Automation QA Lead

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Toronto, ON, CAN
In-Office
Senior level
Information Technology • Consulting
The Role
Lead QA automation strategy and framework development across web, API, mobile, and data platforms. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines, drive functional, regression, performance, integration, and security coverage, and champion responsible GitHub Copilot adoption. Mentor QA engineers, establish governance and quality standards, report risks and metrics to leadership, and ensure testing complies with banking regulations, privacy requirements, security standards, and audit expectations.
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Job Summary
Seeking a QA Automation Senior / Lead with deep expertise in test automation, quality engineering, and AI-powered development tools, particularly GitHub Copilot. This role will lead the adoption of AI-assisted test automation practices, drive quality strategy across digital banking platforms, and ensure secure, scalable, and compliant testing solutions within a regulated financial services environment.
The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on automation experience, leadership capability, and a forward-looking mindset to integrate generative AI responsibly into the QA lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities
QA Automation & Strategy
Lead the design, development, and execution of automated test frameworks for web, API, mobile, and data platforms.
Define and own the QA automation strategy, standards, and best practices aligned with CIBC’s SDLC and DevSecOps pipelines.
Ensure high test coverage across functional, regression, integration, performance, and security testing.

GitHub Copilot & AI Enablement
Champion the use of GitHub Copilot for accelerating test automation development (e.g., test scripts, test data generation, utilities).
Establish governance, guardrails, and best practices for responsible AI usage in QA within a regulated banking environment.
Review, refine, and validate AI-generated test code to ensure quality, security, and maintainability.
Train and mentor QA and development teams on the effective use of Copilot for testing.

CI/CD & DevSecOps Integration
Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.).
Enable shift-left testing and continuous quality practices across agile teams.
Collaborate closely with DevOps and Security teams to embed quality and compliance checks early in the pipeline.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of QA automation engineers.
Partner with Product Owners, Developers, Architects, and Business stakeholders to define test strategy and quality metrics.
Provide test status, quality insights, and risk assessments to senior leadership.

Banking, Risk & Compliance
Ensure QA processes comply with banking regulations, risk management, data privacy, and security standards.
Support audit, regulatory, and compliance activities with robust test evidence and documentation.

Required Qualifications
Technical Skills
8+ years in QA, with 3+ years in a QA Automation Lead or SME role.
Strong experience with automation tools such as:
Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium
REST API automation (RestAssured, Postman, Karate)
Proficiency in Java, JavaScript, Python, or C#.
Hands-on experience using GitHub Copilot or similar AI coding assistants.
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, source control (GitHub), and DevSecOps practices.
Experience with test reporting, monitoring, and quality metrics.

Domain & Process
Experience in banking or financial services is highly preferred.
Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum and SAFe methodologies.
Knowledge of data privacy, security testing, and risk-based testing approaches.

Leadership & Soft Skills
Proven experience leading and mentoring QA teams.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to influence change and drive AI adoption responsibly.

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with performance testing (JMeter, Gatling).
Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Knowledge of AI/ML testing concepts and test data synthesis using generative AI.
Certifications such as ISTQB, SAFe, or Cloud certifications.


Skills Required

  • 8+ years of QA experience
  • 3+ years in a QA Automation Lead or SME role
  • Strong experience with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, and Appium
  • REST API automation experience with RestAssured, Postman, or Karate
  • Proficiency in Java, JavaScript, Python, or C#
  • Hands-on experience using GitHub Copilot or similar AI coding assistants
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, GitHub source control, and DevSecOps practices
  • Experience with test reporting, monitoring, and quality metrics
  • Experience in banking or financial services
  • Understanding of Agile/Scrum and SAFe methodologies
  • Knowledge of data privacy, security testing, and risk-based testing
  • Experience leading and mentoring QA teams
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to influence change and drive responsible AI adoption
  • Performance testing experience with JMeter or Gatling
  • Exposure to AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Knowledge of AI/ML testing concepts and generative-AI test data synthesis
  • ISTQB, SAFe, or cloud certification
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The Company
HQ: Toronto , ON
1,078 Employees
Year Founded: 1990

What We Do

Kumaran Systems is an IT Services Company with imprints in three countries. The past two decades has seen us provide our global clientele with high-end IT services that include migration support, system integration and infrastructure management solutions, providing one-stop-solution to all your IT demands. Our expertise and in-depth knowledge of businesses help us cater to a variety of industries. Our team strives to know your industry better, by observing current trends and the way it works, to tailor-make our solutions to your needs.With over 20 years of customer orientation, over 2000 engagements across Telecom, Education and Banking & Financial services spread across the globe, Kumaran stands as a key advisor to some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in their business driven technology enablement drive. Kumaran System's Customer Orientation is driven by a global delivery business model giving its customers to choose between an Onshore-Offshore mix. The delivery models enable multilevel touch points between the client, partner networks and Kumaran thereby enabling business driven customer sensitivity and agility. ENGAGE, EMERGE AND EXCEL Involving ourselves in a purposeful action, using our abilities to its maximum, helps us feel positive about ourselves. Such positivity gives raise to positive thinking and positive ideas. Ideas evolve into vision and set our aim! Our aspirations engage us with the incentive of sweet success! Every endeavor has its own pitfalls. Perseverance helps us emerge a successful entrepreneur after any deterrent. In our attempt to achieve our aim, we keep upgrading our knowledge and skill, to surface successful! A genius mind does not work to excel, but excels in work! We challenge ourselves with every next step! We change every deterrent to a stepping stone to success. We essentially, engage, emerge and excel

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