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Senior QA Lead / Senior QA Automation Lead

Canada, Toronto · Job Posted May 17, 2026
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Senior QA Lead / Senior QA Automation Lead (Remote Role | Toronto/GTA Preferred | Occasional Toronto Travel Required). 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).

Job Responsibility

  • Lead and coordinate QA activities across multiple applications, integrations, stakeholders, and dependent teams
  • Lead defect triage sessions, root cause analysis activities, release readiness reviews, and quality reporting initiatives
  • Work closely with Project Managers, Developers, Architects, Business Analysts, Operations Teams, and external stakeholders
  • Coordinate with distributed onshore/offshore teams within fast-paced enterprise delivery environments

Requirements

  • 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

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