Gestionnaire QA – Tests de paiements, d’API et d’événements / QA Lead – Payments, API & Event Testin in Québec

EXPLEO GROUP CANADA is looking for a QA Lead – Payments, API & Event Testing to join our team in Montreal, QC (hybrid role).

Location: Montreal, Quebec

Work arrangement: Hybrid (2-3 days onsite per week)

Client Domain: Banking / Payments

Mandate duration: Minimum 1 year

Hourly rate: $90-110 CAD/hr. The applicable salary will be determined by various criteria, including the candidate’s skills, experience, and qualifications.

Date of start: September 14 (or earlier if possible)

What we offer:

• Medical insurance, including telemedicine.
• Dental insurance.
• Long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Five paid personal days per year.
• Vacation accumulation and protection of statutory holidays as per law.
• Employee referral bonus up to $1,000 CAD, subject to eligibility.
• Training, professional development, and internal career opportunities.
• For eligible billable employees, group insurance generally starts after three months of employment.

About the role:

This position combines practical quality engineering responsibilities with a QA leadership role across multiple teams and initiatives. You will validate critical payment and transaction flows through APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven platforms like Kafka, while driving testing strategy, quality risk management, and uniform application of standards within delivery teams. This role is ideal for a senior QA professional looking to remain technically involved while leading quality at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Leadership and quality coordination: Lead and coordinate testing activities across multiple teams, projects, and initiatives related to payments.
• Establish and promote quality practices, testing standards, and consistent delivery processes across teams.
• Develop and maintain integrated testing strategies and plans aligned with business and delivery objectives.
• Coordinate testing schedules, dependencies, environments, and resource needs among teams.
• Facilitate anomaly triage activities and ensure critical issues are properly prioritized and resolved.
• Identify, communicate, and manage testing risks, quality gaps, and concerns regarding production readiness.
• Provide stakeholders and management with reports on quality status, testing metrics, and risk assessments.
• Mentor and support QA team members while promoting best practices in testing and quality engineering.
• Collaborate with business, product, architecture, and development teams to ensure quality is considered throughout the delivery cycle.

Quality engineering – practical role:

• Design, document, and execute test cases for banking and payment transaction flows through APIs, integrations, and event systems.
• Validate the quality, reliability, resilience, and testability of solutions throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Test critical payment flows in distributed architectures, including API transactions, messaging platforms, event processing, and associated business outcomes.
• Develop and execute multi-level testing strategies, including API, integration, end-to-end, and non-functional testing.
• Contribute to test automation initiatives where relevant, including API, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of automated testing assets as needed by the team.
• Use quality metrics, anomaly trends, and operational data to continuously improve testing efficiency and reduce delivery risks.
• Track and manage anomalies, testing execution activities, and quality metrics using Jira or similar tools.

Qualifications:

• 8 to 12 years or more of experience in software quality assurance, testing, or quality engineering.
• Prior experience leading testing efforts across multiple teams, releases, or delivery streams.
• Strong experience in API testing, including validating requests/responses, integration points, payloads, and transaction flows.
• Experience in testing event-driven architectures and messaging-based systems, including Kafka or similar technologies.
• Experience in creating testing strategies, test plans, test estimates, and test reports.
• Experience coordinating testing activities across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Experience in creating test cases, executing tests, analyzing results, and managing anomalies to resolution.
• Strong understanding of integration testing and end-to-end business process validation.
• Experience in Agile delivery environments.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to prioritize testing activities based on business risk and criticality.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and drive quality-focused decisions within delivery teams.
• Bilingual communication skills in French and English.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Desired skills and experience:

• Experience in the banking, financial services, or payments sectors.
• Experience in testing payment processing systems, financial transaction platforms, or regulated environments.
• Experience leading distributed testing initiatives or involving multiple teams.
• Experience contributing to test automation initiatives.
• Knowledge of Java and/or Python.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Knowledge of CI/CD concepts and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience with Jira and related quality management tools.
• Prior experience in large enterprise environments.

About Expleo:

Expleo is a global organization specializing in engineering, production support, MRO, quality, and consulting services, present in over 30 countries. Our values are Courage, Excellence, Collaboration, Respect, and Responsibility.

Expleo is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to preventing discrimination at all stages of the recruitment process and ensuring fair and impartial hiring practices.

For more information, visit www.expleogroup.com.