Senior QA/QA Lead
- Location: Ontario
- Type: Contract
- Job #35115
Senior QA Lead / Senior QA Automation Lead
(Remote Role | Toronto/GTA Preferred | Occasional Toronto Travel Required)
- 10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, QA Automation, and Enterprise Testing within complex enterprise environments
- Strong hands-on experience with Selenium, RestAssured, TestNG, Postman, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, SQL, and Java-based automation frameworks
- Proven ability to design, build, and maintain scalable automation frameworks from scratch
- Lead and coordinate QA activities across multiple applications, integrations, stakeholders, and dependent teams
- Extensive experience with manual testing, automation testing, API testing, UI testing, integration testing, regression testing, and end-to-end testing
- Strong expertise in REST API testing, including validation of payloads, authentication, headers, status codes, JSON/XML services, and backend integrations
- Hands-on experience with database testing, SQL querying, PostgreSQL validation, and backend data integrity verification
- Experience executing cross-browser UI testing, frontend validation, usability testing, and workflow validation for enterprise web applications
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Agile/Scrum delivery models, defect management, and QA governance processes
- Ability to lead defect triage sessions, root cause analysis activities, release readiness reviews, and quality reporting initiatives
- Experience working closely with Project Managers, Developers, Architects, Business Analysts, Operations Teams, and external stakeholders
- Comfortable coordinating with distributed onshore/offshore teams within fast-paced enterprise delivery environments
- Strong leadership, communication, organizational, mentoring, and stakeholder management capabilities with a proactive “go-getter” mentality
- Exposure to AI-assisted QA practices, Jira AI integrations, intelligent automation initiatives, and modern QA transformation strategies
- Experience supporting enterprise integration projects, production releases, UAT activities, and large-scale mission-critical environments
Additional Information:
- Fully Remote role with occasional travel required to the Toronto office (approximately 2–3 times annually)
- Preference for candidates located within the Toronto/GTA region
- Enhanced Reliability Clearance Eligibility is Mandatory (Clearance not required at time of onboarding)