Quality Assurance Engineering Manager

SpryPoint; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SpryPoint is seeking a QA Engineering Manager to build and lead a dedicated automation function from the ground up in Montreal. This hands-on managerial role splits time roughly 50/50 between guiding the team and writing automated tests, designing the framework, and reviewing code.

You will partner with AI and engineering teams to define QA practices, select tooling, and establish a trusted automation suite on critical flows within the first year.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software quality or engineering, including 3+ years leading and growing engineers.
• Track record of building and scaling quality programs and teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the quality engineering strategy and roadmap across products.
• Remain hands-on: write automated tests, build framework components, and review code with the team.
• Select test automation tooling and frameworks; set standards for squads.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and partner with DevOps on deployments.
• Define quality gates for merges and releases in collaboration with engineering leadership.
• Drive risk-based testing to protect clients and reduce flaky tests.
• Push tests down the stack (API before UI) and empower squads to own quality.
• Hire, coach, and grow automation engineers; raise testing discipline across product squads.
• Own quality metrics and a leadership-trusted dashboard; support go/no-go decisions.
• Evaluate AI-assisted testing tools with human-in-the-loop review.

Skills

QA engineering

Leadership

Automation testing

CI/CD

Tools

Automation frameworks

CI/CD tooling

Job description

The Company

2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Canada Recipient & Fast 500 North America Recipient SpryPoint is modernizing how utilities serve their communities. As a high-growth software company, we're shaking up the status quo in the utility industry with the first and only truly cloud-native customer service and operations platform purpose-built for modern utilities.

Founded by industry veterans in 2011, we've grown from a profitable startup to a rapidly scaling company of 300+ employees serving 100+ utility clients across North America and the Caribbean. Our mission is simple: utility leaders should expect more from their technology providers.

Utilities face urgent demand to replace inefficient legacy systems while managing increasing operational complexity, and evolving customer expectations. With more than a decade of experience, and a track record of successful implementations spanning water, electric, and gas utilities, SpryPoint has built a reputation as a trusted and mission-critical partner to utilities across North America.

We deliver comprehensive solutions including SpryCIS, SpryEngage, SpryMobile, and SpryWallet that modernize the entire meter-to-cash process. What sets us apart? Our "updates, not upgrades" approach, user-centric design, and unwavering focus on customer success.

Backed by strategic investment from Norwest Venture Partners since 2023, and an exciting new investment partnership from Insight Partners announced in 2026, we're accelerating our growth while staying true to our core values: lead with kindness, vision with impact, radical honesty, bold disruption, keep it simple, and execute with excellence.

Join our award-winning team in transforming an essential industry that powers communities across the Americas.

We are standing up a dedicated QA automation function, and we're looking for a QA Engineering Manager to build and lead it from the ground up. This is a rare opportunity to shape a quality practice from scratch: you'll choose the tooling, set the standards, hire the team, and define how AI fits into how we test.

This is a hands-on, player-coach role. You'll split your time roughly 50/50 between leading the team and doing the work yourself: setting direction, hiring, and coaching on one side, and writing automated tests, building framework components, and reviewing code on the other. You'll lead by example and stay close enough to the code to make sound calls and earn the trust of the engineers you lead.

In your first 90 days, you'll start with discovery: partnering with our Principal AI Engineer and AI team to understand existing AI tools and practices, and working with engineering teams to understand current QA practices and define how QA and engineering will collaborate going forward. In parallel, you'll confirm prerequisites (environments, CI/CD, critical user journeys), select your tooling and framework, and stand up a proof-of-concept suite on the highest-risk flows. By the end of year one, you'll have delivered a working, trusted automation suite on critical flows, a small high-performing team, a quality metrics dashboard in active use, and a clear plan for AI adoption.

What You Will Do

• Define and own the quality engineering strategy and roadmap across our products
• Stay hands-on: personally write automated tests, build framework components, and review code alongside the team (roughly half your time)
• Select the test automation tooling and framework, and set the standards squads build on
• Integrate automated testing into our CI/CD pipelines and partner with DevOps on stable, repeatable deployments
• Define quality gates: what blocks a merge and what blocks a release, aligned with engineering leadership and risk
• Drive a risk-based approach to testing so effort goes where it protects clients most
• Push tests down the stack (API before UI), drive down the flaky-test rate, and enable squads so the practice doesn't depend on any one person
• Hire, coach, and grow a team of automation engineers, and raise testing discipline across product squads
• Own quality metrics and a dashboard that leadership trusts, providing objective signals for go/no-go release decisions
• Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted testing tools (test generation, self-healing tests, defect triage, agentic testing) through a practical, hybrid model, while keeping a human-in-the-loop standard so AI-generated tests and code are reviewed, not trusted blindly

What You Bring

• 7+ years in software quality or engineering, including 3+ years leading and growing engineers
• A track record of building