QA Lead
Summary
QA Lead in Toronto (hybrid) who owns end-to-end quality for complex banking/financial applications: leading functional and automated testing across APIs, batch jobs, Kafka event flows, and ETL pipelines. Core stack includes SQL, Postman, Selenium/Cypress/Playwright, Java/Python, and CI/CD tooling; requires 8+ years of QA experience.
QA Lead
● Location: Toronto, Canada
● Work Model: Hybrid
● Experience: 8+ years
● Domain: Banking / Financial Services
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced QA Lead to lead functional quality assurance activities for
complex banking and financial applications. The role requires strong hands-on functional and
manual testing expertise, practical test automation experience, database validation skills, and
the ability to lead QA activities across complex enterprise implementations.
The QA Lead will own end-to-end test coverage across backend processes, APIs, integrations,
file-based workflows, batch processing, and data validation. The role will work closely with
developers, business analysts, product teams, technical consultants, and other QA engineers to
ensure high-quality releases.
Key Responsibilities
● Lead functional, regression, integration, system, and end-to-end testing for complex
applications.
● Analyze business and technical requirements and identify test scenarios, coverage gaps,
and quality risks.
● Develop and maintain test plans, test scenarios, test cases, traceability matrices, test
evidence, execution reports, and release-quality summaries.
● Perform database and backend validation using SQL.
● Validate APIs and service integrations using tools such as Postman.
● Develop, maintain, and execute automated UI, API, and backend tests.
● Test batch processing systems, scheduled jobs, dependencies, restart/recovery
scenarios, and batch reconciliation.
● Validate Kafka message flows, topics, payloads, and event-driven integrations.
● Perform ETL testing, source-to-target validation, transformation validation, and data
reconciliation.
● Lead defect analysis, triage, resolution tracking, and retesting.
● Estimate QA effort, plan test execution, identify risks, and communicate quality status.
● Mentor junior QA engineers and improve QA practices, reusable test assets, and
automation coverage.
● Contribute to AI-assisted QA and use of GenAI to improve testing efficiency and
coverage.
Required Skills
● 8+ years of QA experience.
● Strong hands-on functional/manual testing experience.
● Strong test automation experience.
● Experience with batch processing and data-intensive systems.
● Experience with Kafka and event-driven systems.
● Experience with ETL/data pipeline testing.
● Strong SQL and database validation experience.
● Experience with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Rest Assured, Java, Python, or
equivalent technologies.
● Experience with Git, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
● Exposure to Azure, Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud-native environments.
● Experience with API testing, particularly REST APIs.
● Exposure to AI-assisted testing/GenAI testing tools.
● Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and leadership skills.
● Banking or financial services experience is strongly preferred.