Lead QA Automation Engineer

4 weeks ago
Full-time
Lead
Quality Assurance and Testing
Perch

Perch

Perch is a digital mortgage broker that simplifies the mortgage process for Canadians, offering personalized insights and tools to help them make informed decisions about real estate. With Perch, users can compare mortgage rates, get pre-approved onlin...

Banks
11-50
Founded 2018
$8M raised

Description

  • Own QA strategy in partnership with the VP of Engineering.
  • Define quality standards, including entry/exit criteria, coverage, and release readiness.
  • Standardize QA reporting across delivery teams.
  • Prioritize test coverage based on risk and business-critical behavior.
  • Build, own, and maintain automated regression coverage for web applications and services.
  • Select and manage automation tooling and conventions to keep test suites maintainable.
  • Run automated suites continuously against every change and ensure results remain trustworthy.
  • Manage, mentor, and develop QA engineers on the team.
  • Own quality outcomes across the function, including escaped defects, coverage, and release confidence.
  • Work closely with Engineering and Product from requirements through release as part of delivery teams.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in QA/test engineering.
  • 5+ years owning test automation, beyond executing manual test plans.
  • Experience owning quality outcomes for a team or function.
  • Experience managing or mentoring other QA engineers.
  • Track record of setting testing strategy and standards and getting them adopted across an organization.
  • Experience building and maintaining an automated regression suite from the ground up.
  • Deep hands-on fluency with at least one automation platform such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Ghost Inspector, Testim, Katalon, or mabl.
  • Comfort with code, including reading, scripting, and debugging tests without needing prior software engineering experience.
  • Based in Canada and eligible to work there.
  • Experience in fintech, financial services, or another regulated/high-consequence domain (preferred).
  • Formal line-management experience, including performance and growth conversations (preferred).
  • Experience building a QA function or practice where little existed before (preferred).
  • Experience with performance/load testing, cross-browser platforms, or AI-assisted test tooling (preferred).

Benefits

  • Compensation of $100,000 to $120,000.
  • Full benefits including health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Fully remote work.
  • Flexible hours.
  • A positive remote-work culture.
  • Opportunities to learn and grow.

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