06 Sep
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Socket.dev
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Toronto
06 Sep
Socket.dev
Toronto
Technology Solutions 149,500 - $183,500 CADThe pay details posted reflect a temporary market premium specific to this role that is reassessed annually. TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role.
We are seeking an experienced Quality Engineering leader to define and drive the quality strategy for our Property & Casualty Insurance technology portfolio. This role will lead the transformation from traditional QA practices to a modern, automation-first, AI-enabled Quality Engineering model across Guidewire Cloud platforms and associated digital, integration, and data ecosystems. The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing enterprise quality standards, governance, automation frameworks, test data strategies, and release quality controls across Policy Administration, Billing, Claims, Digital, Data, and Integration platforms.
This leader will partner closely with business leaders, architecture teams, product technology leaders, DevOps teams, and delivery partners to ensure continuous improvement in quality, speed, and reliability. The role requires hands‑on technical expertise, strong leadership capabilities, and deep insurance domain knowledge to drive quality outcomes across multiple programs, teams, and vendors.
Quality Engineering
Strategy &
• Governance Define and execute the Quality Engineering (QE) strategy for Property &
• Casualty Insurance platforms. Establish quality standards, testing methodologies, governance processes, and release readiness criteria. Define quality gates, defect prevention practices, release health indicators, and go/no-go decision frameworks. Develop and communicate quality metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting that provide visibility into product and release health. Test Automation &
• Continuous Testing Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of enterprise automation frameworks supporting UI, API, integration, regression, and data testing. Establish continuous testing practices integrated into CI/CD pipelines. Drive adoption of risk‑based testing approaches to optimize coverage and accelerate delivery. Promote reusable automation assets and engineering best practices across teams. AI-Enabled Quality Engineering Champion the adoption of AI and Generative AI capabilities within the testing lifecycle. Implement AI‑assisted test generation, requirement‑to‑test traceability, defect analysis, coverage optimization, and self‑healing automation. Evaluate emerging quality engineering technologies and integrate innovative solutions into the QE operating model. Delivery &
• Test Management Provide overall test delivery leadership across large‑scale transformation programs and initiatives. Oversee functional, integration, end‑to‑end, API, system, regression, performance, operability, and deployment validation testing. Manage testing dependencies, risks, issues, environments, and stakeholder expectations across multiple workstreams. Ensure timely status reporting, escalation management, and successful execution of release activities.
Engineering Enablement
Define enterprise strategies for test data management, service virtualization, and environment management. Establish processes for automation governance, framework maintenance, and engineering excellence. Drive integration of testing capabilities into DevOps and cloud delivery pipelines. Build and lead a high‑performing Quality Engineering practice, including onshore, offshore, and vendor teams. Develop career paths, certification programs, capability frameworks, and communities of practice.
Coach Quality
Engineering leaders, automation architects, and test managers. Govern managed testing services and vendor performance to ensure quality, productivity, and value realization.
Insurance Domain Quality Assurance
Ensure comprehensive testing coverage for: Policy lifecycle management Billing and payments Digital customer experiences Integration ecosystems and data services 10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and Quality Engineering, including enterprise‑scale testing and automation. ~5+ years in a senior Quality Engineering leadership role managing large transformation programs. ~ Proven experience leading Quality Engineering teams across multiple programs, business units, and delivery organizations. ~ Demonstrated success managing distributed, hybrid, and offshore delivery models. Strong understanding of insurance business processes, rating, underwriting, policy administration, billing, and payments.
Technical Skills
Expertise in test automation frameworks and tools, including: Strong experience with API, integration, and end‑to‑end automation. Deep knowledge of test data management and service virtualization solutions.
Experience implementing automation within CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. Cloud & DevOps Strong experience with cloud‑native delivery and DevOps platforms, including: AWS Azure DevOps ~ Experience integrating automated testing into cloud deployment pipelines. Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
Ability to influence senior technology and business leaders. Proven ability to scale, mentor, and lead teams of Quality Engineers, Automation Architects, and Test Leads.
Experience leading Guidewire Cloud transformation programs from QE side. Hands‑on experience with AI/Generative AI testing solutions and modern quality engineering platforms. Knowledge of enterprise test data management tools such as CA Test Data Manager (CA TDM).
Experience establishing enterprise Quality Engineering Centers of Excellence (CoE). Increased automation coverage and reduced manual testing effort. Improved release quality and reduced escaped defects.
Faster delivery cycles through continuous testing and DevOps integration. Successful adoption of AI‑assisted quality engineering practices. Development of a scalable, high‑performing Quality Engineering organization.
TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.
Our Total
Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well‑being goals.
Total
Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well‑being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking perks and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs. We’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.
If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. If you’re passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.
Here at TD, we hire and develop the best. Training & Onboarding We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.
Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.
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