Senior QA Automation Engineer

Morningstar's Workplace team is looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer. In this role, you will work closely with our product manager, tech leads, and developers to design and develop comprehensive test plans and cases, create automated scripts for front-end and back-end testing, conduct performance tests, and develop deep expertise in our products. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical skills and experience in automation testing, a passion for delivering high-quality products, excellent collaboration and communication skills, and a desire to learn and grow with our team.
The successful candidate will be obsessed with quality improvement and automating tests for regression and new features. This position is based in our Toronto office. We follow a hybrid policy of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote work.
Job Responsibilities
Responsibilities include understanding customer use cases, diving deep into software development, and developing QA approaches to measure confidence in the product. You will work directly with development teams, product managers and peer QA teams to iteratively improve our software development process.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using testing frameworks and scripting languages (e.g., Selenium, Java, JavaScript).
• Implement test automation best practices and maintain code standards.
• Integrate automated tests into the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for seamless execution.
• Build and enhance test automation frameworks for efficient test script creation and execution.
• Implement reusable functions and libraries to optimize test development.
• Manage and maintain test data and environments to ensure test repeatability and reliability.
• Understand the business domain and product.
• Understand the customers.
• Generate and maintain test reports, documenting test results and defects.
• Efficiently execute test cases across all functional areas of our products.
• Find, isolate, document, regress, and track bugs through resolution.
• Interpret and report testing results, and be a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the development process.
• Work with Software Development Engineers to understand the overall technical architecture and how each feature is implemented.
• Be a true team player, able to work with multiple people at any given time.
• Strong ability to write code using Java programming OR JavaScript scripting language.
• Product release sign-off.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent plus a minimum of 6+ years of working experience.
• Solid understanding of database technologies.
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD tools.
• Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively in an Agile environment

Nice to have

• AWS knowledge is a plus.

If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.
Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.
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