QA Lead

Job Requirements

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer (RISE Initiative)

Location: PCS CA, Toronto

Years of Experience: 7-10 Years

Job Summary: We are seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to serve as a technical quality leader within the RISE transformation initiative. This critical role involves driving end-to-end reliability and structural integrity across mission-critical data applications, safeguarding high-volume enterprise operations against computational errors, data loss, and operational downtime during large-scale platform evolution.

Responsibilities

• Lead the complete testing life cycle for complex data streams and transformation processes supporting the enterprise RISE program.
• Design and execute end-to-end data migration and conversion test strategies across legacy, intermediate, and modern target platforms.
• Perform multi-format file validation to confirm schema accuracy, record counts, delimiter structures, payload integrity, and structural precision.
• Validate high-throughput data pipelines for completeness, referential integrity, field-level mapping rules, and execution of business logic.
• Formulate risk-focused test plans, data validation matrices, and release readiness criteria aligned with broader project milestones.
• Perform in-depth root-cause analysis on complex data defects, schema mismatches, mapping failures, and downstream operational anomalies.

Mandatory Skills

• RISE Program & Core Architecture Testing - Expert
• File Validation & Schema Verification - Expert
• Data Testing & Reconciliation Frameworks - Expert
• Data Migration Testing Strategies - Expert
• Data Conversion Testing Execution - Expert
• Advanced SQL & Complex Database Querying - Expert

Preferred Skills

• Test Automation (Data & API Scripts) - Intermediate
• Legacy Data Migration & Modernization - Advanced
• API & Web Services Testing - Intermediate
• Test Strategy & Scenario Design - Advanced
• CI/CD Pipeline Data Integration - Intermediate

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Proven experience in quality assurance and testing methodologies, particularly in data-centric environments.

Work Experience7-10Years