Our financial services client is seeking several Quality Engineering Leads (10+ years) to drive automation-led quality engineering across API-first and AI-assisted validation initiatives Join a purpose-driven organization championing inclusion and sustainability while delivering impactful technology to its members across Canada.

This senior engineering role leads the design and implementation of advanced automation frameworks and AI-assisted quality validation.

The position offers technical ownership across API, system, and performance validation within a modern engineering environment.

Operating in a hybrid model, the role provides exposure to strategic initiatives tied to net-zero and digital banking transformation. QE Lead – Payments Position Overview Our client is seeking a senior Quality Engineering leader to support its Payments portfolio.

This role sits within a business vertical and is responsible for leading QE strategy and delivery across payments-focused initiatives.

The ideal candidate brings strong payments domain expertise combined with hands-on technical QE/automation experience .

This is a leadership position positioned between a Senior Test Lead and Test Manager, requiring both strategic thinking and the ability to work closely with delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities Lead Quality Engineering strategy and delivery for payments initiatives.

Develop comprehensive test strategies, plans, approaches and execution models.

Partner closely with business, product, technology and delivery stakeholders.

Provide QE leadership throughout the project lifecycle.

Lead and coordinate QE resources across projects.

Establish quality objectives, metrics and delivery standards.

Identify testing risks, dependencies and gaps and develop mitigation strategies.

Review test approaches and ensure appropriate coverage across functional and technical requirements.

Provide technical guidance on automation and quality engineering practices.

Work closely with automation engineers and QE teams to ensure effective test coverage.

Communicate quality status, risks and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Contribute to continuous improvement of QE practices across the Payments portfolio.

Required Qualifications Significant Quality Engineering / QA leadership experience.

Strong hands-on knowledge of the Payments domain .

Experience with areas such as payments processing, FX, wires and related financial services systems.

Strong understanding of test strategy, planning and delivery.

Experience leading QE/testing teams in complex enterprise environments.

Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Strong understanding of test automation and contemporary QE practices.

Experience with technologies such as Java, Selenium, Rest Assured and/or similar automation frameworks .

Experience with both UI and API testing is highly desirable.

Ability to understand technical architecture and challenge/guide automation approaches.





Preferred Qualifications Experience with real-time payments / real-time rails.

Experience building or contributing to automation frameworks.

Experience in banking or financial services.

Developer-to-QE/SDET experience.

Experience working across multiple payment platforms or payment transformation initiatives.

Compensation Target base salary: approximately $,–$, , depending on experience and qualifications, plus Vancity's applicable benefits, bonus and pension programs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. QE Lead – Engineering / Quality (Horizontal) Position Overview Our client is seeking a senior Quality Engineering technical leader to build and enable QE capabilities across the organization.

Unlike a traditional project-based test lead, this position operates horizontally across teams and focuses on QE engineering, architecture, automation frameworks and capability adoption .

Key Responsibilities Define and evolve enterprise Quality Engineering capabilities.

Design scalable automation frameworks, tools and engineering practices.

Evaluate QE technologies and recommend appropriate frameworks and approaches.

Establish standards and reusable patterns for UI, API and automated testing.

Partner with engineering teams to drive adoption of QE capabilities.

Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to QE practitioners.

Design QE solutions and communicate architecture and recommendations to senior leadership.

Present technical proposals and capability roadmaps to managers and directors.

Coach and mentor QE engineers and technical leads.

Identify opportunities to improve automation, engineering efficiency and quality.

Drive continuous improvement across QE engineering practices.

Collaborate with technology leadership to align QE capabilities with enterprise architecture.

Required Qualifications Senior-level Quality Engineering / SDET / Test Automation experience.

Strong software engineering and programming background.

Demonstrated experience designing and building automation frameworks .

Strong experience with multiple automation frameworks and technologies.

Strong UI and API testing experience.

Experience with Java, Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured and/or comparable technologies.

Ability to assess multiple technologies and select appropriate technical solutions.

Strong understanding of software development, testing architecture and CI/CD.





Experience operating at a senior technical/architect level.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Ability to present complex technical concepts to management and executive stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications Experience working as a developer before transitioning into QE/SDET.

Experience in enterprise banking or financial services.

Experience establishing QE capabilities across multiple delivery teams.

Experience with cloud, Dev

Ops and modern engineering practices. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.

Non-Functional QE Lead (Horizontal) Position Overview Vancity is seeking a senior Non-Functional Quality Engineering leader to establish and evolve enterprise capabilities in performance and resilience testing.

This is a horizontal capability role focused on architecture, enablement and adoption , rather than traditional project-level test management.

Key Responsibilities Define and lead Vancity's non-functional QE capabilities.

Develop strategies and standards for performance and resilience testing.

Design and implement scalable performance testing approaches.

Establish and evolve chaos engineering capabilities.

Work with engineering teams to integrate non-functional testing into delivery practices.

Assess application architectures and identify performance and resilience risks.

Design technical solutions, frameworks and reusable capabilities.

Present recommendations, architectures and roadmaps to senior management and directors.

Drive adoption of non-functional QE practices across technology teams.

Establish standards, tooling, metrics and best practices.

Coach and enable QE and engineering teams.

Identify opportunities to automate and improve performance/resilience validation.

Required Qualifications Senior-level Non-Functional Testing / QE experience.

Strong expertise in performance testing .

Strong experience with chaos engineering / resilience engineering .

Experience designing non-functional testing strategies and capabilities.

Strong technical and architectural background.

Experience working horizontally across multiple technology teams.

Ability to design technical solutions and communicate them to senior stakeholders.

Strong understanding of automation, CI/CD and modern software engineering practices.

Excellent communication, presentation and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications Banking/financial services experience.

Experience building enterprise-level performance testing capabilities.

Experience with cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.

Experience integrating performance and resilience testing into Dev

Ops practices.

Experience with multiple performance-testing and observability technologies.

📌 Quality Engineering Lead (10+ years) to drive automation-led quality engineering across API-first and AI-assisted validation initiatives (Toronto)
🏢 S.i. Systems
📍 Toronto