Enterprise QA Automation Lead | Quality & Performance Engineering

Michael Page International (Canada); Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Page International (Canada) is seeking a senior automation leader for Canada-wide initiatives in insurance. You will drive the implementation, growth and adoption of test automation across the enterprise and lead an Automation First mandate across testing.

The successful candidate will have 8+ years in IT, with strong QA, performance testing and environment management, plus leadership experience within the insurance sector.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, CS, or related field.
• Automation tools certification is an asset.
• PM certification is an asset.
• 8+ years progressive IT experience.
• 5+ years in applications testing, QA, quality engineering, performance testing and env management.
• 2+ years people leadership in insurance industry.
• Experience with functional and non-functional test design & execution.
• Strong SDLC & Agile Scrum knowledge; leadership of QA teams.
• Understanding of enterprise DevOps.
• Experience with testing and automation tools like Jira, Confluence, LoadRunner, Selenium, Ranorex, Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Drive implementation and adoption of test automation across enterprise.
• Lead an Automation First mandate across testing.
• Define and improve QA policies and procedures.
• Design, measure, report, and improve automation and system performance metrics.
• Manage budgets with proven cost management.
• Collaborate to develop performance engineering and lead performance testing.
• Support environment management for testing and production launches.
• Design systems to support CD and on-demand automation.
• Develop tech roadmap for automation, performance testing and release tools.
• Partner with leaders to align quality needs with roadmap.
• Coach and mentor team members to excel in roles.

Skills

Automation leadership

Performance testing

Quality engineering

SDLC & Agile

DevOps understanding

Budget management

Vendor management

Jira/Confluence

Load testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science

Automation tools certification

Project Management certification

Tools

LoadRunner

Selenium

Ranorex

Jenkins

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Michael Page International (Canada) is seeking a senior automation leader for Canada-wide initiatives in insurance. You will drive the implementation, growth and adoption of test automation across the enterprise and lead an Automation First mandate across testing.

The successful candidate will have 8+ years in IT, with strong QA, performance testing and environment management, plus leadership experience within the insurance sector.