QA Automation Senior Manager

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Toronto, ON, CAN
In-Office
Senior level
Information Technology • Consulting
The Role
Leads enterprise-wide QA automation and quality engineering strategy across banking platforms. Responsibilities include transforming manual QA teams into automation-first organizations, integrating testing with CI/CD and DevOps, overseeing performance and non-functional testing, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing stakeholders, and developing QA talent. The role requires deep banking domain knowledge, hands-on automation expertise, cloud experience, and leadership of large-scale quality initiatives.
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Role Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Senior Manager – QA-Automation to lead and scale enterprise-wide quality engineering practices within a fast-paced banking environment. This role will drive automation-first testing strategies, ensure regulatory-compliant software delivery, and lead high-performing QA teams across complex digital and core banking platforms.
The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth in automation frameworks, leadership experience, and domain knowledge in banking/financial services.

Key Responsibilities
1. QA Strategy & Leadership
2. Automation Excellence
3. CI/CD & DevOps Integration
4. Banking Domain Quality Assurance
5. Stakeholder Management
6. Performance & Non-Functional Testing
7. Team Development & Talent Management

Required Qualifications / Experience:
• 12–18+ years in QA/Test Engineering, with 5+ years in leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading large-scale QA automation initiatives in banking/financial services.
• Demonstrated success in transforming manual QA teams into automation-first organizations.

Technical Skills
• Strong expertise in programming languages: Python, Java, or JavaScript.
• Hands-on experience with:
• Automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, etc.)
• API testing tools
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Domain Knowledge
• Deep understanding of banking systems, payment processing, and financial regulations.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with AI/ML in testing (self-healing automation, predictive analytics).
• Knowledge of micro services architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Exposure to test data management and service virtualization tools.


Skills Required

  • 12-18+ years of experience in QA or Test Engineering
  • 5+ years of experience in QA leadership roles
  • Experience leading large-scale QA automation initiatives in banking or financial services
  • Success transforming manual QA teams into automation-first organizations
  • Strong expertise in Python, Java, or JavaScript
  • Hands-on experience with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or similar automation frameworks
  • Experience with API testing tools
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud environments
  • Deep understanding of banking systems and payment processing
  • Understanding of financial regulations and highly regulated environments
  • Experience with AI/ML in testing, including self-healing automation or predictive analytics
  • Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Exposure to test data management and service virtualization tools
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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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