Vice President, Quality Assurance

Location: Montreal

Explorance is looking for an experienced  Vice President of Quality Assurance  to lead our global quality organization and define the vision for software quality across our products and technology organization.

As a senior technology leader, you will own the  quality strategy, operating model, and organizational capabilities  required to support reliable, scalable, and high-performing SaaS products. You will work closely with executive leaders across Engineering, Product, Cloud Ops, Security, and other functions to ensure quality is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle and aligned with our business and product priorities.

This role requires a leader who combines  strategic vision, strong technical judgment, organizational leadership, and execution discipline . You will be expected to challenge existing approaches, establish clear standards and accountability, and build a modern quality organization capable of supporting Explorance as we continue to scale.

What you'll be responsible for:
Quality Strategy & Executive Leadership

Define and own Explorance's enterprise-wide quality vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap, aligned with our product, technology, and business objectives.

Establish quality as a shared organizational responsibility across Product, Engineering, and Technology.

Serve as the senior advocate for software quality, bringing a quality and risk perspective to executive-level technology and product decisions.

Establish clear quality standards, governance, accountability, and measurable outcomes across the software development lifecycle.

Anticipate future quality needs as our products, technology, customer base, and organization evolve.

Translate business and product priorities into a scalable quality strategy and operating model.

Quality Engineering & Automation

Set the strategic direction for quality engineering, test automation, and modern testing practices across the organization.

Drive the evolution toward scalable, automation-first quality practices while ensuring the appropriate balance of automated and manual testing.

Ensure automation architecture, frameworks, tools, and practices can support increasingly complex and scalable SaaS environments.

Champion earlier integration of quality into architecture, design, development, CI/CD, and release processes.

Evaluate emerging technologies and approaches that can improve quality, productivity, test coverage, and speed to market.

Quality Governance, Performance & Risk

Establish meaningful quality KPIs and executive-level reporting to provide visibility into product quality, operational performance, and risk.

Use data and trends to identify systemic quality issues and drive organization-wide improvements.

Establish governance around release quality, testing readiness, defect management, and quality risk.

Ensure quality practices support relevant security, compliance, reliability, and customer commitments.

Organizational Leadership

Build, lead, and evolve a high-performing global QA organization with the capabilities required to support Explorance's growth.

Assess organizational capabilities and identify opportunities to strengthen skills, processes, structure, and technology.

Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, high performance, and continuous improvement.

Ensure QA resources and investments are aligned with business priorities, product roadmaps, and organizational needs.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Act as a strategic partner to senior leaders across Engineering, Product, Cloud Ops, Security, and the broader organization.

Influence architectural and technology decisions by ensuring quality, testability, reliability, and scalability are considered from the outset.

Drive alignment across functions on quality…