Jobs in Nova Scotia

Jobs across Nova Scotia, Canada. Choose a city or town to search nearby.

8,623 listings · 1,267 employers Counted Sep 29, 2026. How we count

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Employers hiring include Loblaw Companies Limited (342 listings), J.D. Irving, Limited (265 listings), Walmart Canada (232 listings).

Common roles: Retail sales associate, Customer service representative, Stock associate.

524 of these listings include employer-provided pay. Open a job to see its currency and pay period.

Advertised starting pay
Pay period	Median starting pay	Listings
CAD / hour	19.00	264
CAD / year	75,000.00	197
USD / hour	17.85	24

Employer-listed minimums from at least 10 listings per currency and pay period. These are advertised starting amounts, not employee salaries. Jobs without a minimum and unusual amounts are excluded.

Workplace classifications: 0% remote, 11% hybrid, 89% on-site, 0% not specified. Hybrid and on-site classifications may be inferred from descriptions. Check the original ad.

Based on the dated count above. Listings can change. How we count

Jobs in Nova Scotia

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Gala Solutions

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Halifax, NS, Canada

Job type: Contract
Apply by: Oct 28, 2026
Posting language: English
Posted: Sep 28, 2026

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Original job description

Job Title: Lead QA engineer

Location: Halifax (onsite)

12-Month Contract

Role Overview

The Lead QA will be responsible for the end-to-end quality assurance of the solution, including understanding the overall system architecture and business flows, coordinating requirements and testing activities across participating systems, and providing technical and functional guidance to the offshore QA team.

Key Responsibilities

Develop a holistic understanding of the end-to-end system, integrations, business processes, and application flows.
Lead QA requirement elicitation and clarification with various participating systems, application teams, business stakeholders, and SMEs.
Analyze requirements, functional specifications, interface specifications, and solution designs to identify test scenarios and dependencies.
Define the overall test strategy, approach, scope, test scenarios, and coverage for end-to-end testing.
Coordinate with participating systems to understand upstream/downstream dependencies, data requirements, interfaces, and expected system behavior.
Lead and coordinate the offshore QA team, including task allocation, technical guidance, reviews, and progress tracking.
Review test cases, test scripts, test data, and automation assets developed by the QA team.
Ensure coverage of functional, integration, system, regression, and end-to-end testing across all applicable flows.
Coordinate test execution across multiple teams and systems and track testing progress against milestones.
Manage defect identification, triage, prioritization, root-cause analysis, and resolution coordination with development and participating teams.
Facilitate defect triage and testing status meetings with relevant stakeholders.
Identify testing risks, gaps, dependencies, and blockers and drive them to closure.
Prepare and maintain QA deliverables, including test strategy, test plans, test scenarios, execution reports, defect reports, traceability, and test closure reports.
Provide regular QA status updates, metrics, risks, and issues to project leadership.
Support SIT, UAT, regression, release validation, and production readiness activities.
Ensure adherence to QA processes, standards, and project quality gates.

Key Skills / Experience

Strong experience in end-to-end system/integration testing.
Experience working across multiple applications and participating systems.
Strong requirement elicitation and stakeholder management skills.
Experience leading onsite/offshore QA teams.
Strong understanding of API, integration, database, messaging, and enterprise application testing.
Experience with defect management and test management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent.
Strong analytical, communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to understand complex system flows and translate them into comprehensive test coverage.
Experience in Agile delivery environments and working with distributed teams.

Key Outcome:

The Lead QA will act as the single QA point of coordination and ownership across the end-to-end solution, ensuring that requirements, dependencies, test coverage, execution, defects, and stakeholder coordination are effectively managed across all participating systems.

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Responsibilities

Own end-to-end quality assurance across the solution, including test strategy, requirements clarification, test coverage, execution coordination, and defect management across participating systems. Lead and guide the offshore QA team, coordinate with stakeholders, and report testing progress, risks, and quality outcomes to project leadership.

Requirements

Requires strong experience in end-to-end system and integration testing across multiple applications, along with expertise in API, database, messaging, and enterprise application testing. Candidates should have experience leading distributed QA teams, eliciting requirements, managing stakeholders and defects, and working in Agile environments.

Skills

End-to-End Testing
Integration Testing
Requirements Elicitation
Stakeholder Management
QA Team Leadership
API Testing
Database Testing
Messaging Testing
Enterprise Application Testing
Defect Management
Test Management
Test Strategy
Test Case Review
Agile Delivery
Risk Management
Root-Cause Analysis

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Keywords

Quality Assurance
End-to-End Testing
System Testing
Integration Testing
Regression Testing
Functional Testing
SIT
UAT
API Testing
Database Testing
Messaging
Enterprise Applications
Requirements Elicitation
Test Strategy
Test Plans
Test Scenarios
Test Data
Test Automation
Defect Triage
Root-Cause Analysis
Jira
Azure DevOps
Agile
Offshore QA
Release Validation
Production Readiness
Traceability
Stakeholder Management

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