Quality Engineering Lead, Digital & Tech Platforms

Vancity

. Lead end-to-end Quality Engineering for the Commercial Banking Transformation program and subsequent strategic initiatives .

Posted 9/17/2026full-timeVancouver • CanadaSenior💰 CA$113,000 - CA$153,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading Quality Engineering initiatives within commercial banking, focusing on automation, risk-based testing, and integration across multiple platforms. Proficient in establishing quality strategies, test plans, and evidence-based reporting to ensure operational readiness and compliance.

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Quality Engineering LeadershipAutomation Framework DesignAPI Testing and IntegrationRisk-Based Test StrategiesCommercial Banking Expertise

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Hard Skills

Quality EngineeringAutomation EngineeringAPI TestingIntegration TestingEnd-to-End TestingRegression TestingPerformance TestingSecurity TestingData ValidationTroubleshooting

Soft Skills

CommunicationInfluenceLeadership

Tools & Technologies

Intellect Design ArenaTemenos T24Automation FrameworksDelivery PipelinesTest Harnesses

Industry Keywords

Commercial BankingDigital BankingCore Banking IntegrationsOperational ReadinessAccess and Entitlement Models

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

10 or more years of experience in software engineering, Quality Engineering, test engineering, or a closely related field
Hands-on Quality Engineering experience with Intellect Design Arena’s Contextual Banking experience platform or directly comparable commercial banking transformation experience
Functional, API, integration, data, end-to-end, and automation testing experience within a complex commercial banking implementation
Hands-on experience testing Temenos T24 or a similar core banking platform, including direct functional, integration, API, data, or end-to-end testing
Experience leading end-to-end Quality Engineering for complex programs involving multiple workstreams, integrated platforms, internal teams, third-party vendors, and major dependencies
Strong hands-on automation engineering and programming experience
Experience designing scalable automation frameworks, reviewing code and architecture, integrating automated tests into delivery pipelines, and troubleshooting technical failures
Strong understanding of commercial banking journeys, digital banking platforms, core banking integrations, access and entitlement models, transaction processing, data migration, and operational readiness
Experience developing risk-based test strategies and plans covering functional, API, integration, end-to-end, regression, performance, security, accessibility, reliability, resilience, and production readiness
Experience establishing traceability and evidence-based reporting across requirements, test coverage, automation, defects, environments, test data, risks, and release readiness
Ability to lead workstream QE leads and senior Quality Engineers through influence in a matrix or dotted-line model
Ability to communicate technical status, risks, and recommendations in clear business language
Willingness or ability to work in British Columbia or Ontario and attend on-site events and business needs when required

Benefits

Comp & perks

Annual incentive program, subject to program eligibility requirements
Flexible benefit packages customizable annually
3–4 weeks of vacation per year for new employees, with additional days earned over time
2 extra statutory holidays in addition to BC’s 11 statutory holidays
Care days for personal or family illness
Health and dental benefits beginning on the hire date, with three coverage levels
Defined benefit pension providing guaranteed income for life
Career development opportunities through Vancity Talent Programs
Inclusive, barrier-free and accessible recruitment experience
Accommodation and support during the recruitment process