Lead QA Automation Engineer
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Lead QA automation for Perch, a digital mortgage platform helping Canadians build wealth through real estate. Setting quality standards, managing QA engineers, and maintaining automated regression coverage.
Responsibilities:
- Own QA strategy, set jointly with the VP of Engineering
- Define the quality bar, including entry/exit criteria, coverage, and release readiness
- Standardize reporting across delivery teams
- Prioritize coverage by risk, focusing on business-critical behaviour
- Build, own, and maintain automated regression coverage across web applications and services
- Select and own automation tooling and set maintainable suite conventions
- Run test suites continuously against every change and keep results trustworthy
- Manage, mentor, and develop QA engineers
- Own quality outcomes across the function, including escaped defects, coverage, and release confidence
- Work alongside Engineering and Product from requirements through release, embedded with delivery teams
- Report to the VP of Engineering
Requirements:
- 8+ years in QA/test engineering, including 5+ years owning test automation
- Experience owning quality outcomes for a team or function
- Experience managing and mentoring other QA engineers
- Track record of setting testing strategy and standards and getting them adopted organization-wide
- Demonstrated experience building an automated regression suite from the ground up and maintaining it over time
- Deep hands-on fluency with at least one automation platform, including Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Ghost Inspector, Testim, Katalon, or mabl
- Comfortable with code: able to read, script against, and debug tests
- Based in Canada and eligible to work in Canada
- Track record of succeeding in a fully remote team
Benefits:
- Full Benefits (health, dental, vision, etc)
- Fully remote, flexible hours
- A positive remote-work culture
- Opportunities to learn and grow
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