QA Lead

Expleo•Montréal-Ouest, QC

3d•CA$161,000 - CA$175,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Trissential is hiring a QA Lead to join our client's team in Montreal. This is an exciting opportunity to lead quality initiatives across multiple delivery teams while helping shape the testing strategy for critical banking and payment solutions. If you're passionate about quality engineering, stakeholder engagement, and driving continuous improvement in large-scale enterprise environments, this role is for you.

Requirements

8-12+ years of experience in software quality assurance, testing, or quality engineering roles
Previous experience leading testing efforts across multiple teams, delivery streams, or enterprise initiatives
Strong expertise in API testing, including validation of requests, responses, payloads, integration points, and transaction flows
Experience testing event-driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka or similar technologies
Proven experience developing test strategies, test plans, estimates, and quality reporting frameworks
Strong experience coordinating testing activities and managing cross-functional stakeholder expectations
Demonstrated ability to create test cases, execute tests, analyze results, and manage defects through resolution
Strong understanding of integration testing and end-to-end business process validation
Experience working within Agile software delivery environments
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and risk assessment capabilities
Proven ability to influence stakeholders and promote quality-driven decision-making
Bilingual French and English communication skills
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline
Equivalent practical experience may be considered in lieu of formal education

Nice To Haves

Experience in banking, financial services, payments, or highly regulated industries
Experience testing payment processing platforms and financial transaction systems
Previous experience leading distributed or multi-team testing programs
Hands-on involvement with test automation initiatives and quality engineering practices
Knowledge of Java and/or Python
Experience working with microservices and distributed architectures
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices
Experience with Jira and related quality management tools
Previous experience working within large enterprise organizations
Industry certifications related to quality assurance, testing, Agile, or quality engineering are considered an asset

Responsibilities

Lead and coordinate testing activities across multiple squads, projects, releases, and payment initiatives
Establish and champion consistent testing standards, quality practices, and delivery processes across teams
Develop and maintain integrated test strategies, test plans, and quality approaches aligned to business objectives
Coordinate testing schedules, resource planning, environments, and cross-team dependencies
Facilitate defect triage activities and ensure critical issues are appropriately prioritized and resolved
Identify, assess, and communicate quality risks, testing gaps, and release readiness concerns
Provide testing metrics, quality status reporting, and risk-based recommendations to leadership and stakeholders
Mentor QA team members and promote best practices in quality assurance and quality engineering
Collaborate with product, business, architecture, and development teams to embed quality throughout the delivery lifecycle
Design, document, and execute test cases for banking and payment transaction workflows across APIs, integrations, and event-driven systems
Validate solution quality, resilience, reliability, and testability throughout the software development lifecycle
Test complex payment processing workflows spanning distributed systems, APIs, messaging platforms, and business processes
Develop and execute API, integration, end-to-end, and non-functional testing strategies
Contribute to test automation initiatives across multiple testing layers where appropriate
Assist with the creation and maintenance of automated test assets when required
Utilize quality metrics, defect trends, and operational insights to improve testing effectiveness and reduce delivery risk
Track defects, testing execution activities, and quality metrics using Jira and related quality management tools