Quality Assurance Automation Developer

Client: Government of Alberta (GOA) – Technology and Innovation (Digital Design & Delivery Division)

Project: Digital Transformation & Digital Design and Delivery (DDD)

Location: Edmonton, Alberta (Primarily Remote within Canada; occasional onsite meetings in Edmonton)

Positions: 7

Duration: Approximately 18 months (up to 24-month extension)

Hours: 36.25 hours/week

Expected Interview: Approximately 2 weeks after the posting closes

Job Description

The Government of Alberta is seeking seven (7) Quality Assurance Automation Developers to support Digital Design and Delivery (DDD) initiatives across multiple digital transformation projects.

The successful candidates will work in Agile, cross-functional teams responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality digital services by designing, implementing, and maintaining automated testing frameworks, CI/CD-integrated test suites, and quality engineering practices.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design comprehensive automation test strategies and test plans.
  
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts.
  
• Build automated regression, functional, integration, and end-to-end test suites.
  
• Design and execute:
  • System Testing
    
  • Load Testing
    
  • Performance Testing
    
  • Security Testing
    
  • End-to-End Testing
    
• Integrate automation with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/Jenkins).
  
• Support Agile Scrum teams throughout sprint execution.
  
• Promote QA best practices including:
  • Test Driven Development (TDD)
    
  • Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
    
  • Code coverage
    
  • Code linting
    
• Develop reusable testing components and automation frameworks.
  
• Support AI-enabled testing initiatives.
  
• Collect and report QA metrics and testing dashboards.
  
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, UX designers, and business stakeholders.
  

Mandatory Requirements

• Conflict of Interest Attestation
  
• 2+ years developing automation scripts integrated with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or GitHub Actions)
  
• 4+ years creating and maintaining automation test scripts
  
• 3+ years preparing automation test plans and test cases
  
• 3+ years using automation testing frameworks
  
• 2+ years GitHub
  
• 3+ years load, performance, security, or end-to-end testing
  

Nice-to-Have Skills

• API Testing
  
• Cypress
  
• Playwright
  
• Cucumber
  
• Gherkin
  
• QA automation metrics and reporting
  
• QA automation standards implementation
  
• Jira Xray
  
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  
• Enterprise Agile delivery experience
  
• AI-assisted software testing