CareerPlanSign in

Director, Quality Assurance

Ottawa, ON, ca💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Define and advance enterprise quality strategy and engineering capability for a global SaaS platform, embedding quality throughout the software development lifecycle to improve product reliability and delivery velocity.

Role type

Director, Quality Engineering / Quality Assurance

Builds

Scalable, risk-based quality operating model, automated testing frameworks, and global QA organization

Domain

B2B SaaS, Product Intelligence, Cloud Architecture

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Strategic planning, team leadership and scaling, test automation strategy, CI/CD integration, risk-based testing, executive communication, cloud architecture understanding, global team management

Preferred skills

AI-assisted testing adoption, transformation of QA functions in complex environments, data-driven insight generation

Technologies

CI/CD pipelines, cloud architectures, APIs, microservices, data integrations

Responsibilities

Define and execute enterprise QA strategy; lead and scale a globally distributed QA organization; establish quality standards, governance, and operating models; drive adoption of test-driven development and Agentic Delivery Lifecycle; partner with Product and Engineering on quality by design; define release-readiness criteria and quality measures; evaluate emerging capabilities like AI for testing.

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership & organization building

Sourced via smartrecruiters · Listed on CareerPlan, which tracks 70,000+ jobs from 20+ sources.