QE Lead - Automation

Capgemini; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Paid time off

RRSP/401k-equivalent

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a skilled Quality Engineering QE Lead to drive API testing and test automation, leveraging AI-enabled quality practices. You will design scalable automation frameworks, mentor teams, and partner across Product, Development, and DevOps to ensure high-quality delivery of enterprise applications.

The role focuses on guiding end-to-end QE strategy, automation roadmaps, and governance, while delivering robust API test coverage and integration with CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in API testing and test automation.
• Experience designing and implementing API automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of API lifecycle management and contract validation.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled quality engineering practices and automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead QE activities across programs and agile teams.
• Define QE strategy, automation roadmap, and quality governance.
• Design and implement scalable API automation frameworks from scratch.
• Create reusable automation components, utilities, and reporting frameworks.
• Design API test scenarios covering functional, integration, regression, and security validations.
• Review requirements and API contracts to ensure coverage and quality controls.
• Drive shift-left testing and automation-first mindset across teams.
• Integrate automated tests into CICD pipelines for faster releases.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, Architects, and DevOps.
• Define and track quality metrics and KPIs; lead root cause analysis for incidents.
• Lead preventative quality improvements.

Skills

API Testing

REST & SOAP

API Automation

Postman & Tools

CI/CD Integration

Quality Engineering

Tools

Postman

Newman

Rest Assured

Karate

ReadyAPI

SoapUI

Swagger/OpenAPI

Job description

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired bya collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizationsunlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

Job Description

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Quality Engineering QE Lead with strong expertise in API testing test automation and AI enabled quality engineering practices. The ideal candidate will lead end to end quality initiatives design and implement scalable automation frameworks from scratch and drive adoption of modern testing approaches leveraging AI and intelligent automation. This role requires a hands on technical leader who can define quality strategy mentor teams and ensure high quality delivery across enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Quality Engineering activities across multiple programs and agile teams ensuring quality is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle
• Define and execute QE strategy automation roadmap testing standards and quality governance practices
• Design develop and implement scalable API automation frameworks from scratch using modern automation technologies and industry best practices
• Create and maintain reusable automation components utilities libraries and reporting frameworks to improve test efficiency and maintainability
• Design comprehensive API test scenarios and automated test cases covering Functional Integration Regression Negative E2E testing and security validations
• Review business requirements technical specifications API contracts and architecture designs to ensure adequate test coverage and quality controls
• Drive automation first and shift left testing practices across project teams
• Integrate automated test suites into CICD pipelines to enable continuous testing and faster release cycles
• Collaborate with Product Owners Business Analysts Developers Architects and DevOps teams to identify quality risks and mitigation strategies
• Define and track quality metrics automation coverage defect leakage release readiness and overall quality KPIs
• Lead root cause analysis for production incidents and implement preventative quality improvements

Required Technical Skills

• API Testing Automation
• Strong hands on experience testing REST APIs SOAP Services Microservices and Event Driven Architectures
• Expertise in API testing tools such as Postman, Newman Rest Assured Karate Framework Ready API SoapUI Swagger Open API
• Proven experience building and implementing API automation frameworks from the ground up
• Strong understanding of API lifecycle management and contract validation.

The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is: 80,000 - 87,273.

Capgemini provides compensation range information in accordance with applicable national, state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws. The base compensation range listed for this position reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation Capgemini, in good faith, believes it may pay for the role at the time of this posting. This range may be subject to change as permitted by law.

The actual compensation offered to any candidate may fall outside of the posted range and will be determined based on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction.

These may include, but are not limited to: Geographic location, Education and qualifications, Certifications and licenses, Relevant experience and skills, Seniority and performance, Market and business consideration, Internal pay equity.

It is not typical for candidates to be hired at or near the top of the posted compensation range.

In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for additional compensation such as variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on the position and applicable laws.

Capgemini offers a comprehensive, non-negotiable benefits package to all regular, full-time employees.

In the U.S. and Canada, available benefits are determined by local policy and eligibility and may include:

• Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
• Life and disability insurance
• Employee assistance programs
• Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility

Important Notice

Compensation (including bonuses, commissions, or other forms of incentive pay) is not considered earned, vested, or payable until it becomes due under the terms of applicable plans or agreements and is subject to Capgemini’s discretion, consistent with applicable laws. The Company reserves the right to amend or withdraw compensation programs at any time, within the limits of applicable legislation.

Disclaimers

Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging inclusion in the workplace. Capgemini also participates in the Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations (PAIR) program which supports meaningful engagement with Indigenous communities across Canada by promoting fairness, accessibility, inclusion and respect. We value the rich cultural heritage and contributions of Indigenous Peoples and actively work to create a welcoming and respectful environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.