Lead QA Automation Engineer

About the Job: We are seeking a Lead QA Automation Engineer to drive the quality strategy, design scalable automation frameworks, and lead a high-performing QA team. In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional teams—including Engineering, Product, and DevOps—to ensure high-quality delivery across modern web, API, and enterprise applications.

Office Location: Toronto

Employment Type: Permanent

Role Type: New position

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (3 days/week in office)

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead QA strategy, planning, and execution across multiple projects and teams

• Design, develop, and scale robust automation frameworks for UI, API, and end-to-end testing

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to QA engineers, fostering best practices and continuous improvement

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, and DevOps to ensure testability and quality throughout the SDLC

• Drive end-to-end automation, including building frameworks from scratch where required

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and faster releases

• Oversee test planning, test case design, execution, and defect management

• Ensure comprehensive coverage across functional, regression, integration (SIT), and UAT testing

• Work closely with release management and deployment teams to support smooth product releases

• Establish QA standards, documentation, test architecture, and governance practices

• Analyze quality metrics and provide insights to stakeholders for continuous improvement

• Act as a key escalation point for quality risks, defects, and production issues

Requirements

• Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of software testing experience within

• Agile development teams

• 7+ years of strong hands-on test automation

experience

• Proven experience leading QA teams or acting in

• a Lead capacity

• Expertise in automation tools such as Selenium,

• WebdriverIO, REST Assured, Postman, or similar

• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or

• JavaScript/TypeScript

• Demonstrated experience building automation

• frameworks from scratch

• Hands-on experience with BDD/TDD frameworks (Cucumber, Cypress, Playwright, Webdriver.io, TestNG, etc.)

• Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.)

• Strong understanding of QA methodologies and

• testing types (UI, API, Functional, Regression, SIT, UAT)

• Experience with defect tracking and test

• management tools (JIRA, etc.)

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management,

• and leadership skills

• Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with SAP web testing

• Exposure to performance testing and security

• testing practices

• Experience in Agile Release Train environments

• (SAFe) or large-scale delivery programs

Benefits

• Salary Range: $100,000 to $110,000 CAD/ year

• The final compensation offered will depend on local market

• conditions and geographic location, as well as job-related factors such as the

• candidate’s knowledge, skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and

• education/training. Compensation may also include additional components such as

• benefits, and/or other incentives, where applicable. In accordance with new

• employment standards requirements, we retain copies of this job posting and

• applicant information for three (3) years after the posting is removed. We do

• not use AI technology; all applications are also reviewed by our recruitment

• team.

• Infoya is an equal opportunity employer committed to

• diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all qualified

• individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation,

• gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status,

• aboriginal status, or any other legally protected factors.