Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hours:
37.5
Line of Business:
Technology Solutions
Pay Details:
$81,600 - $115,200 CAD
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Job Description:
Quality Engineering II - Payments
Senior hands-on quality engineering leadership for Payments Global Transfer current state applications and modernization initiatives
Role objective: Lead a team of approximately 5-6 Quality Engineers while remaining hands-on in automation development, test architecture, estimation, work allocation, and delivery. Ensure scalable automated test coverage across the Payments Global Transfer application portfolio.
Role Summary
The Quality Engineering II - Payments role is a senior, hands-on player-coach position responsible for leading quality practices across Payments Global Transfer current state applications and modernization initiatives. The role combines strategic quality planning, team leadership, delivery coordination, and concise stakeholder communication with direct contribution to automated testing, framework development, complex problem solving, release readiness, and continuous improvement.
The successful candidate will guide a team of Quality Engineers, provide reliable estimates, delegate and balance work across QE resources and partner teams, build team capability, and establish clear accountability for reliable automated regression coverage across APIs, microservices, integrations, and critical end-to-end payment journeys.
Job Accountabilities
- Lead, coach, and provide hands-on technical direction to approximately 5-6 Quality Engineers, including automation development, code reviews, troubleshooting, estimation, work allocation, and complex test execution.
- Mentor team members in automation design, coding practices, debugging, test strategy, delivery ownership, and Payments Global Transfer domain knowledge.
- Define and implement an automation-first, risk-based quality engineering strategy with consistent standards, reusable patterns, quality gates, and working agreements across the Payments portfolio.
- Partner with developers, business systems analysts, product owners, architects, and delivery leads to embed quality into requirements, acceptance criteria, solution design, development, deployment, and release planning.
- Own the application and service test coverage inventory and roadmap, including named QE ownership, documented test strategies, automation coverage, execution frequency, dependencies, and prioritized gaps.
- Design, build, maintain, and evolve a common API and integration automation framework and repository model with reusable libraries, data builders, service clients, mocks, and application-level ownership.
- Ensure appropriate automated coverage for functional, negative, security, contract, integration, regression, boundary, failure, idempotency, resiliency, and state-transition scenarios.
- Lead automated testing across REST APIs, microservices, event-driven flows, databases, and downstream integrations, including critical payment, recipient, enrollment, lookup, foreign exchange, vendor connection, scheduling, and notification journeys.
- Integrate reliable and maintainable automated suites into CI/CD pipelines or approved scheduled execution processes, with minimum coverage expectations and actionable quality gates for new services, enhancements, defect fixes, and releases.
- Establish consistent QE estimation, resource allocation, code review, defect-triage, reporting, and delivery practices across the team and partner groups.
- Track and report automation coverage, suite reliability, regression duration, defect leakage, failed quality gates, test debt, release risk, and mitigation progress through a concise dashboard and review cadence.
- Provide evidence-based release-readiness recommendations supported by clear quality metrics, known risks, mitigation plans, and traceability.
- Drive continuous improvement that reduces prioritized automation gaps and test debt while strengthening test effectiveness, execution speed, observability, maintainability, team capability, delivery ownership, and cross-team collaboration.
Experience and/or Education
Preferred qualifications include:
- Progressive experience in Quality Engineering, software testing, or test automation for enterprise applications.
- Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership to QEs or SDETs while remaining hands-on.
- Strong experience testing APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and complex system integrations.
- Proficiency in Java-based test automation using REST Assured and JUnit or TestNG, or equivalent enterprise-grade frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with Postman and automated collection execution using Newman or equivalent tooling.
- Experience with OpenAPI or Swagger specifications, API contract validation, Git-based workflows, and CI/CD integration.
- Ability to estimate work, decompose testing scope, allocate tasks, manage dependencies, and communicate delivery risk.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, stakeholder communication, coaching, and documentation skills.
- Experience working in Agile and DevOps delivery environments.
- Experience in banking, payments, money movement, financial services, or another highly regulated environment.
- Experience testing Kafka or other event-driven architectures and validating asynchronous processing.
- Experience with Testcontainers, contract testing, service virtualization, and test data management.
- Experience with performance and resiliency testing tools such as JMeter, k6, LoadRunner, or approved equivalents.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or comparable log and telemetry tools.
- Working knowledge of Cucumber or BDD for selected business-critical end-to-end journeys, without using feature files as the default layer for every API test.
- Experience supporting API certification, governance, security testing, or penetration-testing readiness.
Additional Information
- API automation: Java, REST Assured, and JUnit/TestNG to build maintainable regression suites for services and integrations.
- Exploratory testing: Postman to validate APIs, investigate defects, and prototype scenarios before automation.
- Pipeline execution: CI/CD, Newman, or framework runners to execute automated suites as deployment and release quality gates.
- Contract validation: OpenAPI/Swagger to validate schemas, compatibility, required fields, and expected API behavior.
- Integration environments: Mocks, service virtualization, and Test containers to create repeatable tests when dependencies or shared environments are constrained.
- Business journeys: Cucumber/BDD, where valuable, to express a limited set of critical cross-service journeys in business-readable form.
- Diagnostics: Logs, traces, and observability tools to identify the causes of test failures and distinguish product, environment, and automation issues.
Who We Are:
TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.
Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs. Learn more
Additional Information:
We’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.
Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.
Colleague Development
If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities.
If you’re passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.
We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.
Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.
Interview Process
We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.
Accommodation
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Language Requirement (Quebec only):
Sans Objet
