Test Automation Engineer

We are:

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You Are

A Test Automation Engineer with strong software development expertise and hands-on experience building scalable, maintainable automation frameworks using modern TypeScript technologies. You combine deep quality engineering knowledge with strong development skills, enabling you to build robust test solutions, contribute to application development, and accelerate delivery through intelligent automation.

You are passionate about engineering excellence and leverage GenAI tools in your day-to-day work to improve productivity, automate repetitive tasks, enhance test coverage, and accelerate troubleshooting. You have experience working with modern test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, and WebdriverIO, and are comfortable collaborating with developers, product teams, and DevOps engineers in agile environments.

You understand both quality assurance and software engineering principles, enabling you to contribute across the software development lifecycle while ensuring applications meet the highest standards of quality, reliability, security, and performance.

The Work

You will be part of a cross-functional Agile delivery team responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting modern web and cloud-native applications. You will play a dual role as both a software developer and automation engineer, helping teams adopt automation-first practices while contributing directly to application development.

You will design and implement automated testing solutions, integrate them into CI/CD pipelines, and leverage GenAI technologies to improve engineering efficiency. You will work closely with developers and stakeholders to ensure quality is built into every stage of the software delivery lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks using TypeScript and open-source automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, and WebdriverIO.

• Develop automated functional, regression, integration, API, end-to-end, and cross-browser test suites for enterprise applications.

• Build reusable automation libraries, utilities, and testing components that improve maintainability and reduce execution time.

• Contribute to frontend and/or backend application development using modern software engineering practices and coding standards.

• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, product owners, and DevOps teams to define test strategies and acceptance criteria.

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous testing and rapid release cycles.

• Utilize GenAI tools and technologies to improve development and testing workflows, including test case generation, code generation, defect analysis, documentation creation, and workflow automation.

• Participate in the design and implementation of AI-enabled solutions including agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), MCP integrations, and developer productivity tools.

• Develop automated API validation and service testing solutions for distributed and cloud-native applications.

• Analyze application performance, identify defects, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with engineering teams to implement resolutions.

• Establish and monitor quality metrics, test coverage, defect trends, and release readiness indicators.

• Support production validation, post-release testing, and ongoing quality improvements.

• Ensure automation solutions follow security, accessibility, reliability, and compliance requirements.

• Mentor team members on test automation best practices, engineering standards, and quality-first development approaches.

• This role requires to be in the local office 3 days per week. Preferred location: Mississauga, Canada.

Here's What You Need: (skills)

•4- 5 years of experience in software quality engineering, test automation, or software development roles.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing automation frameworks and automated test solutions using TypeScript.

• Strong experience with one or more open-source test automation frameworks including Playwright, Selenium, or WebdriverIO.

• Experience developing and maintaining automated UI, API, integration, and end-to-end test suites.

• Experience contributing to frontend and/or backend application development using modern development frameworks and technologies.

• Practical experience using GenAI tools in day-to-day engineering activities, including code generation, test generation, debugging, workflow automation, and productivity enhancement.

• Familiarity with AI concepts including agentic workflows, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), tool integrations, and LLM-powered solutions.

• Experience testing and validating cloud-native, distributed, or microservices-based applications.

• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), software testing lifecycle (STLC), Agile, and DevOps methodologies.

• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar platforms.

• Experience with source control systems such as Git and collaborative development workflows.

• Knowledge of API testing, test data management, mocking, service virtualization, and automation best practices.

• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain Reliability Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing Playwright automation frameworks in enterprise environments.

• Experience leveraging GenAI capabilities to improve software quality engineering processes.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.

• Experience working in regulated environments requiring security and compliance standards.

• Familiarity with performance testing, accessibility testing, and test observability solutions.

• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise digital transformation programs.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range
British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $52,850 to $102,850

About Accenture

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