Quality Assurance Lead in Test

Hybrid: Markham, Ontario Job Description: About Us  Pet Valu is Canada’s leading pet specialty retailer, dedicated to strengthening the bond between dedicated pet lovers and their pets. With 50 years of animal care expertise, we operate over 800 stores across Canada under several banners, including Pet Valu, Bosley’s, Total Pet, Paulmac's Pet, Tisol & Chico. Guided by our mission to deliver products, care, expertise, and memorable moments, Pet Valu is a place where people build meaningful careers while making a positive impact on pets and communities. Job Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Quality Assurance in Test with extensive experience in all aspects of software testing throughout the SDLC. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, high-performance automated tests for web, desktop, and mobile applications. You will collaborate with developers and other QA team members to drive our automation-first quality engineering strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, drive innovation, and make a significant impact on our organization’s testing strategy. Essential Roles and Responsibilities: Review and Analyze: Review and analyze development story acceptance criteria for completeness. Review code and architecture and provide feedback with the aim of improving testability of systems and code. Design and Development: Design, develop, and execute automated testing of web, desktop, and mobile applications using tools such as Selenium, Postman, ERP, etc. Your automated tests will identify potential flaws in key business software and systems that are critical to business operations. You will prevent downtime, revenue loss, and ensure top notch customer experiences across multiple applications across departments. Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Monitor regularly scheduled automated test runs, reporting on test execution, creating tickets for remediation of both application defects and test defects. Reporting: Produce regular reports or dashboards highlighting test coverage, defect statistics and trends, application performance testing results, etc. Code Quality & Best Practices : Ensure code quality by writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code, conducting code reviews, and maintaining coding standards across the team. Contribute to best practice documentation for QA and Development team members. DevOps & CI/CD: Assist infrastructure and development teams in identifying opportunities to enhance CI/CD processes with additional automated testing. Team Collaboration: Work closely with developers to encourage a shift left approach to quality engineering ensuring code and applications are always designed with automated testing in mind. Provide mentorship and guidance to other QA team members and developers on best practices and maximizing the opportunities for automated testing. Cross-functional collaboration: You will work closely with…