Developer, QA Automation

Job Summary

We are seeking a Developer, QA Automation to build automated testing within our IT delivery teams. This role focuses on designing, developing, and maintaining automated test suites and applies AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate delivery, enabling faster and more reliable software delivery. The role includes capacity to contribute to adjacent application development and CI/CD pipeline work as delivery priorities shift.

As a Developer, QA Automation, you will work alongside manual testers, developers, DevOps engineers, and business stakeholders to implement test automation frameworks, integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, and ensure high-quality software deployments.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Code, prepare, and maintain end-to-end automation solutions across web, mobile, and API, following established scalability patterns and best practices
• Build and integrate automation workflows with Porter's enterprise and airline systems from proof-of-concept to production
• Use AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) as a core part of daily workflow to accelerate framework and test development, refactoring, and debugging, with rigorous validation of AI-generated output
• Use AI to investigate suite health, identify flaky tests, quantify regression risk, and prepare reviewer-ready reports of test run signals
• Contribute to application codebases alongside developers on targeted testability, reliability, or tooling improvements
• Contribute to Porter's CI/CD tooling and pipelines (GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins) beyond test integration, supporting build performance, deployment gates, and pipeline observability
• Support test environment work using infrastructure patterns established by the DevOps team, including ephemeral environments and seeded data
• Code and prepare observability instrumentation for automated suites (Datadog, Dynatrace) so failures surface with actionable context
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and IT counterparts to identify automation opportunities, gather requirements, and implement solutions aligned with strategic goals
• Launch, support, and prepare improvements for production automation solutions, including troubleshooting, observability instrumentation, and measuring system performance
• Prepare automation patterns, code standards, and documentation, and share validated approaches with the team
• Research emerging technologies in AI, large language models (LLMs/SLMs), and process automation to identify opportunities that could enhance testing capabilities
• Prepare technical materials for business stakeholders on automation technologies and implementation approaches
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and use AI to accelerate ticket refinement, estimation preparation, and retrospective analysis
• Actively participate in Porter's Safety Management System (SMS) including reporting hazards and incidents encountered in daily operations; understand, comply and promote the Company Safety Policy

Behavioural Competencies

• Concern for Safety: Identifying hazardous or potentially hazardous situations and taking appropriate action to maintain a safe environment for self and others.
• Teamwork: Working collaboratively with others to achieve organizational goals.
• Passenger/Customer Service: Providing service excellence to internal and/or external customers (passengers).
• Initiative: Dealing with situations and issues proactively and persistently, seizing opportunities that arise.
• Results Focus: Focusing efforts on achieving high quality results consistent with the organization’s standards.
• Fostering Communication: Listening and communicating openly, honestly, and respectfully with different audiences, promoting dialogue and building consensus.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience in test automation development, hands-on with at least one modern framework (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar)
• Proficiency in a programming or scripting language used for automation (TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or Java)
• Strong understanding of software testing principles, including test case design, defect tracking, and test reporting
• Hands-on experience with API test automation using tools such as Postman, RestAssured, or similar
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline) for automated testing integration; broader CI/CD pipeline authoring experience is an asset
• Working proficiency using AI-assisted engineering tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar) as part of daily workflow for framework and test development, refactoring, and debugging, while maintaining validation of AI-generated output
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Datadog, Dynatrace, or similar) is an asset
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and cloud services (AWS) is an asset
• Knowledge of performance testing tools such as JMeter or Gatling is an asset
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to support manual testers transitioning to automation

Experience with Agile software development methodologies

Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to support automation adoption

Location

Toronto Downtown Office (250 Yonge Street) #LI-Hybrid

Since 2006, Porter Airlines has been elevating the experience of economy air travel for every passenger, providing genuine hospitality with style, care and charm. Porter’s fleet of Embraer E195-E2 and De Havilland Dash 8-400 aircraft serves North America, including a coast-to-coast domestic Canadian network, the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. Headquartered in Toronto, Porter is an Official 4 Star Airline® in the World Airline Star Rating®. Visit www.flyporter.com or follow @porterairlines on Instagram, Facebook and X.