Quality Assurance Lead

Winnipeg, MB • Contract • June 28, 2025 • 81268

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

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