QA Automation Engineer – Telecommunications & Networking
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Position Overview
Staffinity is currently seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer (Telecommunications) for a premier client located in Mississauga. This is a full-time, permanent position with a competitive salary, benefits, and equity options. The base salary range is 100-120k+ DOE.
Our client is an innovative networking software provider developing high-performance edge computing and network optimization solutions for advanced telecom ecosystems. Rather than testing front-end UI components, this role is explicitly focused on backend automation, API testing, and network performance validation (latency, bandwidth, traffic simulation) within a distributed enterprise environment.
Ideal Candidate Profile: This is not a front-end or UI testing role. We are looking for an outside-the-box, hands-on technical automation builder who thrives in ambiguity, resists a restricted corporate framework, and understands how to programmatically test backend infrastructure and network performance.
Responsibilities
- Automation Framework Development: Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable automation test frameworks from scratch for backend APIs, microservices, and network compliance.
- Network Performance & Latency Validation: Programmatically simulate and validate network performance metrics, specifically testing for low latency, high bandwidth optimization, jitter, and throughput constraints.
- Backend Architecture Validation: Test real-time, distributed microservices systems for adherence to performance, scalability, concurrency, and reliability standards.
- Message Broker Verification: Rigorously validate asynchronous messaging frameworks and event-driven architectures, testing deep functionality and edge cases within message brokers like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
- Security & Infrastructure QA: Design and execute integration tests verifying secure connections, including hands-on validation of CA & TLS handshake mechanics and OAuth2 authorization frameworks.
- Log Analysis & Debugging: Leverage distributed logging and monitoring solutions (ELK Stack) to independently dissect log files, error messages, and system behaviors to track down root causes.
- SDLC & CI/CD Integration: Work closely with the core Java development team to weave advanced automated QA verification directly into the continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
- Documentation & Metrics: Create clear, comprehensive test strategies, test cases, and quality metrics while effectively communicating architectural defects to cross-functional engineering teams.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience: 5-7+ years of rigorous QA experience, with a proven track record focusing on QA automation within core networking products, infrastructure, or advanced telecommunications.
- Telco Performance Expertise: Deep practical understanding of telecom network mechanics—specifically handling and measuring latency, bandwidth tools, traffic shaping, packet delivery, and routing.
- Automation Prowess: Strong API and backend automation experience with a background in writing and maintaining scripts from scratch (Python or Java).
- Technical Stack Alignment: Strong hands-on experience or deep technical familiarity testing environments built on Java/Spring-Boot, Microservices, RabbitMQ, RESTful APIs, ELK Stack, OAuth2, and CA/TLS security.
- Startup Mindset: Direct experience working in a startup or lean environment where minimal supervision is provided, and out-of-the-box systemic thinking is required.
- Tools: Familiarity with a subset of tools including Python, Selenium, Appium, Postman, Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, SQL Server, or IntelliJ.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: $100,000.00-$120,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Profit sharing
- RRSP match
- Vision care
Experience:
- Telecom Network Performance & Latency testing: 2 years (required)
- QA: 7 years (required)
- QA Automation (API/Backend): 4 years (required)
- JAVA or Python: 5 years (required)
Work Location: In person
