NEW JOB OPENING
AUTOMATION DEVELOPER
IN Mississauga, ON, CANADA!

 

Date Posted: 10/27/2026
Hiring Organization: Rose International
Position Number: 509880
Industry: Financial Services
Job Title: Automation Developer
Job Location: Mississauga, ON, Canada, L4T 0B2
Work Model: Hybrid
Work Model Details: 3 days onsite and 2 days remote
Employment Type: Temp to Hire
FT/PT: Full-Time
Estimated Duration (In months): 6
Min Hourly Rate($): 70.00
Max Hourly Rate($): 80.00
Must Have Skills/Attributes: Quality Engineer, Software Development
Experience Desired:
Experience in software development and quality engineering (8-12 yrs),
Lead SDET, Principal SDET, or QA Architect capacity exeprience (3+ yrs),
Financial Services, Capital Markets, FinTech, or low-latency Trading Platforms with an understanding of trading workflows (5+ yrs),
Proficiency in Core Java (collections, multithreading, concurrency, OOP design patterns) (8+ yrs)
Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree
Preferred Education: Master’s Degree
Preferred Certifications/Licenses: AWS / GCP Cloud Architecture or Developer Certifications or Certified Software Test Architect / ISTQ

**C2C is not available**

 

Job Description
Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.



Preferred Education:

• Master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.



Preferred Certifications

• Certified Software Test Architect / ISTQB Advanced Level (Test Automation Engineer / Technical Test Analyst).

• AWS / GCP Cloud Architecture or Developer Certifications.

• Java SE Professional Developer Certification.



Required Qualifications

• Experience Level: 8–12+ years of progressive experience in software development and quality engineering, with at least 3+ years in a Lead SDET, Principal SDET, or QA Architect capacity.

• Domain Background: Proven track record in Financial Services, Capital Markets, FinTech, or low-latency Trading Platforms with an understanding of trading workflows, order management, and financial data flows.

• Core Programming & Design: Expert-level proficiency in Core Java (collections, multithreading, concurrency, OOP design patterns).

• Framework Design: Demonstrated track record of building scalable, maintainable test frameworks from the ground up (Custom hybrid frameworks, Cucumber BDD, TestNG/JUnit).

• API & Service Testing: Deep expertise in RESTful API testing, service virtualization, contract testing, and tools such as Rest Assured, Postman/Newman, and WireMock.

• UI Automation: Extensive hands-on experience in Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, or Cypress with design patterns like Page Object Model (POM) and Screenplay pattern.

• Performance Testing & Engineering: Solid hands-on background in JMeter, performance profiling, load injection architecture, and identifying system capacity limits.

• Database & Data Validation: Strong query formulation and automated verification capabilities across SQL (Oracle, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB).

• CI/CD & DevOps: Strong hands-on experience integrating automated suites into CI/CD pipelines with Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins/Tekton/Harness, and containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes).

• AI Tooling & Innovation: Practical exposure to or active implementation of AI-assisted testing tools, LLM-driven test case generation, and automated self-healing scripts.



Preferred Qualifications

• Prior background as a full-time Software Development Engineer (Java/Spring Boot).

• Experience with message brokers and event-driven architectures (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ).

• Familiarity with Contract Testing (Pact framework) and Service Mesh architectures.

• Experience with Cloud native platforms (AWS, GCP, or OpenShift/Kubernetes).

• Familiarity with Security testing fundamentals (DAST/SAST integration into pipelines).



Responsibilities

1. Architectural Strategy & Framework Engineering

• Enterprise Test Architecture: Design, build, and maintain next-generation, cloud-native test automation frameworks from scratch using Core Java, BDD/TDD principles, and modern architectural design patterns.

• In-Sprint Automation Acceleration: Spearhead shift-left quality practices, enabling engineering squads to achieve true in-sprint test automation for UI, microservices, and distributed streaming/messaging pipelines.

• AI & Intelligent Testing Integration: Evaluate, integrate, and scale AI/ML-assisted testing solutions (e.g., generative AI for synthetic test data generation, predictive quality gates, self-healing test automation, and intelligent test impact analysis).

• Multi-Tier & Service-Level Automation: Architect robust API and microservice testing frameworks (REST, gRPC, WebSockets, Kafka/messaging queues) using Rest Assured, Mocking frameworks, and contract testing (Pact).

• Data Architecture & Validation: Architect comprehensive data validation frameworks capable of validating complex financial data pipelines, data consistency, and transactional integrity across relational (Oracle/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.

2. Performance Engineering & Non-Functional Architecture

• End-to-End Performance Strategy: Formulate and execute non-functional testing strategies encompassing load, stress, spike, endurance, and latency benchmarking using JMeter, Gatling, or distributed cloud performance engines.

• Observability & Bottleneck Identification: Analyze system bottlenecks across CPU, memory, database query execution, network latency, and JVM performance to provide actionable optimization recommendations to core engineering teams.

• Resilience & Chaos Engineering: Implement resilience, failover, and high-availability testing paradigms across cloud and containerized environments.

3. Continuous Delivery & Quality Gates

• Cloud & CI/CD Pipeline Architecture: Deeply embed automated quality gates into enterprise CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, Tekton, GitHub Actions, Harness) across containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).

• Continuous Quality Analytics: Define and instrument automated metrics and dashboards reflecting code quality, test coverage, defect leakage, MTTR, and test execution efficiency.

4. Technical Leadership & Global Governance

• Global Team Technical Leadership: Provide technical direction and architectural governance to SDETs and QE engineers globally (bridging North America and APAC teams).

• Standards & Best Practices: Establish enterprise-wide quality benchmarks, coding standards for test repositories, code review policies, and test artifact reusability guidelines.

• Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate with Global Product Owners, Business Analysts, Enterprise Architects, and Development Leads for comprehensive test planning, release coordination, and risk assessment.



Behavioral Competencies & Leadership Attributes

• Strategic Vision with Hands-on Execution: Ability to define long-term architectural roadmaps while remaining technically agile and capable of diving into framework code.

• Influence & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven ability to build consensus across distributed engineering teams, bridging regional and time-zone differences.

• Culture of Innovation: Proactive mindset in evaluating emerging technologies, GenAI testing tools, and industry trends to keep the QA organization at peak efficiency.

• Quality Advocacy & Ownership: High sense of accountability for product reliability, stability, and client experience in mission-critical environments.

• Mentorship & Coaching: Passion for upskilling SDETs and manual QA engineers into advanced automation practitioners.

  • **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**

  • **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**


 

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