- Location: Toronto, Canada- Work Model: Hybrid- Experience: 8+ years- Domain: Banking / Financial ServicesRole OverviewWe are looking for an experienced QA Lead to lead functional quality assurance activities forcomplex banking and financial applications. The role requires strong hands-on functional andmanual testing expertise, practical test automation experience, database validation skills, andthe 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 withdevelopers, business analysts, product teams, technical consultants, and other QA engineers toensure 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.- Robust 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.#J-18808-Ljbffr

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