Vancity

QA Engineer

• Lead 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 initiatives
• Translate Interac operating rules, certification requirements, Payments Canada obligations, and RTR readiness requirements into test scenarios, automated quality controls, release evidence, and production readiness criteria
• Define and execute test strategies covering payment initiation, authorization, routing, ISO 20022 validation, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, returns, reversals, disputes, exception handling, and payment finality
• Partner with Fraud, Security, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Engineering teams to validate controls, authentication, authorization, monitoring, auditability, operational controls, and regulatory compliance
• Build scalable automated validations for payment APIs, event-driven systems, real-time processing, idempotency, duplicate payments, retries, timeouts, resiliency, and 24x7 readiness
• Support payment certification, participant testing, production readiness assessments, and release governance
• Translate quality engineering strategy into executable plans aligned with business and delivery needs
• Embed quality objectives within product and engineering delivery contexts
• Implement data-driven automated validation approaches and quality metrics, including automation coverage and test reliability
• Implement and enforce quality gates within Dev-owned CI/CD pipelines
• Provide technical leadership to the Quality Engineering team as a senior individual contributor
• Guide and coach Test Engineers in coding, automation design, engineering, and data analysis
• Identify risks and lead technical problem-solving, risk-based testing, and execution
• Build and evolve automation frameworks across API, service, and UI layers, with an API-first approach
• Implement contract testing, service virtualization, and data-driven validation
• Drive transition from Selenium-heavy UI automation to API, integration, and minimal UI testing
• Apply AI-assisted and agentic testing approaches
• Improve testability, observability, and API-first practices with developers
• Partner with DevOps and release engineering on reliable automated deployments
• Lead root-cause analysis for production issues and implement preventative solutions
• Promote shift-left quality practices
• Implement automated validation across API, service, and system layers
• Execute performance, security, and regression validation through pipeline-integrated frameworks

Quality Engineering Lead, Payments

• Lead end-to-end Quality Engineering for the Commercial Banking Transformation program and subsequent strategic initiatives
• Establish Quality Engineering strategies, test plans, delivery roadmaps, quality gates, governance models, and reporting approaches
• Lead functional, API certification, system integration, regression, accessibility, performance, security, operational readiness, production validation, and related quality activities
• Coordinate Quality Engineering across workstream leads, engineers, product, architecture, business, operations, and vendors
• Track scope coverage, requirements readiness, test design, execution, automation, environments, test data, defects, dependencies, and release readiness
• Translate program milestones and business objectives into executable plans, readiness criteria, and traceable quality evidence
• Identify cross-workstream risks, gaps, overlaps, and dependencies
• Provide evidence-based reporting to program leadership and governance forums
• Lead quality planning and execution through ambiguity, evolving requirements, integration dependencies, vendor constraints, and changing priorities
• Validate commercial banking journeys, digital banking platforms, core banking services, integrations, data flows, and operational processes
• Ensure traceability across requirements, APIs, integration contracts, test scenarios, automated tests, defects, and release evidence
• Define risk-based test coverage for authorization, entitlements, transaction processing, exception handling, reconciliation, auditability, accessibility, security, and operational controls
• Champion shift-left quality practices in requirements, design, architecture, API contract, and acceptance-criteria reviews
• Establish test levels, entry and exit criteria, ownership boundaries, escalation paths, and evidence requirements
• Lead and coach Quality Engineers and workstream QE leads in automation, API testing, test architecture, data validation, troubleshooting, and risk-based testing
• Define scalable API-first automation across service, integration, data, and targeted user-interface layers
• Apply contract testing, schema validation, service virtualization, integration testing, and data-driven validation
• Integrate automated quality controls and risk-based gates into delivery pipelines
• Lead root-cause analysis for significant defects and production issues
• Design, build, review, and troubleshoot automated validation across API, service, integration, data, system, and targeted UI layers
• Validate end-to-end workflows spanning multiple systems, vendors, environments, and data sources
• Contribute to automation frameworks, shared utilities, test harnesses, pipeline integration, test-data solutions, and technical proofs of concept
• Use logs, service responses, databases, events, and monitoring data to diagnose failures and isolate root causes
• Support performance, security, accessibility, reliability, and regression validation with specialist teams

