Technical Quality Engineering Lead

AutoTrader.ca; Ontario; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Technical QE Lead to enhance software quality through innovative testing practices. This role involves defining testing standards, mentoring teams, and ensuring adherence to best practices in both manual and automated testing. You will collaborate with agile teams to optimize workflows and integrate AI-driven solutions, driving efficiency and innovation. The company values work-life balance and offers a supportive environment with numerous perks, including gym discounts, wellness programs, and a competitive salary with bonuses. If you're passionate about quality assurance and leading teams, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Gym Discounts

Onsite Gyms

Employee and Family Assistance Program

Weekly Virtual Wellness Events

Conferences & Training Budget

Regular Internal Training Programs

3% CPP Matching

Annual Bonus Structure

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software testing and development.
• Expertise in manual and automated testing with strong programming skills.

Responsibilities

• Define quality testing standards and metrics for products.
• Coach and mentor development and QA teams on testing best practices.

Skills

Software Testing

Automation Testing

Java

JavaScript

Python

Agile Methodologies

Coaching and Mentoring

Load Testing

Tools

Selenium

Junit/testNG

JMeter

Git

Jira

Confluence

Job description

TRADER Corporation is a trusted Canadian leader in online media, dealer and lender services. The company is comprised of AutoTrader.ca, AutoSync and Dealertrack Canada. AutoTrader.ca (AutoHebdo.net in Quebec) offers the largest inventory of new cars and used cars in Canada, receiving over 25 million monthly visits to its marketplace. With over 3,500 subscribers and counting, AutoSync is the largest and fastest growing dealer and OEM software provider in Canada. The platform's suite of connected automotive software solutions brings advertising, conversion and operational support together, synchronizing the entire retail process. AutoSync's diverse range of offerings includes: vAuto, EasyDeal, xtime, Motoinsight, Activix, TAdvantage and TRFFK. Dealertrack is Canada’s largest automotive financing portal, enhancing efficiency and profitability for all major segments of the automotive, marine, recreational vehicle, motorcycle and powersport retail industries. Over 6.5 million credit applications are submitted via the Dealertrack Canada portal each year. Collateral Management is a national, end-to-end, managed technology solution that offers industry insight and multi-channel collection strategies to maximize funds recovered. Collateral Management helps you remain compliant in all jurisdictions, alleviating your exposure to reputational and financial risks.

Experience leveraging AI, Generative AI (GenAI) to enhance engineering productivity, automate repetitive tasks, and optimize workflows. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to integrate AI-driven solutions into their daily work — such as code generation, debugging, reviews, documentation, and decision support—to improve efficiency for themselves and their teams. A proactive approach to exploring and implementing AI tools that drive innovation and streamline development processes is highly valued.

The Technical QE Lead works across agile teams to ensure they meet functional, performance, and code standard requirements. This role requires that software engineering best practices be applied to the domain of software quality testing. Working closely with engineering managers, product owners, and other agile team members, the SDET ensures that the desired results for our services are achieved, maintained and following up to date industry standards.

What You Will Do:

1. Defining quality testing standards and metrics for our products and projects.
2. Continually improve our testing standards, tools and processes.
3. Defining best practices for test coverage, automation and the general testing lifecycle.
4. Coach and mentor the development and QA team on testing best practices.
5. Communicating with all stakeholders to ensure that the quality metrics are agreed upon and continually reviewed.
6. Ensure testing metrics are visible via reporting and dashboards.
7. Ensuring all development tasks meet quality standards through test planning, test execution, quality assurance and defect tracking.
8. Develop and ensure a strategy that favors test automation over manual testing.
9. Maintain and expand existing automation frameworks or automation partners.
10. Ensure proper test plan and stakeholders review process.
11. Ensure proper coverage of various testing strategies like unit, functional, performance, stress, acceptance, etc.
12. Be a point of contact for all the escalations related to testing and quality assurance.
13. Assist in creating quality assurance objectives.
14. Work with the team to improve the CI/CD and deployment pipeline.

What You Bring To The Table:

1. Experience leading and coaching distributed teams of SDETs.
2. An expert in both manual and automated testing.
3. Strong programming skills and software development best practices (Java, JavaScript, Python, etc).
4. Strong knowledge of testing frameworks such as Junit/testNG with Selenium, Playwright.
5. Experience with load testing using JMeter, or similar.

Must Have Experience:

1. 6+ years hands-on software testing and development experience.
2. Strong knowledge of the “Test Pyramid” and testing strategies.
3. Hands-on experience with automation and automation environment requirements.
4. Automation testing, test case development, test execution, test results analysis, and test optimization.
5. Web-application mobile testing and automation experience.
6. Experience in the creation, maintenance and optimization of automation frameworks including management of test reporting.
7. Experience working within a formal CI/CD pipeline.
8. Good understanding of version control tools such as GIT.
9. Agile team and methodology experience.

Nice-To-Have Experience:

1. Experience in BDD/TDD.
2. AWS code pipeline - build and deployment experience.
3. Jira/Confluence experience.
4. Kanban tools and processes experience.
5. New Relic hands-on experience.

What’s in it for you…

We understand that there is life at work and life outside of work. Here are a few benefits we all benefit from that support us to be our creative best.

Fitness and wellness:

We provide discounts to nation-wide gyms, onsite gyms (when we’re in the office), an Employee and Family Assistance Program, as well as a virtual wellness program.

Benefits from Day 1:

• Gym discounts
• Local in-office free gyms
• Employee and Family Assistance program
• Weekly virtual wellness events
• Conferences & training budget
• Regular internal training programs

Financial planning:

Let us help you invest in your future with 3% matching towards your pension and multiple forms of income protection.

Competitive salary:

Annual bonus structure

3% CPP matching