Senior QA Engineer (Canada)

This is a remote position.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior QA Engineer to help reduce manual regression effort, improve release quality, and enable faster, more reliable delivery. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on test automation expertise with strong performance testing skills, modern CI/CD quality practices, and the ability to coach a team toward QA best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites to expand regression coverage and reduce manual effort.
  

• Develop and execute performance and load tests to validate system reliability and scalability.
  

• Integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to ensure consistent, reliable releases.
  

• Apply AI-assisted quality engineering techniques to accelerate test creation and improve coverage.
  

• Coach and mentor the team on QA best practices, standards, and tooling.
  

• Collaborate with developers and delivery leads to improve delivery predictability and reduce operational risk.
  

Required Skills & Experience

• Test automation and regression coverage — designing and scaling automated test frameworks.
  

• Robot Framework — strong hands-on automation experience.
  

• JMeter — performance and load testing.
  

• Azure DevOps — pipelines, boards, and test management.
  

• CI/CD quality integration — embedding automated quality gates into delivery pipelines.
  

• AI-assisted quality engineering, including GitHub Copilot, to accelerate testing.
  

• Demonstrated ability to coach teams on QA best practices.
  

Nice to Have

• Experience in regulated or public-sector / enterprise delivery environments.
  

• Familiarity with shift-left testing and quality-engineering culture.
  

• Exposure to API and integration testing.
  

Expected Outcomes

Improved delivery predictability, reduced operational risk, and increased engineering efficiency — through stronger automation, reliable performance validation, and embedded quality practices.