Quality Assurance Lead

Location: Canada
-Remote
Contract Duration: 12 Months, with potential for extension
Anticipated

Start Date:

December 2026

Buchanan Technologies is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance (QA) Lead to support a large-scale enterprise application modernization initiative. This role combines hands-on technical testing, test automation, quality assurance leadership, and collaboration with cross-functional development teams.

The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing and maintaining QA best practices, leading testing activities, developing automated testing frameworks, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality enterprise software solutions.

We are looking for a technically strong QA professional who can balance strategic QA leadership with hands-on testing and automation, particularly within Microsoft Azure Dev Ops and modern CRM environments.

Lead and coordinate quality assurance activities across multiple development and delivery teams, ensuring consistent testing standards and practices.

Establish, implement, and continuously improve QA methodologies, policies, procedures, and best practices.

Design, develop, and maintain automated testing frameworks using Playwright with C#/.NET Core and NUnit
, integrated with Azure Pipelines.

Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies covering System Integration Testing (SIT), end-to-end testing, regression testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Create and maintain detailed test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test data based on business and technical requirements.

Perform hands‑on manual testing of enterprise applications, web-based solutions, APIs, and CRM platforms.

Utilize Microsoft Azure Dev Ops Test Plans to manage test execution, defect tracking, reporting, and QA activities.

Coordinate defect identification, triage, prioritization, resolution, and retesting with development and project teams.

Support business stakeholders in developing UAT test scripts, conducting testing activities, and validating business requirements.

Develop QA performance metrics, dashboards, and reporting to track testing progress, team velocity, defects, and overall software quality.

Mentor and guide QA analysts, promoting consistent testing practices and continuous improvement.

Collaborate with solution architects, developers, business analysts, project managers, and other stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle.

Minimum 5 years of demonstrated experience in Quality Assurance, including QA leadership responsibilities.

Proven experience establishing and implementing QA best practices, policies, procedures, and testing standards.

Strong hands‑on experience with Playwright automation using C#/.NET Core and NUnit
, including execution through Azure Pipelines.

Advanced experience with Microsoft Azure Dev Ops
, particularly Test Plans and test management.

Strong understanding of manual and automated software testing methodologies.

Experience designing and executing test plans, test cases, test scripts, and regression testing suites.

Experience testing REST and/or SOAP APIs, including working with JSON and XML.

Strong ability to develop, manipulate, and validate test data, reproduce defects, and troubleshoot complex application issues.

Experience managing testing activities across multiple phases of the software development lifecycle.

Ability to assess defect severity, manage testing priorities, and coordinate issue resolution.

Experience creating QA dashboards, reporting metrics, and communicating testing progress to project stakeholders.

Strong communication, analytical, problem‑solving, and team…