- 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.

- Solid 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.

📌 QA Lead (Toronto)
🏢 Kastech Software Solutions Group
📍 Toronto