QA Team Lead

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

📋 Description

• Enhance CentriLogic’s Quality Assurance (QA) practice by spearheading the QA workstream during client engagements.

• Establish the testing strategy, define the scope, set entry and exit criteria, and implement measures for release readiness.

• Organize testing across both Azure and on-premises environments, including preparing the environment, configuring it, and managing test data.

• Assess QA efforts, delegate tasks, and monitor progress effectively.

• Supervise functional and regression test suites while determining the balance between automation and manual testing.

• Organize and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), prepare scripts and test data, conduct sessions, gather feedback, track defects, and report on acceptance readiness.

• Lead defect triage sessions with developers, business analysts, and project managers.

• Ensure traceability from requirements and user stories to corresponding test cases and defects.

• Communicate status updates, risks, and quality metrics to stakeholders and engagement leads.

• Develop and sustain web UI, API, and integration automation frameworks.

• Create API and integration tests for .NET services and related systems.

• Integrate automated regression testing into CI/CD pipelines and execute parallel suites when beneficial.

• Monitor flaky tests and uphold a swift, reliable regression suite.

• Promote responsible AI utilization in testing through human oversight of AI-generated outputs.

• Leverage AI to draft test plans, test cases, test data, and automation code, as well as analyze requirements, defects, and regression risks.

• Test AI functionalities while accommodating variable responses.

• Experiment with new tools and AI methodologies, assess outcomes, and disseminate enhancements.

• Mentor QA practitioners, set objectives, and provide constructive feedback.

• Report on defect leakage, automation coverage, test stability, UAT completion, and overall release readiness.

• Contribute to reusable QA templates, accelerators, estimating guidelines, and proposal contributions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in software quality assurance, including a minimum of 2 years in a leadership role overseeing a QA team or workstream.

• Demonstrated success in delivering functional, regression, and UAT testing for custom enterprise applications, including web, API, and integration layers.

• Familiarity with testing applications developed on Azure and .NET, whether hosted in the cloud, on-premises, or both.

• Practical experience in building test automation using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or similar, employing languages like C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python.

• Proficient in managing test cases, defects, and requirement traceability using Azure DevOps Test Plans, Jira, or comparable tools.

• Experience in executing automated tests within CI/CD pipelines.

• Knowledge of utilizing generative AI in testing tasks and exercising sound judgment in reviewing its outputs.

• History of introducing a new tool, technique, or AI strategy that enhanced testing efforts.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with executives, business users, and technical teams.

• Preferred qualifications include experience with C# and .NET, AI feature testing, accessibility testing, ISTQB or relevant Microsoft certification, Microsoft Power Platform, consulting/professional services, and conducting remote delivery across different time zones.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time employment.

• Remote work flexibility.