Senior Software Development Engineer in Test – Digital Banking
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Senior SDET automating web, mobile, API, and integration testing for Aequilibrium’s Canadian credit union banking modernization projects. Validating secure, reliable member banking experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain automated UI, API, and integration tests for web and mobile banking applications
- Build reusable test automation frameworks and integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Develop test strategies, test plans, scenarios, and traceability aligned with business requirements
- Execute functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and exploratory testing
- Investigate defects, analyze logs, identify root causes, and collaborate with developers to resolve them
- Improve test coverage, automation reliability, and quality reporting
- Validate member-facing journeys including login, MFA, account balances, transfers, bill payments, Interac e-Transfer, mobile cheque deposit, and account servicing
- Test commercial banking capabilities such as delegated access, entitlements, approvals, and business payments
- Validate integrations between digital banking platforms, core banking systems, payment services, lending applications, and CRM systems
- Support data migration testing, reconciliation, and regression testing during platform replacements
- Participate in SIT, UAT, release readiness, and production validation
- Collaborate with client business teams to ensure test scenarios reflect real banking operations and member needs
- Work within Agile delivery teams and contribute to sprint planning, refinement, and acceptance criteria
- Integrate quality engineering practices into development workflows
- Support performance, security, and accessibility testing in collaboration with specialists
- Provide quality metrics, defect reporting, and release-readiness assessments
- Help establish automated quality gates for AI-assisted software development
- Within the first 90 days, understand the client's digital banking architecture, critical workflows, and integration dependencies
- Establish or improve automated regression coverage for high-priority banking journeys
- Identify test coverage gaps and recommend practical improvements
- Contribute to reliable release-readiness reporting and defect management
- Reduce manual regression effort while improving confidence in production releases
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional software testing or quality engineering experience
- 3+ years of hands-on test automation development
- Experience testing financial services, banking, credit union, or other transaction-intensive applications
- Strong proficiency with at least one modern test automation framework such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or Appium
- Programming or scripting experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, C#, or Python
- Strong API testing skills using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, or equivalent
- Experience testing REST APIs, authentication, authorization, and system integrations
- Experience with SQL, data validation, and troubleshooting integration issues
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins
- Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, defect management, and risk-based testing
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate directly with client stakeholders
- Direct experience with Canadian credit unions or digital banking transformation programs highly desirable
- Experience with digital banking platforms such as VeriPark, Backbase, Central 1 Forge/MemberDirect, Intellect Design, Temenos, Lumin, or eBankIT highly desirable
- Integration testing with core banking systems, especially Fiserv DNA or CGI RFS360, highly desirable
- Experience with Canadian payment capabilities, including Interac e-Transfer, bill payments, and payment processing highly desirable
- Knowledge of mortgage lending, loan origination, commercial banking, or CRM workflows highly desirable
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Azure, and .NET-based enterprise environments highly desirable
- Mobile application testing across iOS and Android highly desirable
- Performance testing with JMeter, k6, or similar tools highly desirable
- Accessibility testing aligned with WCAG standards highly desirable
- Experience testing AI-generated code or implementing automated quality controls in AI-assisted development environments highly desirable
- Experience supporting banking platform migration, cutover, or production hypercare highly desirable
- Candidates must be currently located in Canada
- Valid LinkedIn profile link required
Benefits:
- Remote-first Canadian team
- Meaningful digital banking modernization projects
- Collaboration with experienced engineers, designers, architects, and banking specialists
- Opportunity to shape modern quality engineering practices, including AI-assisted development and testing

















