Senior SDET & Quality Engineering Architect (Remote)

Kelly; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kelly in Mississauga, ON is seeking a Senior SDET / Quality Engineering Architect to lead quality engineering strategy for high-throughput trading platforms. You will design scalable automation frameworks, integrate AI-driven testing, and establish automated quality gates across global teams.

You will drive shift-left automation, lead API, UI, and data validation testing, and mentor distributed teams across North America and APAC.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in software development and quality engineering.
• 3+ years in Lead SDET / QA Architect role.
• Experience in financial services, capital markets, FinTech, or trading platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, cloud-native test automation frameworks.
• Drive shift-left and in-sprint automation for UI, APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems.
• Architect API, contract, and data validation testing.
• Integrate AI/GenAI-assisted testing and self-healing automation.
• Lead performance, load, latency, resilience, and failover testing.
• Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Core Java

Leadership

Automation strategy

Cloud testing

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/SE

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

REST Assured

JUnit/TestNG

JMeter/Gatling

Job description

Kelly in Mississauga, ON is seeking a Senior SDET / Quality Engineering Architect to lead quality engineering strategy for high-throughput trading platforms. You will design scalable automation frameworks, integrate AI-driven testing, and establish automated quality gates across global teams.

You will drive shift-left automation, lead API, UI, and data validation testing, and mentor distributed teams across North America and APAC.