Quality Assurance Lead in Test

Hybrid: Markham, Ontario

Job Description

About Us

Pet Valu is Canada’s leading pet specialty retailer, dedicated to strengthening the bond between dedicated pet lovers and their pets. With 50 years of animal careexpertise, weoperateover 800 stores across Canada underseveral banners, including PetValu, Bosley’s, Total Pet, Paulmac's Pet,Tisol& Chico. Guided by our mission to deliver products, care,expertise, and memorable moments, Pet Valu is a place where people build meaningful careers while making a positive impact on pets and communities. Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Quality Assurance in Test with extensive experience in all aspects of software testing throughout the SDLC. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, high-performance automated tests for web, desktop, and mobile applications. You will collaborate with developers and other QA team members to drive our automation-first quality engineering strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, drive innovation, and make a significant impact on our organization’s testing strategy. Essential Roles and

Responsibilities:

Review and Analyze: Review and analyze development story acceptance criteria for completeness. Review code and architecture and provide feedback with the aim of improving testability of systems and code. Design and Development: Design, develop, and execute automated testing of web, desktop, and mobile applications using tools such as Selenium, Postman, ERP, etc. Your automated tests will identify potential flaws in key business software and systems that are critical to business operations. You will prevent downtime, revenue loss, and ensure top notch customer experiences across multiple applications across departments. Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Monitor regularly scheduled automated test runs, reporting on test execution, creating tickets for remediation of both application defects and test defects. Reporting: Produce regular reports or dashboards highlighting test coverage, defect statistics and trends, application performance testing results, etc. Code Quality & Best Practices : Ensure code quality by writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code, conducting code reviews, and maintaining coding standards across the team. Contribute to best practice documentation for QA and Development team members. DevOps & CI/CD: Assist infrastructure and development teams in identifying opportunities to enhance CI/CD processes with additional automated testing. Team Collaboration: Work closely with developers to encourage a shift left approach to quality engineering ensuring code and applications are always designed with automated testing in mind. Provide mentorship and guidance to other QA team members and developers on best practices and maximizing the opportunities for automated testing. Cross-functional collaboration: You will work closely with development partners in other departments creating automated testing for their software and encouraging best practices in development to enable an automation first approach for all QA work across departments. Documentation : Maintain detailed technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, process documentation, and specifications. QA standards and Quality Excellence: Defining QA standards, mentoring QA team members, ensuring comprehensive test coverage, and delivering high-quality enterprise solutions that support critical business operations. Continuous Improvement : Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the QA function. Skills, Experience, Education, Certifications

Required:

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field. Minimum of 5-7 years of professional experience in quality engineering with a heavy focus on automation. Strong proficiency in multiple areas of quality engineering including creation of automated integration tests, end to end tests, etc. Experience testing in F&O ERP system with heavy on integration testings. Expertise in programming languages such as C#, Java, JavaScript, or TypeScript. Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL database query writing and data preparation for testing scenarios. Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps or other relevant tools (Git, Jenkins, etc.). Basic understanding of security best practices in applications, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and secure coding practices. Experience with agile development methodologies and participating in sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups. Experience with services like JIRA, Confluence and Azure DevOps Boards. Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and leadership skills. Strong communication and collaboration abilities to work effectively in a globally distributed team environment. Preferred:

Relevant certifications in Qua