QA Lead, Quality Assurance - QA​/QC, IT QA Tester ​/ Automation

Overview

Location:

Montreal, Canada

Work Arrangement:
Hybrid (3 days or less per week in the office)
Experience Level: Proficient (8-12+ years of experience)

Are you a seasoned QA professional who enjoys balancing hands‑on testing with strategic quality leadership? Trissential is hiring a QA Lead to join our client's team in Montreal. This is an exciting opportunity to lead quality initiatives across multiple delivery teams while helping shape the testing strategy for critical banking and payment solutions. If you're passionate about quality engineering, stakeholder engagement, and driving continuous improvement in large‑scale enterprise environments, this role is for you.

• Lead quality initiatives across multiple squads, projects, and enterprise payment programs
• Influence quality standards, testing practices, and delivery excellence at an organizational level
• Work with modern API‑first, event‑driven, and distributed systems architectures
• Partner with senior business and technology stakeholders on mission‑critical financial solutions
• Mentor QA professionals and help elevate quality engineering practices across teams
• Contribute to enterprise‑level test automation and quality transformation initiatives
• Enjoy a flexible hybrid work model while working on high‑impact projects
• Join a collaborative environment that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement

• Lead and coordinate testing activities across multiple squads, projects, releases, and payment initiatives
• Establish and champion consistent testing standards, quality practices, and delivery processes across teams
• Develop and maintain integrated test strategies, test plans, and quality approaches aligned to business objectives
• Coordinate testing schedules, resource planning, environments, and cross‑team dependencies
• Facilitate defect triage activities and ensure critical issues are appropriately prioritized and resolved
• Identify, assess, and communicate quality risks, testing gaps, and release readiness concerns
• Provide testing metrics, quality status reporting, and risk‑based recommendations to leadership and stakeholders
• Mentor QA team members and promote best practices in quality assurance and quality engineering
• Collaborate with product, business, architecture, and development teams to embed quality throughout the delivery lifecycle

• Design, document, and execute test cases for banking and payment transaction workflows across APIs, integrations, and event‑driven systems
• Validate solution quality, resilience, reliability, and testability throughout the software development lifecycle
• Test complex payment processing workflows spanning distributed systems, APIs, messaging platforms, and business processes
• Develop and execute API, integration, end‑to‑end, and non‑functional testing strategies
• Contribute to test automation initiatives across multiple testing layers where appropriate
• Assist with the creation and maintenance of automated test assets when required
• Utilize quality metrics, defect trends, and operational insights to improve testing effectiveness and reduce delivery risk
• Track defects, testing execution activities, and quality metrics using Jira and related quality management tools

• 8-12+ years of experience in software quality assurance, testing, or quality engineering roles
• Previous experience leading testing efforts across multiple teams, delivery streams, or enterprise initiatives
• Strong expertise in API testing, including validation of requests, responses, payloads, integration points, and transaction flows
• Experience testing event‑driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka or similar technologies
• Proven experience developing test strategies, test plans, estimates, and quality reporting frameworks
• Strong experience coordinating testing activities and managing cross‑functional stakeholder expectations
• Demonstrated ability to create test cases, execute tests, analyze results, and manage defects through resolution
• Strong understanding of integration testing and end‑to‑end business process…