QA Lead

QA Lead

● Location: Toronto, Canada

● Work Model: Hybrid

● Experience: 8+ years

● Domain: Banking / Financial Services

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced QA Lead to lead functional quality assurance activities for

complex banking and financial applications. The role requires strong hands-on functional and

manual testing expertise, practical test automation experience, database validation skills, and

the ability to lead QA activities across complex enterprise implementations.

The QA Lead will own end-to-end test coverage across backend processes, APIs, integrations,

file-based workflows, batch processing, and data validation. The role will work closely with

developers, business analysts, product teams, technical consultants, and other QA engineers to

ensure high-quality releases.

Key Responsibilities

● Lead functional, regression, integration, system, and end-to-end testing for complex

applications.

● Analyze business and technical requirements and identify test scenarios, coverage gaps,

and quality risks.

● Develop and maintain test plans, test scenarios, test cases, traceability matrices, test

evidence, execution reports, and release-quality summaries.

● Perform database and backend validation using SQL.

● Validate APIs and service integrations using tools such as Postman.

● Develop, maintain, and execute automated UI, API, and backend tests.

● Test batch processing systems, scheduled jobs, dependencies, restart/recovery

scenarios, and batch reconciliation.

● Validate Kafka message flows, topics, payloads, and event-driven integrations.

● Perform ETL testing, source-to-target validation, transformation validation, and data

reconciliation.

● Lead defect analysis, triage, resolution tracking, and retesting.

● Estimate QA effort, plan test execution, identify risks, and communicate quality status.

● Mentor junior QA engineers and improve QA practices, reusable test assets, and

automation coverage.

● Contribute to AI-assisted QA and use of GenAI to improve testing efficiency and

coverage.

Required Skills

● 8+ years of QA experience.

● Strong hands-on functional/manual testing experience.

● Strong test automation experience.

● Experience with batch processing and data-intensive systems.

● Experience with Kafka and event-driven systems.

● Experience with ETL/data pipeline testing.

● Strong SQL and database validation experience.

● Experience with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Rest Assured, Java, Python, or

equivalent technologies.

● Experience with Git, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.

● Exposure to Azure, Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud-native environments.

● Experience with API testing, particularly REST APIs.

● Exposure to AI-assisted testing/GenAI testing tools.

● Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and leadership skills.

● Banking or financial services experience is strongly preferred.