Quality Assurance Engineer

Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group Ltd.; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group Ltd. is seeking an experienced QA Engineer to join our Enterprise Projects team. You will shape QA strategy, establish best practices, and drive automation frameworks across the organization.

Collaborate with developers, analysts, and stakeholders to validate complex systems and data, ensuring quality aligns with business needs. Office+remote hybrid work model is offered in Canada.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software quality assurance in enterprise environments.
• Strong manual testing experience: functional, integration, and regression.
• Hands-on experience building or maintaining automated testing frameworks.
• Knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and defect tracking (JIRA/Azure DevOps).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern development practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end test strategies for functional, integration, regression and non-functional testing.
• Develop, maintain, and scale test plans, cases, and automated scripts across environments.
• Validate data integrity and system outputs against business rules and downstream impacts.
• Identify quality risks early and support release decisions with root-cause analysis.
• Manage defect lifecycle with clear documentation and prioritization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure testability and alignment with objectives.
• Expand test automation to improve coverage and reduce manual effort.

Skills

Manual Testing

Automation Testing

CI/CD

Test Plans

JIRA/Azure DevOps

Tools

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Test Automation Frameworks

Job description

Interested in joining one of Canada’s top performing asset managers? We are looking for a experienced QA Engineer,for an existing vacancy in our Enterprise Projects team to help build and shape our Quality Assurance function. This role will be instrumental in establishing QA strategies, best practices, tools, and automation frameworks across the organization. You will take ownership of quality, ensuring systems and solutions are thoroughly tested, reliable, and aligned with both technical and business expectations. Working closely with developers, business analysts, and stakeholders, you will bring a structured, detail-oriented approach to validating complex systems and data. This is an opportunity to influence testing standards, improve delivery quality, and contribute to a growing, collaborative team. Our offices currently operate on a hybrid model with a combination of in-office and remote working days throughout the week.

What You Will Do

• Design and execute comprehensive end-to-end test strategies covering functional, integration, regression, and non-functional testing to ensure complete validation of system behaviour and business processes.
• Develop, maintain, and scale test plans, test cases, and automated test scripts, enabling repeatable, efficient, and high-quality testing across multiple environments and application layers.
• Validate data integrity, calculations, and system outputs, ensuring consistency with business rules and identifying downstream impacts across interconnected enterprise systems and workflows.
• Proactively identify, assess, and communicate quality risks, gaps, and failure points early in the development lifecycle to support informed release decisions and reduce production issues.
• Manage the full defect lifecycle, ensuring issues are clearly documented, prioritized, tracked, and resolved in collaboration with development teams and stakeholders.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, review solution designs, and ensure systems are testable, scalable, and aligned with business objectives.
• Leverage and expand test automation frameworks and tools to improve testing coverage, efficiency, and reliability while reducing manual effort and execution time.
• Support UAT, release validation, and production issue investigation, using root cause analysis to continuously improve system quality and prevent recurring defects.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of experience in software quality assurance within enterprise environments, with a strong track record of designing and executing comprehensive testing strategies.
• Deep expertise in manual testing, including functional, integration, and regression testing, combined with hands-on experience building or maintaining automated testing frameworks.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, tools, and best practices, including test management and defect tracking systems like JIRA or Azure DevOps.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and modern development practices to support continuous testing and high-quality software delivery.
• Solid analytical, problem-solving, and data validation skills, with a high attention to detail and the ability to identify complex system issues and edge cases.
• Experience working in Agile environments, collaborating effectively with distributed teams and managing multiple priorities in fast-paced delivery cycles.
• A continuous improvement mindset, with curiosity to learn new tools and technologies, and a passion for enhancing testing standards, processes, and overall product quality.

The salary range for this position is $100,000 - $120,000. The salary range provided reflects the base salary range for this position as required by legislation. In addition, there is an annual performance bonus which contributes to the total compensation for this position. Further questions may be directed to the HR team during the interview process.

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For a closer look at how you can build your career with us, we invite you to explore cclgroup.com .

CC&L Financial Group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or expression, disability, or age.

Your application will be reviewed by a member of the hiring team - AI is not used in the screening, assessment or selection of applications at this time.

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