Lead Quality Assurance Engineer (RISE Initiative)
Location: PCS CA, Toronto
Years of Experience: 7-10 Years
Job Summary: We are seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to serve as a technical quality leader within the RISE transformation initiative. This critical role involves driving end-to-end reliability and structural integrity across mission-critical data applications, safeguarding high-volume enterprise operations against computational errors, data loss, and operational downtime during large-scale platform evolution.
Responsibilities
- Lead the complete testing life cycle for complex data streams and transformation processes supporting the enterprise RISE program.
- Design and execute end-to-end data migration and conversion test strategies across legacy, intermediate, and modern target platforms.
- Perform multi-format file validation to confirm schema accuracy, record counts, delimiter structures, payload integrity, and structural precision.
- Validate high-throughput data pipelines for completeness, referential integrity, field-level mapping rules, and execution of business logic.
- Formulate risk-focused test plans, data validation matrices, and release readiness criteria aligned with broader project milestones.
- Perform in-depth root-cause analysis on complex data defects, schema mismatches, mapping failures, and downstream operational anomalies.
Mandatory Skills
- RISE Program & Core Architecture Testing - Expert
- File Validation & Schema Verification - Expert
- Data Testing & Reconciliation Frameworks - Expert
- Data Migration Testing Strategies - Expert
- Data Conversion Testing Execution - Expert
- Advanced SQL & Complex Database Querying - Expert
Preferred Skills
- Test Automation (Data & API Scripts) - Intermediate
- Legacy Data Migration & Modernization - Advanced
- API & Web Services Testing - Intermediate
- Test Strategy & Scenario Design - Advanced
- CI/CD Pipeline Data Integration - Intermediate
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Proven experience in quality assurance and testing methodologies, particularly in data-centric environments.
