09 Nov
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ZoftSolutions
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Winnipeg
09 Nov
ZoftSolutions
Winnipeg
SENIOR QA ENGINEER We are hiring a Senior QA Manager for an onsite assignment at our client's premises in Canada, owning QA leadership across multiple product streams. You will own end-to-end test strategy — manual and automated, across web, mobile, API and emerging surfaces — coordinate distributed QA engineers across India, Canada and elsewhere, and be the credible face of quality with the client's leadership. Deep hands
- on testing craft, excellent scripting, and confident direct client communication are essential. This role is AI-first by design: you and your team will use modern AI-augmented testing tools to raise coverage, velocity and defect discovery.
Test strategy & quality governance across products Own the multi-product test strategy — functional, regression, exploratory and non-functional (performance,security, accessibility, resilience) — aligned to release cadence and risk profile.
Set and enforce quality gates, entry/exit criteria, coverage targets, and quality metrics that drive behaviour (escape rate, defect density, first-time-pass, MTTR).
Own test-data and environment strategy, and compliance testing where relevant (PIPEDA, WCAG 2.2 AA, Ontario AODA, Quebec Law 25). Hands-on manual & automation testingStay hands-on — design frameworks, review test code, model complex scenarios, and mentor by example rather than by ticket.
API and contract testing (Postman REST Assured Karate Pact); performance (k6 JMeter Gatling); AI-first testingDrive AI-augmented testing as the default posture — self-healing frameworks (Mabl Testim Applitools Eyes), LLM-assisted test generation (Copilot / Claude / Cursor), automated triage of logs and failures.
Own the quality of AI features in the products — prompt tests, red-teaming, guardrail and PII validation,
and LLM-eval pipelines in CI (Braintrust Langfuse Ragas DeepEval Promptfoo). Distributed QA leadership across time zonesLead QA engineers across India, Canada and elsewhere; run planning, standups,reviews and retros designed to work across 8–10-hour gaps.
Own hiring standards, ramp, mentoring, career development and performance conversations for both onsite and offshore team members. Onsite QA leadership & delivery coordinationBe the onsite quality leader at the client's premises across multiple product streams — attend client ceremonies, present QA plans and outcomes to client leadership, and run incident post-mortems.
Bridge offshore delivery to onsite expectation — protect the offshore team from context whiplash and the client from delivery surprises.
Hands-on by choice — you would rather write a Playwright helper or triage a flaky test than delegate it away.
AI-fluent, responsibly — pushes the team toward AI-first automation while safeguarding correctness, security, data-protection and IP.
A calm client-facing leader — trusted by client executives to say “yes we ship” or “no we do not” with reasoning that stands up.
A quiet standard-setter — engineers across time zones read your test plans and reviews to learn what good looks like.
A seasoned leader with a track record of building and scaling QA functions across multiple product lines and geographies.
Test-strategy leadership — multi-product, multi-release, risk-based; entry/exit criteria,
quality gates, and metrics that drive behaviour.
Non-functional depth — performance (k6 JMeter Gatling), accessibility (WCAG 2.2, axe-core), security
- testing basics (OWASP ZAP, SAST/DAST triage).
CI/CD-integrated testing on Azure DevOps Pipelines (or GitHub Actions / Jenkins); test reporting (Allure ReportPortal).
Distributed-team leadership — planning, ceremonies, mentoring, and performance across India, Canada and beyond.
Direct client engagement — running planning meetings, demos, RCAs and escalations with senior Canadian stakeholders.
AI-first testing judgment — self-healing tools, LLM-assisted authoring, and evals for AI features embedded in the products.
Exceptional English communication — verbal and written — and a confident onsite executive presence.
ISTQB Advanced (Test Manager / Test Automation Engineer) or equivalent certification.
Chaos / resilience testing (Gremlin Chaos Mesh) and production observability signals (Application Insights Datadog New Relic).
Testing experience across web, mobile-native and API surfaces of the same product line.
Exposure to Azure AI Foundry agent evaluation, and to LLM red-teaming tools (Lakera Robust Intelligence).
Prior experience establishing a QA Centre of Excellence or Community of Practice.
Bilingual English / French is a robust asset for Quebec-facing engagements.
Bachelor of Engineering / Technology in Computer Science, Information Technology or an equivalent discipline.10+ years of hands-on QA experience with at least 5 years in a QA leadership / management role owning multi-product strategy and distributed teams.
Work Experience Bachelor of Engineering or RelatedWork Mode OnsiteCreating Ideas with Passion,Purpose, and Technology
📌 Senior QA Engineer (Winnipeg)
🏢 ZoftSolutions
📍 Winnipeg