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Lead QA Analyst

Lead QA Analyst

CI Financial • Toronto, ON, CA
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Lead QA Analyst responsible for overseeing the quality assurance process across projects, ensuring solutions are tested thoroughly and meet business, functional, and technical requirements. This role leads test planning, test execution, defect management, and QA coordination across cross‑functional teams. The Lead QA Analyst acts as the central point of contact for quality standards, test strategy, and overall testing governance.

What You Will Do

Quality Assurance Leadership

  • Lead end‑to‑end QA activities across multiple projects or releases.
  • Define and maintain QA processes, standards, and best practices.
  • Provide oversight, guidance, and mentorship to QA analysts and testers.
  • Coordinate with project managers, business analysts, developers, and stakeholders to ensure quality is built into every stage of delivery.

Test Planning & Strategy

  • Develop comprehensive test plans, test strategies, and test schedules.
  • Identify testing scope, resource needs, timelines, and risks.
  • Ensure traceability between business requirements, test cases, and defects.
  • Define and implement manual and automated testing approaches as appropriate.

Test Execution & Defect Management

  • Oversee test case creation, execution, and documentation.
  • Drive defect triage, prioritization, and resolution with development and product teams.
  • Monitor test progress, report QA metrics, and provide visibility to leadership.
  • Validate that resolved defects meet acceptance criteria and do not create regressions.

Automation & Tools

  • Evaluate and recommend QA tools, frameworks, and automation solutions.
  • Support or lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of automated test suites.
  • Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate automated tests.

Quality Governance & Continuous Improvement

  • Conduct root‑cause analysis on defects and production issues to improve quality.
  • Lead process improvements to enhance efficiency, reliability, and repeatability of testing.
  • Ensure compliance with organizational policies, SDLC frameworks, and audit standards.

Required

  • 5–8+ years of QA experience, with at least 2 years in a lead or senior QA role.
  • Strong understanding of software testing methodologies (functional, regression, integration, UAT, performance, etc.).Experience creating test plans, test cases, and QA documentation.
  • Proficiency with QA tools (e.g., Jira, TestRail, Postman).
  • Excellent analytical, communication, and coordination skills.

Preferred

  • Experience with automation frameworks.
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery.
  • Experience testing APIs, data workflows, or complex enterprise applications.

Salary and Benefits

Salary range: $69,500 - $119,500 (exact salary depends on experience, skills, education, and budget; may vary by geographic location). Eligible for bonus program.

Benefits include: health insurance coverage, wellness programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays and vacation time, and many others (typically subsidized or fully paid by the company).

This role follows an in‑office work model and requires employees to be onsite four days per week.

CI Financial Corp. and all affiliated companies (“CI”) provide an equitable and accessible workplace. CI is committed to accommodating the needs of persons with disabilities. If you require accommodations to apply or during any stage of the hiring process, please contact accessible.recruitment@ci.com or call 416‑364‑1145, ext. 4747.

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