Our client is a top financial institution with significant North American holdings. They have operations across most major verticals, including institutional & corporate, wealth management, private clients, commercial banking, treasury, and retail banking.
Introduction:
Robertson is seeking a skilled Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - Mortgage & Lending Platforms to join our client in support of an existing vacancy.
Contract Period: 6 months
Pay Rate: Starting from $62 per hour
Location: Toronto, ON
Location Type: Hybrid
Business Hours: Monday-Friday, Core Business Hours
Job Responsibilities:
- Define and execute comprehensive test strategies covering functional, integration, performance, and nonfunctional testing for mortgage and lending applications
- Ensure test approaches align with enterprise quality standards, regulatory expectations, and delivery timelines
- Collaborate with delivery, product, and architecture teams to embed quality throughout the development lifecycle
- Design, build, and maintain automated UI tests using Playwright
- Develop and execute API and service level tests using Bruno or similar tools
- Perform database validation to ensure data integrity across upstream and downstream lending systems
- Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous testing and early defect detection
- Validate data flows, business rules, and hand offs across integrated systems supporting
- Execute service and integration tests to ensure system interoperability, data consistency, and error handling
- Identify and troubleshoot issues related to APIs, messaging, and system dependencies
Performance & Non-Functional Testing
- Design and execute performance, load, and stress tests using JMeter to validate system scalability and reliability
- Analyse performance results, identify bottlenecks, and work with engineering teams to support remediation
- Contribute to nonfunctional testing covering reliability, resilience, and operational readiness
- Validate mortgage and lending workflows such as application submission, underwriting decisions, fulfillment, and funding processes
- Ensure technology solutions correctly implement lending rules, policies, and operational requirements
- Partner with business and BA teams to ensure test coverage reflects real world mortgage scenarios
- Log, track, and manage defects through resolution, providing clear reproduction steps and impact assessment
- Participate in defect triage and prioritization discussions
- Provide clear quality metrics, test status, and risk assessments to delivery and leadership teams
Experience & Qualification Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
- 7-10 years of experience in Quality Assurance, with a strong focus on test automation and system integration testing
- Experience testing mortgage, lending, or regulated financial services platforms is strongly preferred
- Strong experience testing APIs, microservices, and integrated systems
- Experience validating data across databases and downstream reporting or operational systems
- Familiarity with pipelines and automated test execution frameworks
- Domain & Delivery Experience
- Strong understanding of end-to-end mortgage or credit workflows and their supporting systems
- Experience working in agile or hybrid delivery models supporting complex, multi workstream initiatives
- Comfortable working alongside developers, BAs, product owners, and external vendors in fast paced environments
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate defects, risks, and test results
- Ability to work independently while also contributing effectively within a cross functional delivery team
- Leadership skills
How to Apply: If you are a motivated professional looking to contribute to a leading team, please submit your resume outlining your qualifications and experience relevant to this role. Robertson & the clients we represent, value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We invite all qualified individuals to apply.
Background screening is required as part of the onboarding process. The type of screening required (criminal, credit, or other verifications) will vary based on the position and client requirements.
We use AI technology as part of our application review process to assist with screening and assessment. All applications are also reviewed by our recruitment team.
Robertson & the clients we represent are equal opportunity employers, committed to diversity and inclusion. Robertson is a certified diverse supplier and actively seeks to foster a representative and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran