Remote QA Architect: Automation & Quality Strategy

Cardata; Canada; Remote; CAD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Mentorship and development

Extended medical & dental benefits

Health spending account

Wellness Spending Account

EAP

Unlimited paid time off

Job summary

Cardata is seeking a QA Architect to own quality strategy, automation, and CI enforcement across engineering. You will design scalable test frameworks, embed automated gates into CI/CD, and lead shift-left quality practices that prevent bugs early in development.

With 7–10+ years in software quality, you will mentor engineers, drive reliability, and ensure robust testing across web, APIs, and data layers in a remote Canada-wide team.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years in software quality including senior ownership of QA strategy and automation.
• Experience as a QA Architect, Staff/Principal SDET, or similar.
• Proven track record building and scaling test automation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end quality strategy across web, APIs, and data layers.
• Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to catch regressions.
• Lead design of test infrastructure and shift-left quality practices.
• Mentor engineers and QA team members on automation and testing practices.
• Partner with DevOps/Platform to ensure production-like test environments.

Job description

Cardata is seeking a QA Architect to own quality strategy, automation, and CI enforcement across engineering. You will design scalable test frameworks, embed automated gates into CI/CD, and lead shift-left quality practices that prevent bugs early in development.

With 7–10+ years in software quality, you will mentor engineers, drive reliability, and ensure robust testing across web, APIs, and data layers in a remote Canada-wide team.