About the Role

We're looking for a highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team as Director, Quality Engineering. In this role, you will hire, train, coach, and manage a team of testers while fostering a collaborative and high-performance team environment. You will modernize our testing toolkit, processes, and testing stack and optimize test processes to increase the flow of value. You will also collaborate with technology and business partners to evaluate vendor products and proposals and ensure selected solutions meet quality standards and align with business objectives.

What You'll Do

• Hire, train, coach, and manage a team of testers.
• Optimize and build test processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Develop and implement strategies to increase the flow of value in the development process.
• Train the team on test best practices, including Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).
• Leverage strong agile experience to guide the team in adopting and implementing agile practices.
• Lead the modernization of the testing toolkit, tools, and testing stack to align with current and future technological advancements.
• Evaluate and integrate new testing tools and frameworks to enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and coverage of the testing process.
• Work closely with partners in technology and business to evaluate vendor products and proposals, including those from test and development partners.
• Use data and metrics, to set KPIs to measure areas of improvement, concern, and act accordingly to improve, a PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) cycle.
• Participate and lead the vendor selection for our initiatives, assuring element's quality requirements are met.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Quality Engineering Lead or similar role (3 years).
• Demonstrated ability to hire, train, coach, and manage a team of testers (3 years).
• Strong knowledge of test methodologies, agile testing, and best practices such as TDD and BDD.
• Diverse background in test automation, front-end and backend testing, test data management, performance testing, and negative testing (5 years, hands-on work).
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience evaluating vendor products and proposals.
• Strong agile experience, with a solid understanding of agile frameworks and practices.
• Experience in modernizing testing toolkits, tools, and testing stacks.
• Proficiency in designing, implementing and maintaining automated test scripts.
• Experience with automation tools such as Selenium, Appium, TestNG, JUnit and similar frameworks.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and experience integrating testing processes into CI/CD environments using tools like Jenkins, Circle CI or Gitlab CI.

Location: 1 Adelaide St. E, Toronto, Ontario

Compensation

The hiring base salary range for this position is $162700 - $223,700 annually. This range represents the Company's good-faith estimate of the expected base salary at the time of posting. Salary ranges may vary based on the geographic location where the work is performed. The salary range listed in this posting applies only to the location identified. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors, including the successful candidate's qualifications, knowledge, skills, experience, internal pay equity, and relevant market data. In addition to base salary, eligible employees may participate in annual incentive programs, including bonuses, commissions, or other incentive compensation, as applicable to the role. Element also offers a comprehensive benefits package, which may include health insurance, tuition reimbursement, and retirement savings plans.

What's in it for You
• A culture of innovation, empowerment, decision-making, and accountability
• Comprehensive health and welfare benefits that serve the needs of you and your family and foster a culture of wellness (for qualified roles)
• Additional benefits and amenities, including paid time-off programs (vacation, sick leave, and holidays) (for qualified roles)

Applicants will be required to undergo a background check only if and after a conditional offer of employment has been extended.