QA Automation Lead

Location: Toronto, ON. Onsite 5 days a week

Job Type: Full time Permanent

Language: Advanced written and spoken English required

About the Opportunity

As a QA Automation Lead, you will lead governance, planning, execution, and continuous improvement initiatives that shape quality standards across multiple projects and teams.

This role offers the opportunity to influence enterprise-wide automation strategy while mentoring internal and vendor resources. You will collaborate with IT partners, project managers, and stakeholders to ensure testing practices are efficient, scalable, and aligned with organizational goals.

What’s in it for You

Join a collaborative environment that values structure, innovation, and continuous improvement. You will play a visible leadership role, driving automation maturity while coaching a skilled team of professionals. This is a workplace that supports professional growth and encourages forward-thinking ideas that enhance quality and delivery outcomes.

Your Responsibilities

• You’ll lead governance activities, including reporting on automation metrics, managing dashboards, conducting audits, and ensuring adherence to PMO and TCoE standards.
• In this role, you’ll drive end-to-end test planning and execution across all SDLC phases, overseeing strategy, risk assessment, environments, defect management, and stakeholder communication.
• You’ll manage automation specialists and third-party vendors, ensuring scripts align with the framework and mentoring teams on best practices and tool usage.
• You’ll oversee tool selection, configuration, and maintenance, ensuring testing does not impact production and aligns with established policies.
• You’ll champion continuous improvement by implementing and evolving the IT automation testing framework and promoting sustainable, efficient testing practices.

Skills and Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading automation testing teams on large-scale projects within agile and waterfall environments
• Demonstrated experience developing automation roadmaps, frameworks, standards, and best practices
• Expertise in preparing test data, executing test cases and providing daily execution reports to project team
• Hands-on expertise with Java and JVM architecture
• Direct experience with mobile and UI test automation tools such as UFT, Selenium, Appium
• Strong understanding of Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development, CI/CD, and web services testing including HTTP and HTML
• Technical Experience in using defect tracking tools such as HP ALM
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field, combined with strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills

Note from the Hiring Manager

“We’re looking for someone who can balance strategy with hands-on leadership. If you’re passionate about building strong automation practices and mentoring others to deliver quality at scale, you’ll thrive here.”

Why Partner with Altis

If you’ve never worked with a staffing agency before, don’t worry, we make it easy. You’ll still engage directly with the client while we handle the logistics, provide guidance, and keep you informed every step of the way. We’ll represent your strengths, guide you through each stage of the process, and ensure the experience feels personal and transparent.