Plan Automation jobs in Richmond Hill, ON

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Our employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.

Pay at Intact is about much more than just salary.

• Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model

• Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year

• Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more

• Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)

Salary range (but not limited to):

80,700 - 98,700

Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance):

10%

As part of our commitment to Win As A Team, we share our success with employees through our annual bonus plan and Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.

Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.

Salary for the candidate will be determined taking into consideration a number of factors including: experience, skills, qualifications, anticipated contribution to role, internal equity, etc. The salary range presented above is based on a 35-hour workweek and would represent a majority of different candidate profiles. However, we encourage candidates who may fall outside of this range to apply as well.

About the role

As a Software Developer (Test Automation Developer II), you will be responsible for key parts of the continuous software development process. In this role, you will work within cross-functional agile teams alongside developers and other agile team members to assess new features, plan and execute tests, and provide quality assistance and testing expertise to all development and integration efforts. You will also be responsible for gaining a holistic understanding of the system and solving overarching quality and automation problems including development of test automation frameworks along the CI/CD pipeline. You have a strong experience in supporting numerous applications using a mixture of manual and automated skill set to control software testing. Join a team that is looking to the future, and which fosters collaboration, trust, collective ownership, an engineering mindset, continuous learning, and a "automate everything" mentality.

Some awesome things you will do:

As a member of Automation team, you will help define the overall automated testing vision, select the tools, develop the frameworks, and help grow the team responsible for maintaining and enhancing the testing environments and focus on publishing reports. You will be involved in developing automated test suites for front-end, API/REST, back-end, and database. Your responsibilities on the Automation team will involve:

• Work as a member of an Agile team helping with backlog preparation, sprint planning and task estimates.
• Developing Test Cases and Procedures and executing the user stories against acceptance criteria.
• Analyze requirements, product specifications, break down complex software systems and design strategies to test these systems
• Creating the Automation Core Frameworks and scripts for End-to-End Testing and support Sprint Testing by performing Automation Testing.
• Executing the Regression suite with distributed test execution process using Selenium Grid to support Releases
• Responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining UI test scripts on Playwright/Cucumber FW using Typescript.
• Test Rest services using our API FW built on Cucumber JS and HTTP requests. Knowledge of any API related tool like Postman, SOAP UI is must.
• Replicate the UI application flow on the REST side using a Python based FW which uses HTTP requests and test relevant backend functionalities.
• Performing Defect Tracking Cycle and working closely with the developers to look for the fixes.
• Ensuring an elevated level of customer service is maintained to stakeholders while addressing critical requests.
• Contributing to improve and optimize our automation process to help automate current manual and repetitive processes/tasks.
• Coaching and mentoring junior team members to improve the overall automation engineering skillsets.
• Continuously look for improvements to enhance our software delivery process and software engineering practices and finding efficiencies to help increase the productivity of the team.

Your Skills:

• Team player with a positive attitude and excellent interpersonal skills
• Bachelor’s degree in computer sciences or equivalent experience
• Programming experience in Java, JavaScript, Typescript or Python.
• 3+ years of experience with UI automation testing using tools such as:
  • Playwright
  • WebDriver IO
  • Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grido
  • Protractor
• Proficiency testing RESTful APIs and working with related tools (Postman, SoapUI, Rest Assured)
• Experience working on Node JS
• Familiar with management Tools such as JIRA.
• In depth understanding of CICD tools like Jenkins.
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with Version Control Repository tools like GIT.
• Extensive Knowledge of Quality Assurance standards, methodologies, and strategies with a good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Experience in formulating Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Approaches
• Experience with Automation Testing Frameworks building from scratch using different approaches like TDD (Test Data Driven) & BDD (Behavior Data Driven) using Cucumber•
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment
• Ability to communicate, both in writing and orally and work independently while establishing relationships across many teams
• Ability to think critically, analyze and resolve technical issues while identifying different options and creating great solutions to problems that have not been encountered before.
• For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking colleagues across the country.
• No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.

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Il s'agit d'un nouveau rôle au sein de notre équipe en pleine croissance | This role is a new member of our growing team.

We are an equal opportunity employer

At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives.

We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

As part of Intact’s commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge that we work, meet and travel across the land currently called Canada, originally inhabited by First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. This history extends through many centuries and continues to evolve today.

We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies is available on request.

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Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters including but not limited to employer-specific closed work permits. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada from the anticipated start date and throughout their employment and are solely responsible for maintaining their work eligibility.

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