Quality Assurance Lead

Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance Lead
Job ID: 81268
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Overview:
Our client in Winnipeg, MB is looking for a Quality Assurance (QA) Lead resources for a 6+ month contract to start with an extension, reference 219-0625. Candidates that can do hybrid locally are preferred but remote candidates located anywhere in Canada will be considered.


What you will be doing:

QA Department Structure

• Assess current QA team structure and roles

• Recommend optimized organizational design

• Define skill requirements and role responsibilities

QA Strategy & Roadmap

• Develop a short-term and long-term QA roadmap

• Align QA objectives with ITS goals

• Identify key milestones, KPIs, and success metrics

Process Improvement

• Evaluate current QA processes (manual and automated)

• Recommend and help implement process improvements

• Support adoption of industry best practices

Tooling & Automation

• Review existing QA tools and automation coverage

• Recommend improvements or tool changes if needed

• Help define automation strategies and priorities

Training & Knowledge Transfer

• Provide coaching or mentoring to QA leads and team members

• Document frameworks and procedures for future scalability

What you must have:

• 10+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, with at least 3–5 years in a leadership or consulting role

• Proven experience designing and implementing QA strategies in multi-line business environments.

• Hands-on experience setting up QA functions from the ground up in organizations with limited QA maturity.

• Experience working with hybrid QA models involving QA teams, business testers, and development teams.

• Prior involvement in supporting the buildout of in-house development teams and aligning QA accordingly.

• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute QA roadmaps aligned with organization strategies.  

Process & Methodology Skills

• Strong understanding of QA methodologies (manual and automated), test lifecycle management, and risk-based testing

• Experience implementing QA best practices in Agile, Scrum, and/or DevOps environments

• Knowledge of CI/CD practices, release management, and QA's role in continuous delivery pipelines

• Ability to establish and monitor QA metrics, KPIs, and dashboards

Tooling & Technical Skills:

• Familiarity with modern QA tools for test management

• Experience selecting and implementing QA tools based on organization needs and maturity

• Understanding of automation frameworks and ability to assess automation ROI

Soft Skills & Leadership

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Capable of mentoring and upskilling junior QA team members and business testers

• Experience delivering QA strategy presentations to executive leadership

 Additional Requirements

• Experience in industries with regulatory or compliance requirements.   Experience in public sector is an asset

• Exposure to enterprise architecture or cross-functional systems integration

• Familiarity with change management and organizational adoption of new QA practices

• Must have Windows based computer with standard Windows applications.

• Computer must be configured for MS Teams meetings and capable of connecting to MBLL’s Microsoft environment and applications such as SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive.

• Must have own MS Visio license.

• Must possess own communication device.

• All applicants must clear a background check.

• A Canadian based federal security clearance is considered an asset

For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com