Senior Cloud QA Engineer - Mock Position

TEST POSITION - Senior Cloud QA Engineer

This is a fictional mock posting created solely to test the VStream Labs recruitment workflow. It is not an active vacancy.

Position Overview

VStream Labs Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud QA Engineer for a fictional contract engagement with a Confidential Client. The successful candidate will lead quality engineering for cloud applications and APIs, establish scalable test automation practices, and collaborate with engineering, product, security, and delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and execute functional, integration, API, regression, performance, and reliability testing.
• Build and maintain automated test frameworks using Java, Selenium, REST Assured, and Playwright.
• Validate applications and services deployed on Microsoft Azure.
• Test REST APIs, asynchronous integrations, and data-processing workflows.
• Integrate automated testing with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop test strategies, plans, cases, traceability, and defect reports.
• Analyze failures using logs, metrics, traces, and application-monitoring tools.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, business analysts, product owners, and security teams.
• Report quality risks, coverage, defects, and release-readiness metrics.
• Mentor QA engineers and promote shift-left quality practices.

Required Qualifications

• Eight or more years of software quality assurance or quality engineering experience.
• Five or more years of hands-on test automation experience.
• Strong Java, Selenium, REST Assured, and API testing experience.
• Two or more years testing applications or services hosted on Microsoft Azure.
• Experience integrating automated tests into Azure DevOps or comparable CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with SQL, data validation, and backend testing.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery, defect management, and test documentation.
• Strong written communication, stakeholder collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Playwright, JMeter, or comparable modern test-tool experience.
• Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Datadog, or comparable observability experience.
• Experience testing financial-services applications.
• Knowledge of containerized services, Kubernetes, or microservices.
• Microsoft Azure or software-testing certification.

Work Arrangement

• Employment Type: Contract
• Location: Toronto, Ontario
• Arrangement: Hybrid - two days per week onsite

This is a workflow test only. No candidate applications are being accepted.