Automation Test Lead- Wealth Management Platforms (FNZ)

Role: Automation Test Lead- Wealth Management Platforms (FNZ)

Location: Simcoe Street, ON (Hybrid)

Top skills required for this role:

• 6+ years of experience in Software Testing and Test Automation.
• Strong proficiency in Java, including Streams, Lambdas, Collections, and modern design patterns.
• Hands-on experience in Java-based automation framework development.
• Strong experience with Playwright for UI automation, API testing, and backend validation.
• Solid understanding of test data management and automation best practices.
• Experience with Git, version control systems, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of Kafka, MongoDB, and AWS S3.
• Strong manual testing skills, including test design, execution, functional validation, and defect lifecycle management.
• Proven ability to lead testing efforts independently and drive deliverables to successful completion.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills.
• Experience creating QA metrics, status reports, and executive-level quality updates.
• Domain knowledge in Insurance and/or Wealth Management is highly preferred.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Test Lead — Wealth Management Platforms (FNZ)

• Own test strategy, planning, and estimation for FNZ platform releases, configuration changes, and upgrade cycles.
• Lead a squad of 3–8 QA analysts across functional, integration, regression, and UAT phases, including offshore and vendor test teams.
• Act as QA point of contact with FNZ — track vendor defects, release notes, and config changes, and assess their impact on in-flight delivery.
• Design end-to-end coverage across account opening, transfers (cash and in-specie), model portfolios and rebalancing, trading and settlement, corporate actions, income, valuations, fees, and client reporting.
• Build and maintain the regression pack for upgrades, and decide what gets automated versus what stays manual.
• Write strong SQL for reconciliations, migration and conversion testing, feed validation, and report output checks.
• Test APIs and integrations with custodians, market data, payments, CRM, and document management using Postman, SoapUI, or REST Assured.
• Review and extend automation (Playwright) and integrate test gates into CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab.
• Run UAT with operations, adviser support, and front office — scripts, sessions, and sign-off.
• Own defect triage and quality reporting to program and steering level, with a clear view of coverage, risk, and release readiness.
• Keep test evidence audit-ready for internal audit, risk, and regulatory review (Consumer Duty, CASS, MiFID II, or local equivalents).
• Bring demonstrable hands-on FNZ experience — at least one full implementation, migration, or major upgrade — plus solid wealth platform operations knowledge and Jira/Xray or ALM tooling.

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