Senior QA Lead: Automation & Manual Testing Leader

Maarut; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Maarut is seeking a Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist to oversee QA processes for both manual and automated testing. The role leads a team of QA engineers, designs testing strategies, and ensures high-quality software throughout the SDLC in a Toronto-based environment.

Ideal candidates will have 10+ years in testing, strong automation skills with Selenium, Playwright, or Appium, and experience coordinating cross-functional teams and test data preparation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in planning, organizing, and implementing testing efforts.
• Experience reviewing API specs and validating schemas and payloads.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, Agile & DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop test strategies and plans for large GUI and non-GUI systems.
• Lead QA engineers and coordinate testing across integration, functional, and regression tests.
• Create, maintain, and execute automated test scripts for functional, regression, and integration testing.

Skills

Test strategy

Test planning

Automation testing

Team leadership

SDLC understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Testing

Tools

Selenium

Appium

Playwright

Postman

RESTAssured

Job description

Maarut is seeking a Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist to oversee QA processes for both manual and automated testing. The role leads a team of QA engineers, designs testing strategies, and ensures high-quality software throughout the SDLC in a Toronto-based environment.

Ideal candidates will have 10+ years in testing, strong automation skills with Selenium, Playwright, or Appium, and experience coordinating cross-functional teams and test data preparation.