SDET Lead

Location: Montreal Office

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Contexte du poste

About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior QA Leader to take ownership of our overall Quality Assurance strategy, testing frameworks, and global QA delivery. In this role, you will lead and scale our software quality operations primarily by managing and steering our outsourced third-party QA vendor teams.
You will bridge the gap between internal product management, engineering teams, and external QA partners—ensuring that our software releases meet the highest standards of reliability, performance, and security.

Ce que vous ferez

Key Responsibilities
QA Strategy & Process Governance
Define, execute, and evolve the enterprise QA vision across web, mobile, and API platforms.
Establish automated quality gates within our CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous integration and deployment security.
Drive test planning, execution strategy, risk analysis, and test data management strategies.
Lead root-cause analysis (RCA) sessions for high-severity production defects and institute preventative measures.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner closely with Product Managers, Software Engineering Leads to integrate testing early in the AiDLC
Serve as the primary escalation point for quality-related issues across all release streams.
Report quality health dashboards and operational status directly to senior technology leadership.

Core Competencies & Skills
Vendor Governance & SLA Management: Defining Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Statement of Work (SOW) oversight, vendor performance reviews, and cost/budget management.
QA Strategy & Test Governance: Architecting end-to-end testing strategies (manual, automated, performance, security), establishing quality gates in CI/CD pipelines, and driving a "shift-left" testing culture.
Distributed Team Leadership: Managing offshore/nearshore talent across multiple time zones, fostering quality ownership across vendor boundaries, and mitigating communication bottlenecks.
Metrics & Quality Analytics: Tracking defect leakage, test coverage, sprint velocity, defect mean-time-to-detect (MTTD), and mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR).
Bilingual Communication (Quebec Requirement): Professional proficiency in both French and English is standard for Montreal-based leadership positions to align with local business operations and Quebec language laws (Bill 96).

Tool Stack (in bold what we used):
Test & Defect Management: Jira, Xray, Zephyr, TestRail
Test Automation Frameworks: Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Appium, Postman, RestAssured
CI/CD & Pipeline Integration: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps
Performance & Load Testing: JMeter, k6, BlazeMeter
Collaboration & Vendor Management: Confluence, Slack, MS Teams, Miro, Notion
Analytics & Reporting: Power BI, Tableau, Jira Dashboards
AI tooling: Claude, Codex...

Qualifications & Requirements
Experience: 7+ years in Software Quality Assurance with 3+ years in a senior lead, manager, or QA director capacity.
Outsourced Team Oversight: Proven track record of directly managing vendor teams, third-party contracts, and offshore/nearshore testing units (20+ engineers).
Technical Depth: Hands-on background in test automation frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium) and API testing (Postman, REST APIs).
Process Mastery: Deep knowledge of release management, and continuous delivery pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps).
Language: Professional fluency in both French and English (spoken and written), required for local alignment and compliance in Montreal.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
This job description is not an exhaustive list of duties and may be modified at the discretion of Simpro Group at any time.

Ce que vous apportez

Nos valeurs fondamentales

• Nous formons une seule équipe

• Nous sommes centrés sur le client

• Nous avons une mentalité de croissance

• Nous sommes responsables

• Nous célébrons les réussites

Simpro, AroFlo, BigChange et ClockShark sont des employeurs souscrivant au principe de l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi. Nous offrons un programme d'intégration de premier ordre ainsi qu’un environnement de travail stimulant. Cela signifie que nous souhaitons que chacun se sente le bienvenu chez nous et que nous offrons des chances égales à tous, sans égard à l'âge, au handicap, à la réaffectation de genre, au mariage et au partenariat civil, à la grossesse et à la maternité, à la race, à la religion ou aux convictions, au sexe ou à l'orientation sexuelle, ou à tout autre facteur non lié au rendement.

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