Senior QA Lead - Hybrid, Banking & Payments

Expleo; Quebec; Hybrid; CAD 161,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Hybrid work model

Career development

Leadership impact

Collaborative culture

Enterprise‑scale initiatives

Job summary

Trissential, hiring for a QA Lead in Montreal, seeks a seasoned QA professional to lead quality initiatives across multiple squads and enterprise payment programs. You will influence testing standards, partner with senior stakeholders, and drive automation and quality transformation in a banking/payment context.

The role combines hands‑on testing with strategic leadership, requiring strong API and event‑driven testing expertise, cross‑team coordination, and a commitment to quality in a large

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in software quality assurance or QA engineering.
• Experience leading testing across multiple teams, delivery streams, or enterprise initiatives.
• Strong API testing experience and validation of requests, responses, payloads, and integrations.
• Experience testing event‑driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka.
• Proven experience developing test strategies, plans, estimates, and quality reporting.
• Strong ability to coordinate testing activities and manage cross‑functional stakeholder expectations.
• Bilingual French and English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate testing activities across multiple squads, projects, releases, and payment initiatives.
• Establish and champion consistent testing standards, quality practices, and delivery processes across teams.
• Develop and maintain integrated test strategies, test plans, and quality approaches aligned to business objectives.
• Coordinate testing schedules, resource planning, environments, and cross‑team dependencies.
• Facilitate defect triage activities and ensure critical issues are prioritized and resolved.
• Provide testing metrics, quality status reporting, and risk‑based recommendations to leadership and stakeholders.
• Mentor QA team members and promote best practices in quality assurance and quality engineering.
• Collaborate with product, business, architecture, and development teams to embed quality throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Design, document, and execute test cases for banking and payment transaction workflows across APIs and integrations.
• Validate solution quality, resilience, and testability across the SDLC.

Skills

QA leadership

API testing

Event‑driven testing

Test strategy

Agile

Stakeholder management

Bilingual French/English

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/IT

Tools

Jira

CI/CD familiarity

Job description

Trissential, hiring for a QA Lead in Montreal, seeks a seasoned QA professional to lead quality initiatives across multiple squads and enterprise payment programs. You will influence testing standards, partner with senior stakeholders, and drive automation and quality transformation in a banking/payment context.

The role combines hands‑on testing with strategic leadership, requiring strong API and event‑driven testing expertise, cross‑team coordination, and a commitment to quality in a large