Technical Quality Engineering Lead

TRADER Corporation is a trusted Canadian leader in online media, dealer and lender services. The company is comprised of AutoTrader.ca, AutoSync and Dealertrack Canada. AutoTrader.ca (AutoHebdo.net in Quebec) offers the largest inventory of new cars and used cars in Canada, receiving over 25 million monthly visits to its marketplace. With over 3,500 subscribers and counting, AutoSync is the largest and fastest growing dealer and OEM software provider in Canada. The platform's suite of connected automotive software solutions brings advertising, conversion and operational support together, synchronizing the entire retail process. AutoSync's diverse range of offerings includes: vAuto, EasyDeal, xtime, Motoinsight, Activix, TAdvantage and TRFFK. Dealertrack is Canada’s largest automotive financing portal, enhancing efficiency and profitability for all major segments of the automotive, marine, recreational vehicle, motorcycle and powersport retail industries. Over 6.5 million credit applications are submitted via the Dealertrack Canada portal each year. Collateral Management is a national, end-to-end, managed technology solution that offers industry insight and multi-channel collection strategies to maximize funds recovered. Collateral Management helps you remain compliant in all jurisdictions, alleviating your exposure to reputational and financial risks. Visit tradercorporation.com to learn more. .

TRADER Corporation's parent company AutoScout24 is the largest pan-European online car market with over 2 million listings and more than 43,000 dealer customers. With AutoScout24, users can find, finance, buy, subscribe for and sell used and new cars. The marketplace provides inspiration on cars and other vehicles and makes hard decisions easy.

Since 1998 AutoScout24 has been offering private users, car dealers and other cooperation partners from the automotive, financial and insurance services sector a comprehensive digital platform for car trading. The online marketplace includes used and new cars, motorcycles as well as commercial vehicles. AutoScout24 has over 30 million users per month, more than 43,000 dealers and around 500 employees. In addition to Germany, AutoScout24 is also represented in the European core markets of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, France and Austria.

More information on www.autoscout24.de

Experience leveraging AI, Generative AI (GenAI) to enhance engineering productivity, automate repetitive tasks, and optimize workflows. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to integrate AI-driven solutions into their daily work — such as code generation, debugging, reviews, documentation, and decision support—to improve efficiency for themselves and their teams. A proactive approach to exploring and implementing AI tools that drive innovation and streamline development processes is highly valued

The Technical QE Lead works across agile teams to ensure they meet functional, performance, and code standard requirements. This role requires that software engineering best practices be applied to the domain of software quality testing. Working closely with engineering managers, product owners, and other agile team members, the QE Tech Lead ensures that the desired results for our services are achieved, maintained, and follow up-to-date industry standards.

What you'll do:

· Defining quality testing standards and metrics for our products and projects.

· Continually improve our testing standards, tools, and processes.

· Defining best practices for test coverage, automation and the general testing lifecycle.

· Help bring AI-driven practices to our QA process

· Coach and mentor the development and QA team on testing best practices

· Communicating with all stakeholders to ensure the quality metrics are agreed upon and continually reviewed.

· Ensure testing metrics are visible via reporting and dashboards.

· Ensuring all development tasks meet quality standards through test planning, test execution, quality assurance and defect tracking.

· Develop and ensure a strategy that favors test automation over manual testing.

· Maintain and expand existing automation frameworks or automation partners.

· Ensure proper test plan and stakeholders review process.

· Ensure proper coverage of various testing strategies like unit, functional, performance, stress, acceptance, etc.

· Be a point of contact for all the escalations related to testing and quality assurance.

· Assist in creating quality assurance objectives.

· Work with the team to improve the CI/CD and deployment pipeline.

What you bring to the table:

·  Experience managing the technical path of distributed teams of SDETs

·  An expert in both manual and automated testing

·  Proven ability to explore new technologies and helping teams to use them

·  A passion for AI and how it can apply to the QA domain

·  Strong knowledge of the “Test Pyramid” and general testing strategies.

·  Strong programming skills and software development best practices (JavaScript, Python, etc)

·  Strong with test case management best practices and tooling.

Must have experience:

·  6+ years hands-on software testing and development experience.

·  Strong experience testing high traffic public facing website UIs and APIs

·  Strong command of the Playwright automation framework

·  Hands on experience using Generative AI tooling to optimize QA operations

·  Hands-on experience with automation and automation environment requirements

·  Experience with formal test case management software

·  Experience providing QA health reports that track relevant key metrics

·  Experience with load testing using JMeter, or similar.

·  Experience working within a formal CI/CD pipeline.

·  Good understanding of version control tools such as GIT.

·  Agile team and methodology experience.

Nice to have Experience:

·  Native web application mobile testing and automation experience (iOS, Android)

·  Experience in BDD/TDD.

·  AWS code pipeline - build and deployment experience.

·  Jira/Confluence experience.

·  Kanban tools and processes experience.

·  Datadog hands on experience.

What’s in it for you…

-We understand that there is life at work and life outside of work. Here are a few benefits we all benefit from that support us to be our creative best.

Fitness and wellness

-We provide discounts to nation-wide gyms, onsite gyms (when we’re in the office), an Employee and Family Assistance Program, as well as a virtual wellness program.

Benefits from Day 1

-Gym discounts

-Local in-office free gyms

-Employee and Family Assistance program

-Weekly virtual wellness events

-Conferences & training budget

-Regular internal training programs

Financial planning

-Let us help you invest in your future with 3% matching towards your pension and multiple forms of income protection.

Competitive salary

-Annual bonus structure

-3% CPP matching