Quality Engineering Lead (10+ years) to drive automation-led quality engineering across API-first

Our financial services client is seeking several Quality Engineering Leads (10+ years) to drive automation-led quality engineering across API-first and AI-assisted validation initiatives

Join a purpose-driven organization championing inclusion and sustainability while delivering impactful technology to its members across Canada. This senior engineering role leads the design and implementation of advanced automation frameworks and AI-assisted quality validation. The position offers technical ownership across API, system, and performance validation within a modern engineering environment. Operating in a hybrid model, the role provides exposure to strategic initiatives tied to net-zero and digital banking transformation.

QE Lead – Payments

Position Overview

Our client is seeking a senior Quality Engineering leader to support its Payments portfolio. This role sits within a business vertical and is responsible for leading QE strategy and delivery across payments-focused initiatives.

The ideal candidate brings strong payments domain expertise combined with hands-on technical QE/automation experience. This is a leadership position positioned between a Senior Test Lead and Test Manager, requiring both strategic thinking and the ability to work closely with delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Quality Engineering strategy and delivery for payments initiatives.
• Develop comprehensive test strategies, plans, approaches and execution models.
• Partner closely with business, product, technology and delivery stakeholders.
• Provide QE leadership throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead and coordinate QE resources across projects.
• Establish quality objectives, metrics and delivery standards.
• Identify testing risks, dependencies and gaps and develop mitigation strategies.
• Review test approaches and ensure appropriate coverage across functional and technical requirements.
• Provide technical guidance on automation and quality engineering practices.
• Work closely with automation engineers and QE teams to ensure effective test coverage.
• Communicate quality status, risks and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of QE practices across the Payments portfolio.

Required Qualifications

• Significant Quality Engineering / QA leadership experience.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of the Payments domain.
• Experience with areas such as payments processing, FX, wires and related financial services systems.
• Strong understanding of test strategy, planning and delivery.
• Experience leading QE/testing teams in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of test automation and modern QE practices.
• Experience with technologies such as Java, Selenium, Rest Assured and/or similar automation frameworks.
• Experience with both UI and API testing is highly desirable.
• Ability to understand technical architecture and challenge/guide automation approaches.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with real-time payments / real-time rails.
• Experience building or contributing to automation frameworks.
• Experience in banking or financial services.
• Developer-to-QE/SDET experience.
• Experience working across multiple payment platforms or payment transformation initiatives.

Compensation

Target base salary: approximately $,–$,, depending on experience and qualifications, plus Vancity's applicable benefits, bonus and pension programs.

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2. QE Lead – Engineering / Quality (Horizontal)

Position Overview

Our client is seeking a senior Quality Engineering technical leader to build and enable QE capabilities across the organization.

Unlike a traditional project-based test lead, this position operates horizontally across teams and focuses on QE engineering, architecture, automation frameworks and capability adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise Quality Engineering capabilities.
• Design scalable automation frameworks, tools and engineering practices.
• Evaluate QE technologies and recommend appropriate frameworks and approaches.
• Establish standards and reusable patterns for UI, API and automated testing.
• Partner with engineering teams to drive adoption of QE capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to QE practitioners.
• Design QE solutions and communicate architecture and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Present technical proposals and capability roadmaps to managers and directors.
• Coach and mentor QE engineers and technical leads.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation, engineering efficiency and quality.
• Drive continuous improvement across QE engineering practices.
• Collaborate with technology leadership to align QE capabilities with enterprise architecture.

Required Qualifications

• Senior-level Quality Engineering / SDET / Test Automation experience.
• Strong software engineering and programming background.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building automation frameworks.
• Strong experience with multiple automation frameworks and technologies.
• Strong UI and API testing experience.
• Experience with Java, Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured and/or comparable technologies.
• Ability to assess multiple technologies and select appropriate technical solutions.
• Strong understanding of software development, testing architecture and CI/CD.
• Experience operating at a senior technical/architect level.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to present complex technical concepts to management and executive stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working as a developer before transitioning into QE/SDET.
• Experience in enterprise banking or financial services.
• Experience establishing QE capabilities across multiple delivery teams.
• Experience with cloud, DevOps and modern engineering practices.

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3. Non-Functional QE Lead (Horizontal)

Position Overview

Vancity is seeking a senior Non-Functional Quality Engineering leader to establish and evolve enterprise capabilities in performance and resilience testing.

This is a horizontal capability role focused on architecture, enablement and adoption, rather than traditional project-level test management.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead Vancity's non-functional QE capabilities.
• Develop strategies and standards for performance and resilience testing.
• Design and implement scalable performance testing approaches.
• Establish and evolve chaos engineering capabilities.
• Work with engineering teams to integrate non-functional testing into delivery practices.
• Assess application architectures and identify performance and resilience risks.
• Design technical solutions, frameworks and reusable capabilities.
• Present recommendations, architectures and roadmaps to senior management and directors.
• Drive adoption of non-functional QE practices across technology teams.
• Establish standards, tooling, metrics and best practices.
• Coach and enable QE and engineering teams.
• Identify opportunities to automate and improve performance/resilience validation.

Required Qualifications

• Senior-level Non-Functional Testing / QE experience.
• Strong expertise in performance testing.
• Strong experience with chaos engineering / resilience engineering.
• Experience designing non-functional testing strategies and capabilities.
• Strong technical and architectural background.
• Experience working horizontally across multiple technology teams.
• Ability to design technical solutions and communicate them to senior stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of automation, CI/CD and modern software engineering practices.
• Excellent communication, presentation and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Banking/financial services experience.
• Experience building enterprise-level performance testing capabilities.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience integrating performance and resilience testing into DevOps practices.
• Experience with multiple performance-testing and observability technologies.