevOps, BDD, Test Data Management).

Experience And/or Education

• BS degree in Computer Science or related Engineering discipline; or equivalent practical experience.
• Up to 2 years of experience in Quality Engineering or Software Testing using industry standard tools.
• Strong knowledge of Core-Java concepts (OOP, collections, exception handling).
• Hands-on experience with Selenium for web automation.
• Good hold of Cucumber framework for managing and executing test cases.
• Experience in REST Assured for API testing and automation.
• Understanding of SDLC, STLC and Agile methodologies.
• Ability to analyze requirements and convert those into test scenarios.

Nice to have:

• Exposure to CI/CD tools like Jenkins.
• Basic knowledge of Git and version control systems.

Additional Information

• Foundational knowledge of specific domain and quality engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes, and procedures.
• Solid knowledge of coding practices, testing, and debugging to develop and maintain resilient automated test scripts; hands-on experience writing automated scripts using industry standard frameworks.
• Hands-on debugging and problem-solving skills; investigates and analyzes potential solutions to problems.
• Foundational knowledge of in scope TD business and systems, practices, business / organization, Bank standards.
• Ability to drive work effort, own tasks, and estimate and prioritize activities for medium to moderately complex tasks.
• Leverage new / advanced techniques and approaches in testing and automation.
• Use existing procedures to solve routine problems; makes limited exceptions.
• Collaborative team player.
• Report to a Practice lead.

Who We Are

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

Our Total Rewards Package

Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs. Learn more

Colleague Development

If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities.

If you’re passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

Training & Onboarding

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process

We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation

Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Key skills/competency

• Test Automation
• Selenium
• Core Java
• Cucumber Framework
• REST Assured
• API Testing
• SDLC/STLC
• Agile Methodologies
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Defect Management