QA Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Develop, review, and uphold Playwright tests that encompass essential user flows, APIs, and regression suites.

• Mentor and enhance the manual QA team through collaborative efforts, code reviews, and practical guidance.

• Establish the architecture, patterns, and conventions for the test automation framework.

• Incorporate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines while collaborating with DevOps on test environments and data management.

• Utilize AI coding agents to expedite the creation, maintenance, and debugging of tests, ensuring the validity of their output.

• Define acceptance criteria, test plans, release readiness standards, and quality metrics.

• Maintain high confidence in money movement, banking, and compliance-sensitive operations.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Design, and DevOps teams to ensure comprehensive quality ownership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in software quality, including more than 2 years in QA leadership while remaining actively involved.

• Strong and current hands-on expertise in creating and managing test automation frameworks using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar tools, primarily with TypeScript/JavaScript.

• Experience in testing web applications and APIs, including GraphQL, REST, test data management, and environment configuration.

• Proven ability to coach manual testers into automation and successfully integrate tests into CI/CD workflows.

• Practical experience with AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar, along with the ability to critically evaluate their output.

• Excellent communication skills with the capacity to influence quality practices across engineering and product teams.

• Experience in testing AI/LLM-powered features, which includes creating evaluation sets, defining pass criteria for non-deterministic outputs, and conducting evaluations in CI.

• Familiarity with FinTech, banking, payments, or integrations with Stripe, Plaid, or BaaS providers is preferred.

• Knowledge of performance, load, security, visual regression, contract testing, or test observability tools is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salaries.

• Comprehensive benefits.

• Opportunity to contribute to the development of a new product and culture from the ground up.

• Monthly team-building events.