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Salary: CAD 130,000 - 160,000 / annual
Cardata is transforming how businesses manage vehicle reimbursement with smart, automated software solutions. We're seeking a QA Architect to own quality strategy, automation, and CI enforcement across the engineering organization.
This is a strategic, high-impact role that sets the standard for how the company builds, tests, and ships software. You will not execute test cases; instead, you'll architect quality frameworks, design test infrastructure, and embed quality gates into every stage of the software development lifecycle. You have the authority to block releases over quality concerns.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own end-to-end quality strategy across web, APIs, and data layers, including standards, test coverage expectations, and release criteria
- Assess existing products and features to identify quality gaps and establish prioritized test plans based on risk and business impact
- Build and scale automated testing frameworks across unit, integration, end-to-end, and regression testing
- Define tooling, architecture, and shared testing patterns used across engineering squads
- Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to catch regressions before production
- Establish release-readiness standards, testing thresholds, and coverage expectations
- Improve test reliability, pipeline health, automation coverage, and flakiness across critical user flows
- Partner with DevOps/Platform to ensure test environments are stable, fast, and representative of production
- Define and monitor engineering quality metrics that surface trends, risks, and areas for improvement
- Partner with Engineering and Product to build testability into requirements, design, and technical planning
- Drive shift-left practices so quality is considered earlier in the development lifecycle
- Mentor engineers and QA team members on automation, testing practices, and quality ownership
- Participate in incident reviews and post-mortems to turn recurring quality gaps into systemic improvements
- Act as a quality authority on releases, including holding releases when critical standards are not met
Requirements:
- 7–10+ years in software quality, including senior ownership of QA strategy, architecture, or automation
- Experience as a QA Architect, Staff/Principal SDET, Principal QA Engineer, or similar role
- Proven experience building and scaling test automation frameworks
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Jest, Postman, or similar
- Strong experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or Jenkins
- Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript testing environments, REST APIs, and relational databases
- Strong understanding of modern web application architecture and quality engineering practices
- Experience with performance/load testing tools such as k6, Locust, or JMeter is a plus
- Experience using AI development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Copilot to improve testing and automation
- Interest in applying AI to areas such as test generation, defect detection, and pipeline optimization
