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Staff Quality Assurance Engineer

Calgary, Alberta, CanadaOnsiteContractStaffPosted 1 day ago

About the Role:

We’re hiring a Staff QA Lead, to elevate the quality bar across our product and engineering organization. This is a foundational role as the first dedicated QA hire, offering the opportunity to shape tools, processes, and testing strategy from the ground up.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement automated test frameworks
  • Define and execute mobile testing strategies
  • Expand test coverage across API, end-to-end, load, and security testing
  • Integrate testing into SDLC and CI/CD pipelines
  • Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, security, and product teams
  • Own quality gates and testing domains

Required Qualifications:

  • 8+ years in software quality engineering
  • Experience building QA systems from scratch
  • Expertise in PHP and Laravel (Pest/PHP Unit)
  • Experience with AI tools (LLMs, AI IDEs)
  • Strong frontend and backend testing experience (Vue, Cypress, Playwright)
  • CI/CD and DevOps familiarity (GCP, GitLab)
  • Mobile testing experience (iOS & Android)
  • Knowledge of fintech compliance (PCI DSS)
  • Mentorship and leadership experience
  • Strong communication and strategic thinking

Bonus Skills:

  • Custom tooling/plugins for IDEs
  • Agentic QA workflows
  • Advanced Laravel testing tools (Laravel Dusk)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Performance testing (k6, Locust)
  • Open-source contributions

What You’ll Own:

  • Self-service testing infrastructure
  • AI-driven automation
  • Full-stack testing frameworks
  • Quality gates in deployment pipelines
  • Mobile QA strategy
  • Coaching engineering teams
  • Staging and performance optimization
  • Compliance and security validation
  • Quality metrics (MTTR, Change Failure Rate)
  • Continuous QA innovation
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