QA Lead

Providius; Hamilton; Hybrid; CAD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Providius, based in Hamilton, Ontario, is seeking a QA Lead to own quality across engineering. You will define the test strategy, build automated suites for unit to end-to-end testing, and lead performance, API, and contract testing across services.

You’ll develop tooling, data validation approaches, and CI/CD gates while mentoring the team. You will work with a small, autonomous team on real-time systems and high-stakes environments, with opportunities to grow into technical leadership and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software quality or test engineering with lead responsibilities.
• Hands-on experience designing automated test suites across all levels.
• Experience with performance, load, and stress testing of real-time systems.
• Experience with API and contract testing across services.
• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into test plans.
• Strong programming ability for test automation and tooling.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration in a team.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the overall test and quality strategy across engineering.
• Build and maintain automated test suites across unit, integration, E2E, and regression testing.
• Establish performance, load, stress, and soak testing for high-throughput systems.
• Lead API and contract testing across services and boundaries.
• Develop test tooling, fixtures, mocks, and simulation environments.
• Stand up data validation and ML model validation approaches.
• Build and maintain CI/CD test gates and release-readiness checks.
• Drive non-functional testing including security and resilience testing.
• Debug and investigate issues across the system, including production.
• Set quality standards and mentor others on testing practices.
• Work with pytest, JUnit, Playwright or Cypress for testing.
• Utilize Postman, k6 or JMeter for API and load testing.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and coverage reporting.
• Use JIRA and Bitbucket for issue tracking and source control.

Skills

Test automation

API testing

Load testing

Contract testing

Test tooling

Debugging

Communication

Team collaboration

Tools

pytest

JUnit

Playwright

Cypress

Postman

k6

JMeter

JIRA

Bitbucket

Job description

Location: 120 King Street West,
Hamilton, ON L8P 4V2

// About Providius

Providius has been at the forefront of innovation in the Media & Entertainment industry for over a decade, delivering cutting-edge solutions to tackle the most pressing challenges organizations face utilizing IP media and IT infrastructures in high-stakes, mission-critical environments. Headquartered in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, our privately held company is dedicated to engineering products and solutions that “just make sense.”

Our team works closely with an extensive network of technical partners to proactively address evolving needs. Our customer-centric approach ensures our clients receive strong support and tailored solutions that drive results.

We’re looking for a QA lead to own quality across our engineering work, from defining test strategy to building the tooling and processes that keep our systems reliable. You’ll work across the stack and partner closely with engineering to catch issues early and raise the bar on quality.

This role is ideal for someone who is comfortable operating with autonomy, can work through ambiguity, and takes ownership of quality end to end. You’ll set the direction for testing and validation as the team grows.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Define and own the overall test and quality strategy across engineering
• Build and maintain automated test suites across unit, integration, end-to-end, and regression testing
• Establish performance, load, stress, and soak testing for high-throughput, real-time systems
• Lead API and contract testing across services and integration boundaries
• Develop test tooling, fixtures, mocks, and simulation environments, including synthetic and scenario-based data
• Stand up data validation and ML model validation approaches where ground truth is limited
• Build and maintain CI/CD test gates, smoke tests, and release-readiness checks
• Drive non-functional testing including security, resilience, and chaos or fault-injection testing
• Debug and investigate issues across the system, including production environments when needed
• Set quality standards and mentor others on testing practices as the team grows
• Test frameworks: pytest, JUnit, Playwright or Cypress
• API and load testing: Postman, k6 or JMeter
• CI/CD: automated pipelines, test gates, coverage reporting
• Tools: JIRA, Bitbucket

Required Skills / Experience

• 5+ years in software quality, test engineering, or a closely related role, including lead or senior responsibility
• Hands-on experience designing automated test suites across unit, integration, end-to-end, and regression testing
• Experience with performance, load, and stress testing of data-intensive or real-time systems
• Experience with API and contract testing across distributed services
• Ability to take ambiguous requirements and turn them into clear test plans
• Strong programming ability for test automation and tooling
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
• Effective communication and collaboration in a team environment

Nice to haves

• Experience validating data pipelines or machine learning systems
• Familiarity with simulation, synthetic data, or scenario-based testing
• Experience with chaos, fault-injection, or resilience testing
• Experience with security testing and test data management
• Familiarity with networking concepts (a strong plus in our domain)

Why join Providius:

• Work on systems that operate in real-time, high-stakes environments
• Small team with high ownership and direct impact
• Opportunity to grow into architecture and technical leadership