Engineering Lead, Quality
Job in
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Listing for:
Vancity
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-07-16
Job specializations:
-
Quality Assurance - QA/QC
Quality Engineering
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Our Story &
Purpose:
We’re Vancity, a member-owned credit union built on the principles of inclusion and social justice. Since 1946, our relentless commitment to these values has helped us challenge the status quo and break down barriers. We’ve made bold commitments to become net-zero by 2040 across all mortgages and loans, and we’re actively pursuing strategies in Indigenous banking and financial resilience for our members.
As the largest private sector Living Wage Employer in Canada, we’re proud to be consistently recognized as one of the country’s Top Employers. If you’re ready to join our team of 2,300 diverse individuals, access competitive rewards and benefits, and be part of a greater movement – apply today!
Your Role in Supporting Our Members:
As a Engineering Lead, Quality
, you will play a senior technical role responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of member-facing platforms through hands-on engineering leadership and execution of automation-first practices across the SDLC. This position focuses on designing and implementing quality engineering solutions, leveraging deep technical expertise in automation, API-first testing, AI-driven/agentic techniques, and non-functional validation. This is not a traditional QA Lead role.
We are looking for a senior engineer (senior SDET) to lead a team of quality engineers in a dotted line capacity building scalable, code-driven quality solutions, not just manage testing activities.
This is a Full-time, Permanent role based at Vancity head office
. Our head office is based in Vancouver, but we are open to candidates in BC and Ontario. While this position provides a hybrid work arrangement, you will be expected to be on-site for events and business demands when needed.
How You'll Make an Impact:
Quality Strategy & Planning
Translating quality engineering strategy and technical direction into executable plans and approaches aligned to business and delivery needsCollaborating directly with product and engineering partner teams to embed quality objectives within those teams’ delivery contextsDesigning and implementing scalable, data-driven automated validation approaches that reduce reliance on manual and UI-heavy testingContributing to metrics and quality signals (e.g. automation coverage, test reliability metrics, CI/CD feedback loops) through instrumentation and KPIsImplementing and enforcing quality gates (API coverage, performance thresholds, reliability criteria) within Dev-owned CI/CD pipelinesTechnical Leadership
Providing technical leadership as a senior individual contributor to the Quality Engineering team, operating as a “first among equals” within SDET communityInfluencing, guiding and coaching SDETs through hands-on collaboration in various areas including coding, automation design / engineering, data analysis, etc.Leading by example through design, coding and reviews, setting a high standard for the quality engineering craftBringing teams together and drive alignment in ambiguous situations through technical credibility and sound business judgement, not formal authorityIdentifying risks and guide teams through technical problem-solving, risk-based testing and execution leadershipAutomation & Tools
Designing, building and evolving scalable automation frameworks across API, service, and UI layers—with API-first as core principleIntegrating validation into CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI) for continuous quality feedbackImplementing modern API testing approaches such as contract testing, service virtualization, and data-driven validationDriving the transition from Selenium-heavy UI automation to a layered testing approach (API → integration → minimal UI)Exploring and implementing AI-assisted and agentic testing approaches to improve coverage, speed, and maintainability of our test automationQuality Advocacy
Partnering with developers to improve testability, observability, and API-first approachCollaborating with Dev Ops and releasing engineering to support reliable, automated deploymentsLeading root cause analysis for production issues and implementing preventative engineering solutionsBeing the…
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