Opentext - The Information Company

OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.

At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

Opentext - The Information Company

OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the chance to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.

At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

Your Impact

The Lead Quality Assurance Engineer owns QA strategy, governance, reporting, and execution across enterprise programs. This role leads teams through integration, functional, regression, end-to-end, performance, data validation, release readiness, and production validation while ensuring testing aligns to business processes, risk, and operational outcomes.





Leadership Competencies

Strategic Thinking: Aligns QA priorities to business risk and release readiness. Influence: Translates quality metrics into leadership insight and drives cross-functional alignment. Team Leadership: Sets direction, removes blockers, and coaches disciplined execution. Decision Quality: Uses data and business impact to guide escalation and go/no-go recommendations.

What The Role Offers

- Strategic QA Leadership: Own QA strategy, quality gates, and risk-based testing aligned to business priorities, release scope, and operational readiness.
- Business Process Expertise: Review requirements, specifications, and designs; understand processes, integrations, data flows, and user journeys to validate business outcomes.
- End-to-End Test Leadership: Lead planning and execution across integration, functional, regression, automation validation, performance, data validation, cutover, and production readiness.
- Team Governance: Direct QA analysts, testers, automation resources, developers, vendors, and business partners by setting priorities, clarifying scope, and removing blockers.
- Executive Communication: Provide clear status, risks, metrics, and readiness recommendations to program leadership, business stakeholders, and sponsors.

Major Responsibilities

- Define Test Strategy and Readiness: Create test strategies,



plans, entry/exit criteria, traceability, resource plans, test data needs, environment checks, test lab setup, and timelines.
- Lead Test Execution: Monitor progress, drive scope completion, coordinate hands-on testing, resolve blockers, validate enhancements, and confirm user needs are met.
- Manage Value Edge: Maintain test cycles, plans, labs, permissions, group memberships, and project setup/closure activities.
- Own QA Reporting: Report execution progress, pass/fail rates, open/closed defects, severity, aging, coverage, risks, blockers, and release readiness.
- Translate Quality Data: Explain test results, defect patterns, operational risk, customer impact, and deployment readiness for leadership decisions.
- Drive Defect Governance: Facilitate triage, assign priority, support investigation and reproduction, track closure, and elevate critical risks.
- Ensure Traceability: Confirm coverage against requirements, processes, controls, integrations, data flows, and acceptance criteria.
- Improve and Coach: Mentor team members and improve test practices, automation coverage, reporting, reusable assets, governance routines, and lessons learned adoption.

What You Need To Succeed

- Experience: 8+ years in software QA, including leadership of QA teams, test workstreams, or enterprise testing initiatives across Agile and waterfall models.
- Testing Depth: Strong end-to-end methodology across strategy, planning, scripting, execution, defect management, metrics, risk, release validation, and production readiness.
- Enterprise Application Expertise: Hands-on experience with integration testing, test automatio

📌 Lead Quality Assurance Developer (Mississauga)
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