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Associate Director, Quality Engineering (12 Months contract)

Toronto💼 Contract🗓 2026-07-27 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead automation testing strategy for software applications, systems, and databases while integrating AI/ML for predictive testing.

Role type

Associate Director, Quality Engineering (Leadership IC)

Builds

Automated testing frameworks, predictive ML models for QA, CI/CD integrated test suites

Domain

Software Engineering / Quality Assurance / Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Test automation strategy, SQL (complex queries, ETL), Azure ML, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Cypress, Appium, JMeter, LoadRunner, Jenkins, GitLab CI, JIRA, Agile testing, CI/CD integration, performance/load testing

Preferred skills

Azure Purview, Power Automate, Azure DevOps, mentoring large distributed teams, risk management

Technologies

Azure Machine Learning, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Cypress, Appium, JMeter, LoadRunner, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Bamboo, Azure Purview, Power Automate, Azure DevOps, JIRA

Responsibilities

Lead and manage the AQA team including hiring and mentoring; Define and implement strategic vision for test automation; Oversee SQL-based automated tests for database validation; Leverage Azure ML to develop predictive models for automated testing; Guide automation for web, desktop, mobile, APIs, and systems; Drive improvement of automation frameworks and toolsets; Integrate test automation into CI/CD pipelines; Manage performance and load testing; Define and report on quality metrics; Identify and mitigate product quality risks.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on leadership

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