- Location
- Calgary, Alberta
- Workplace
- Remote
- Seniority
- Lead
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Source
- Pinpoint
Description
QA Lead (Automation)
Department: Technology
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Calgary, Canada
Reporting To: Sr. Director, Quality Assurance
Description
Working closely with Engineering, Product, and DevOps, you will make quality a shared responsibility throughout the SDLC, improving testability, shortening feedback cycles, and providing clear evidence for release decisions
What that means day-to-day:
• Define risk-based testing across UI, API, integration, end-to-end, regression, and production validation, partnering with Engineering and Product to clarify acceptance criteria, improve testability, and communicate coverage gaps and release risks
• Develop and drive automation-first practices, scalable automation frameworks, and promote continuous testing across the CI/CD pipeline
• Embed approved AI tools into test design, automation development, code analysis, failure triage, and maintenance, with validation, review, and data-protection controls that deliver measurable improvements.
• Own Test organization, traceability, regression selection, and execution reporting; lead evidence-based defect triage and root-cause analysis.
• Strengthen API contracts, authentication, authorization, multi-tenant access, configurable workflows, and cross-service data validation, including coverage for downstream failures
• Track actionable quality metrics and mentor QA/SDET engineers through test planning, code reviews, debugging, and test-architecture guidance.
• Work closely with cross-functional leadership to communicate quality risks, provide release recommendations, and drive informed decisions.
What you’ll need to be successful:
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright, including building, maintaining, and debugging automation beyond test scripts alone
• Practical use of AI coding assistants and agents, including evaluating generated code and measuring workflow improvements
• Experience with TestRail or an equivalent test-management platform, including traceability and execution reporting.
• Experience with performance, accessibility, security, and other non-functional testing
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab
• Experience assessing release readiness, managing quality risks, and providing evidence-based go/no-go recommendations
• Proven ability to mentor, coach and develop team members, fostering technical excellence and professional growth
Nice to have:
• Can design and evolve automation frameworks, not just write scripts
• Understands code quality, APIs, architecture, CI/CD, and technical trade-offs.
• Understands how AI can improve test design, execution, and analysis
• Takes accountability for product quality across the entire SDLC
• Uses meaningful quality metrics to drive engineering improvements.
• Understands multi-tenant SaaS platforms, integrations, role-based access, and configurable workflows
What you’ll get in return:
>🩺 Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- A response to your application within 15 working days
- An interview process consisting of:
- An initial discovery call with the recruiter
- A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams
- Additional interview with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role