Job Title: Lead QA Engineer

Location: Halifax (Remote)

12-Month Contract

Role Overview The Lead QA will be responsible for the end-to-end quality assurance of the solution , including understanding the overall system architecture and business flows, coordinating requirements and testing activities across participating systems, and providing technical and functional guidance to the offshore QA team.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop a holistic understanding of the end-to-end system, integrations, business processes, and application flows .
- Lead QA requirement elicitation and clarification with various participating systems, application teams, business stakeholders, and SMEs.
- Analyze requirements, functional specifications, interface specifications, and solution designs to identify test scenarios and dependencies.
- Define the overall test strategy, approach, scope, test scenarios, and coverage for end-to-end testing.
- Coordinate with participating systems to understand upstream/downstream dependencies, data requirements, interfaces, and expected system behavior.
- Lead and coordinate the offshore QA team , including task allocation, technical guidance, reviews, and progress tracking.
- Review test cases, test scripts, test data, and automation assets developed by the QA team.
- Ensure coverage of functional, integration, system, regression, and end-to-end testing across all applicable flows.
- Coordinate test execution across multiple teams and systems and track testing progress against milestones.
- Manage defect identification, triage, prioritization, root-cause analysis, and resolution coordination with development and participating teams.




- Facilitate defect triage and testing status meetings with relevant stakeholders.
- Identify testing risks, gaps, dependencies, and blockers and drive them to closure.
- Prepare and maintain QA deliverables, including test strategy, test plans, test scenarios, execution reports, defect reports, traceability, and test closure reports .
- Provide regular QA status updates, metrics, risks, and issues to project leadership.
- Support SIT, UAT, regression, release validation, and production readiness activities.
- Ensure adherence to QA processes, standards, and project quality gates.

Key Skills / Experience

- Solid experience in end-to-end system/integration testing .
- Experience working across multiple applications and participating systems .
- Strong requirement elicitation and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience leading onsite/offshore QA teams .
- Strong understanding of API, integration, database, messaging, and enterprise application testing.
- Experience with defect management and test management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent .
- Strong analytical, communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to understand complex system flows and translate them into comprehensive test coverage.
- Experience in Agile delivery environments and working with distributed teams.

Key Outcome: The Lead QA will act as the single QA point of coordination and ownership across the end-to-end solution , ensuring that requirements, dependencies, test coverage, execution, defects, and stakeholder coordination are effectively managed across all participating systems.

📌 Lead Quality Assurance Engineer (Canada)
🏢 Gala Solutions
📍 Canada