Quality Engineering Lead, Digital & Tech Platforms

• Lead 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 initiatives
• Translate Interac operating rules, certification requirements, Payments Canada obligations, and RTR readiness requirements into test scenarios, automated quality controls, release evidence, and production readiness criteria
• Define and execute test strategies covering payment initiation, authorization, routing, ISO 20022 validation, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, returns, reversals, disputes, exception handling, and payment finality
• Partner with Fraud, Security, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Engineering teams to validate controls, authentication, authorization, monitoring, auditability, operational controls, and regulatory compliance
• Build scalable automated validations for payment APIs, event-driven systems, real-time processing, idempotency, duplicate payments, retries, timeouts, resiliency, and 24x7 operational readiness
• Support payment certification, participant testing, production readiness assessments, and release governance by coordinating evidence, defects, dependencies, validation, and quality sign-off
• Translate quality engineering strategy and technical direction into executable plans aligned with business and delivery needs
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to embed quality objectives into delivery contexts
• Implement data-driven automated validation approaches and quality metrics, including automation coverage, test reliability, CI/CD feedback loops, and KPIs
• Implement and enforce quality gates within Dev-owned CI/CD pipelines
• Provide senior technical leadership as a first-among-equals contributor to the Quality Engineering team
• Guide and coach Test Engineers through coding, automation design, engineering, and data analysis
• Identify risks and lead technical problem-solving, risk-based testing, and execution
• Build and evolve automation frameworks across API, service, and UI layers using an API-first approach
• Implement contract testing, service virtualization, and data-driven validation
• Drive migration from Selenium-heavy UI automation to layered API, integration, and minimal UI testing
• Apply AI-assisted and agentic testing approaches
• Partner with developers to improve testability, observability, and API-first practices
• Collaborate with DevOps and release engineering on reliable automated deployments
• Lead root cause analysis for production issues and implement preventative engineering solutions
• Advocate for shift-left quality practices
• Implement automated validation across API, service, and system layers to prevent defect leakage
• Execute performance, security, and regression validation through automated frameworks integrated into pipelines

• Lead end-to-end Quality Engineering for the Commercial Banking Transformation program and subsequent strategic initiatives
• Establish and execute Quality Engineering strategies, test plans, delivery roadmaps, quality gates, governance models, and reporting approaches
• Lead functional, API certification, system integration, regression, accessibility, performance, security, operational readiness, production validation, and related quality activities
• Coordinate Quality Engineering across workstream leads, engineers, architects, business stakeholders, operations teams, product teams, and vendors
• Maintain visibility into scope coverage, requirements readiness, test design, execution, automation, environments, test data, defects, dependencies, and release readiness
• Translate program milestones and business objectives into executable plans, readiness criteria, and traceable quality evidence
• Identify cross-workstream risks, gaps, overlaps, and dependencies
• Provide evidence-based reporting to program leadership and governance forums
• Apply commercial banking transformation expertise across member journeys, banking capabilities, integrations, data flows, and operational processes
• Validate digital banking platforms and integrations with core banking, payment, document, identity, card, customer information, and third-party systems
• Define risk-based coverage for authorization, entitlements, transaction processing, exception handling, reconciliation, auditability, accessibility, security, and operational controls
• Establish scalable Quality Engineering operating models, shift-left practices, test levels, quality gates, entry and exit criteria, ownership boundaries, and escalation paths
• Lead and coach Quality Engineers and workstream QE leads in automation design, API testing, test architecture, data validation, troubleshooting, and risk-based testing
• Define and evolve API-first automation across service, integration, data, and targeted user-interface layers
• Apply contract testing, schema validation, service virtualization, integration testing, and data-driven validation
• Integrate automated quality controls and risk-based gates into development and deployment pipelines
• Partner with product, engineering, architecture, operations, security, accessibility, and delivery teams to improve testability and prevent defects
• Lead root-cause analysis for significant defects and production issues
• Design, build, review, and troubleshoot automated validation across API, service, integration, data, system, and user-interface layers
• Validate complex end-to-end workflows across multiple systems, vendors, environments, and data sources
• Contribute to automation frameworks, shared utilities, test harnesses, pipeline integration, test data solutions, and technical proofs of concept
• Use logs, service responses, databases, events, and monitoring data to diagnose failures and isolate root causes