Performance Jobs in Kitchener, ON

Drive quality across complex mortgage and lending platforms in a highly regulated insurance environment, leveraging advanced test automation, API validation, and performance testing tools. This role offers exposure to large-scale system integrations, agile delivery, and high-impact digital transformation initiatives.

• Salaried: $50-60 per hour.

• Incorporated Business Rate: $60-70 per hour.

• 9-month contract.

• Full-time position: 37.50 hours per week.

• 2 days on-site per week.

• Based in Toronto or Waterloo.

• Define and execute comprehensive test strategies covering functional, integration, performance, and non-functional testing.

• Design, build, and maintain automated UI tests using Playwright and develop API and service-level tests using appropriate tools.

• Validate data integrity across databases and interconnected systems to ensure accuracy and consistency.

• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and early defect detection.

• Perform end-to-end integration testing across systems supporting lending workflows and ensure seamless data flow.

• Design and execute performance, load, and stress testing to validate scalability and system reliability.

• Analyze performance results, identify bottlenecks, and collaborate with engineering teams on remediation.

• Validate lending workflows including application processing, underwriting, and funding to ensure compliance with business rules.

• Log, track, and manage defects, providing clear documentation, impact analysis, and resolution follow-up.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers, business analysts, and product owners to embed quality throughout delivery.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.

• 5–10 years of experience in quality assurance with a strong focus on automation and system integration testing.

• Proven hands-on experience with UI automation tools such as Playwright.

• Experience in API and service testing using tools such as Bruno or equivalent.

• Strong experience in performance testing using tools such as JMeter.

• Solid understanding of APIs, microservices, and complex system integrations.

• Experience validating data across databases and downstream systems.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.

• Experience working in regulated financial services environments, ideally within mortgage or lending domains.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with attention to detail.

• Ability to work independently and effectively within fast-paced, cross-functional teams.

• Comfortable operating in agile or hybrid delivery models with multiple stakeholders.

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