Sr. Quality Engineer

The Opportunity

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior Quality Engineer Manager to lead a team of Quality Engineers and create strategic plans for quality and test engineering processes, reporting, and metrics.

Office locations: Boston-USA (ideally) or Toronto-Canada

Work Arrangement: role requires to be Hybrid - 3 days in Office, 2 days from Home

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee end-to-end QE test strategies to ensure delivery of high-quality products.

• People Manager leading a team of Quality Engineers to drive use of best practices and adherence of end-to-end test engineering processes, career coaching, and direction to cultivate high-performing teams.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders, IT leadership, development teams, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and priorities.

• Ability to right-size testing efforts using predictive tools to meet changing demands of projects.

• Ability to use test driven development to bring agility and subject matter expertise in driving speed to market.

• Ability to lead product-driven teams and product-launches in an aggressive environment collaborating with multiple vendors.

• Build strong relationships across the organization to remove QE roadblocks, and drive a culture of quality and continuous improvements.

• Monitor QE metrics to measure the effectiveness of QE processes to identify and implement areas for improvement.

• Actively participate in initiative and planning sessions to ensure QE Team members are allocated to the right work.

Required Experience / Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

• 5+ years in leading large complex projects across multiple platforms/technologies with an eye for End to End Testing, ability to identify and categorize risks with application and database testing within a cross-functional domain and propose mitigations to reduce and/or eliminate risks.

• 3 + years of experience in compiling regression suites and advocating risk-based testing models.

• 3 + years of experience in coordinating & leading User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.

• 4+ years of experience in using data tools for managing test data in large complex projects.

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in software testing, including the development and maintenance of automated tests using frameworks and technologies such as Selenium, REST Assured, Appium, etc.

• Experience in at least one Programming Language such as Java, JavaScript or Python.

• 5+ years’ experience in a senior-level QA role, with a focus on leading QE Teams, and or QE transformation initiatives.

• Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate team members to achieve excellence.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a track record of driving results and delivering business impact.

• Experience in implementing quality management frameworks, methodologies, and best practices (e.g., Agile, DevOps, CI/CD).

Nice to have Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in defining and measuring key quality metrics and driving performance improvements.

• Exposure to life insurance products, insurance products or financial products.