Title:  Quality Assurance Automation Engineer Associate

Requisition ID: 263762

Thanks for your interest in ScotiaTech, Scotiabank's new and innovative Technology hub in Bogota.

Join a purpose driven winning team that promotes creativity and innovation in a fast-paced environment, where we’re always committed to results, in an inclusive, diverse, and high-performing culture.

 

Purpose

Accountabilities 

•Champions a customer-focused culture mindset that helps to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge by ensuring automation initiatives contribute to enhancing user experience, system reliability, and overall product quality across multiple applications.

•Proactively reviews requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to identify automation opportunities early, providing timely and value-added feedback to ensure high-quality and scalable solutions.

•Designs, develops, and oversees the implementation of comprehensive, well-structured automated test plans and test cases, ensuring optimal coverage, reliability, and efficiency prior to product release to ensure software runs smoothly and meets client’s needs while being cost-effective

•Leads and monitors automated test execution and debugging processes, analyzing results, identifying root causes, and defining effective corrective and preventive actions.

•Performs ongoing maintenance of automation scripts, proactively identifying and resolving failures caused by application updates, changes in underlying tools, or environment configurations, ensuring stability, reliability, and continuous execution of automated test suites.

•Defines tracks, and continuously improves automation and quality metrics (e.g., coverage, execution stability, defect leakage), ensuring transparency and alignment with quality objectives. 

•Continuously evaluates and adopts emerging tools, technologies, and automation strategies, including AI-driven solutions, to optimize testing efficiency and improve overall QA effectiveness.

•Ensures all automation activities align with the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture, proactively identifying risks related to automation frameworks, scripts, and deployments, and implementing mitigation strategies.

•Contributes to maintaining a controlled and efficient operational environment by ensuring adherence to automation governance standards, frameworks, and enterprise policies, day-to-day business controls to meet obligations concerning operational risk, regulatory compliance, AML/ATF, and conduct risk requirements.

•Drives a high-performance environment by promoting automation, best practices, standardization, and continuous improvement across the organization.

•Fosters strong collaboration across QA, development, and project teams, ensuring alignment and consistency in automation approaches across multiple applications and initiatives.

•Actively shares knowledge, promotes best practices, and contributes to building and maintaining reusable automation assets, frameworks, and libraries to increase scalability and efficiency.

•Develops and maintains reusable, scalable, and robust automation scripts and frameworks that reduce execution time, lower costs, and improve quality across multiple applications.

•Supports continuous improvement initiatives by identifying gaps in automation coverage, process inefficiencies, and opportunities for optimization across the QA lifecycle.

Reporting Relationships

Primary Manager:   
Direct Reports:  

Shared Reports  NA

Dimensions NA

Education / Experience / Other Information (include only those that are specific to the role)

•A degree in computer science, IT Business/Management or engineering-related discipline is desirable.
•1-3 years of demonstrable, practical hands-on experience as a Test Automation Engineer.
•Automation certification is an asset.
•ISTQB or Scrum certification are considered an asset.

Competencies

                                        
Working Conditions

Work in a standard office-based environment; non-standard hours are a common occurrence

Location(s):  Colombia : Bogota : Bogota

ScotiaTech is a business unit within ScotiaGBS, a Scotiabank Group company located in Bogota, Colombia. The ScotiaTech hub was created to support different technology systems and processes of the Bank. We offer an inclusive, positive work environment, and competitive benefits.

At ScotiaTech, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at ScotiaTech; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.