QE Lead, Payments

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Your Role in Supporting Our Members:

As an QE Lead, Payments , you will play a senior technical role responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of member-facing platforms through hands‑on engineering leadership and execution of automation‑first practices across the SDLC. This position focuses on designing and implementing quality engineering solutions, leveraging deep technical expertise in automation, API‑first testing, AI‑driven/agentic techniques, and non‑functional validation. This is not a traditional QA Lead role. We are looking for a senior engineer (senior SDET) to lead a team of quality engineers in a dotted line capacity building scalable, code‑driven quality solutions, not just manage testing activities.

Payments & Real-Time Payments for Quality Engineering

• Leading end‑to‑end quality engineering for Canadian payment capabilities, including Interac e‑Transfer, payment hub integrations, account‑to‑account payments, and future Real‑Time Rail (RTR) initiatives, ensuring quality, reliability, and compliance across the complete payment lifecycle
• Translating Interac operating rules, certification requirements, Payments Canada obligations, and RTR readiness requirements into traceable test scenarios, automated quality controls, release evidence, and production readiness criteria
• Defining and executing Test strategies covering payment initiation, authorization, routing, ISO 20022 message types and validation, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, returns, reversals, disputes, exception handling, and payment finality to ensure accurate and resilient transaction processing
• Partnering with Fraud, Security, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Engineering teams to validate fraud controls, authentication and authorization mechanisms, transaction monitoring, auditability, operational controls, and regulatory compliance requirements
• Building scalable automated validations for payment APIs, event‑driven systems, and real‑time transaction processing, idempotency, duplicate payments, retries, timeout handling, resiliency, and 24x7 operational readiness
• Supporting payment certification, participant testing, production readiness assessments, and release governance activities by coordinating test evidence, defects, dependencies, operational validation, and quality sign‑off across internal and external stakeholders

Quality Strategy & Planning

• Translating quality engineering strategy and technical direction into executable plans and approaches aligned to business and delivery needs
• Collaborating directly with product and engineering partner teams to embed quality objectives within those teams’ delivery contexts
• Implementing scalable, data‑driven automated validation approaches that reduce reliance on manual and UI‑heavy testing
• Contributing to metrics and quality signals (e.g. automation coverage, test reliability metrics, CI/CD feedback loops) through instrumentation and KPIs
• Implementing and enforcing quality gates (API coverage, performance thresholds, reliability criteria) within Dev‑owned CI/CD pipelines

Technical Leadership

• Providing technical leadership as a senior individual contributor to the Quality Engineering team, operating as a “first among equals” within SDET community
• Influencing, guiding and coaching Test Engineers through hands‑on collaboration in various areas including coding, automation design / engineering, data analysis, etc.
• Bringing teams together and drive alignment in ambiguous situations through technical credibility and sound business judgement, not formal authority
• Identifying risks and guide teams through technical problem‑solving, risk‑based testing and execution leadership

Automation & Tools

• Building and evolving scalable automation frameworks across API, service, and UI layers—with API‑first as core principle
• Implementing modern API testing approaches such as contract testing, service virtualization, and data‑driven validation
• Driving the transition from Selenium‑heavy UI automation to a layered testing