Gestionnaire QA – Tests de paiements, d’API et d’événements / QA Lead – Payments, API & Event Testing

Expleo • Montréal-Ouest, QC

2d • CA$90 - CA$110 • Hybrid

About The Position

This role blends hands-on quality engineering with QA leadership across multiple teams and initiatives. You’ll validate critical payment and transaction flows across APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven platforms like Kafka, while driving testing strategy, managing quality risks, and ensuring consistent standards across delivery squads. Ideal for a senior QA professional who wants to stay technical while leading quality at scale.

Requirements

• 8-12+ years of software quality assurance, testing, or quality engineering experience.
• Previous experience leading testing efforts across multiple teams, releases, or delivery streams.
• Strong experience with API testing, including validation of request/response behavior, integration points, data payloads, and transaction flows.
• Experience testing event-driven architectures and messaging-based systems, including Kafka or similar messaging technologies.
• Experience creating test strategies, test plans, test estimates, and test reporting.
• Experience coordinating testing activities across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Experience creating test cases, executing tests, analyzing results, and managing defects through resolution.
• Strong understanding of integration testing and end-to-end business process validation.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to prioritize testing activities based on business risk and criticality.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and drive quality-focused decision-making across delivery teams.
• Bilingual French and English communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Banking, financial services, or payments industry experience.
• Experience testing payment processing systems, financial transaction platforms, or regulated environments.
• Experience leading distributed or multi-team testing initiatives.
• Experience contributing to test automation initiatives.
• Knowledge of Java and/or Python.
• Experience working with distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience with Jira and related quality management tools.
• Previous experience working within large enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate testing activities across multiple squads, projects, and payment initiatives.
• Establish and promote consistent quality practices, testing standards, and delivery processes across teams.
• Develop and maintain integrated test strategies and test plans aligned to business and delivery objectives.
• Coordinate testing schedules, dependencies, environments, and resource requirements across squads.
• Facilitate defect triage activities and ensure critical issues are properly prioritized and resolved.
• Identify, communicate, and manage testing risks, quality gaps, and release readiness concerns.
• Provide quality status reporting, test metrics, and risk assessments to stakeholders and leadership.
• Mentor and support QA team members while promoting best practices in testing and quality engineering.
• Collaborate with business, product, architecture, and development teams to ensure quality is considered throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Design, document, and execute test cases for banking and payment transaction flows across APIs, integrations, and event-driven systems.
• Validate the quality, reliability, resilience, and testability of solutions throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Test critical payment flows across distributed architectures, including API transactions, messaging platforms, event processing, and resulting business outcomes.
• Develop and execute testing strategies across multiple levels, including API, integration, end-to-end, and non-functional testing.
• Contribute to test automation initiatives where appropriate, including API, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Depending on team requirements, assist with the development and maintenance of automated test assets.
• Use quality metrics, defect trends, and operational insights to continuously improve testing effectiveness and reduce delivery risk.
• Track and manage defects, test execution activities, and quality metrics using Jira or similar tools.

Benefits

• Medical insurance, including telemedicine.
• Dental insurance.
• Long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Five paid personal days per year.
• Vacation accrual and statutory holiday protection.
• Employee referral bonus of up to CAD $1,000, subject to eligibility.
• Training, professional development, and internal career opportunities.
• For eligible billable employees, group insurance generally begins after three months of employment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior