Lead QA Engineer

THOMSON REUTERS
Toronto, CA; US
On-site

Job Description

New Position: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs.

Overview

Thomson Reuters is looking for aLead QualityAssuranceEngineerto be part of a highly dynamic team developing our next generation Global Trade Management application suite. Our engineers come from a broad range of backgrounds and experience levels, united by a shared drive to build exceptional software. Successful candidates will typically:

  • Be passionate about software quality and its role in delivering real customer value.
  • Think beyond testcases,they understand the product, the domain, and the user.
  • Measure success by the absence of production incidents, not the volume of tests written.
  • Have a natural curiosity that drives them to ask "why" before "how."
  • Take ownership of quality across the entire SDLC, not just the test phase.
  • Leverage an agentic AI-First approach to all testing and quality operations.

About the Product

Thomson ReutersONESOURCE Global Tradeis a comprehensive software suite designed to streamline and automate international trade management for businesses. It simplifies complex global trade operations by ensuring compliance with ever-changing regulations,optimizingsupply chains, and reducing costs and risks associated with cross-border transactions. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing ERP systems to manage import/export processes, automate trade documentation, and provide real-time visibility into global shipments. Byleveragingup-to-date regulatory content and advanced analytics, ONESOURCE empowers companies to enhance operational efficiency, mitigate compliance risks, and accelerate global growth in a fast-paced, highly regulated trade environment.

About the Role:

  • Own quality outcomes for one or more product domains end-to-end from requirements through production monitoring.
  • Drive a shift-left quality culture by embedding testing strategy and risk analysis early in the design and decomposition process.
  • Lead the design, development, and maintenance of automated test frameworks across UI, API, and data layers.
  • Leverage agentic AI-First tooling to accelerate test generation, coverage analysis, defect triage, and root cause investigation.
  • Define and enforce testing standards, patterns, and best practices across the QA team.
  • Conduct test design reviews and provide constructive feedback to QA engineers.
  • Mentor junior QA engineers, reinforcing best practices and supporting their professional growth.
  • Collaborate closely with developers, product owners, and stakeholders to deeply understand business intent and translate it into comprehensive test strategies.
  • Analyze system behavior holistically.Identifyedge cases, integration risks, and failure modes that others miss.
  • Contribute to observability andmonitoringstrategies, ensuring production quality signals are in place (DataDog, RUM, APM).
  • Ensure all quality activities are properly estimated and delivered to agreedtimeframesand quality standards.
  • Champion continuous improvement of the team's quality processes, tooling, and delivery pipeline.
  • Leverage "innovation time" to explore new testing approaches, tools, and automation strategies.

About You:

  • 5+ years of experience in software quality engineering within the Global Trade industry, specifically inlogistics, customs, or supply chain management.
  • 10+ years of overall software quality engineering experience across diverse tech stacks and application types.
  • Proven ability to think at the system and domain levelshowingunderstandingofhow components interact and where risk lives, not just executing test cases.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience using agentic AI-First development and testing tools and processes.
  • Strongproficiencyin test automation across UI, API, and data layers using modern frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, Cypress,RestAssured, or equivalent).
  • Proficiencyin testing REST APIs, including tooling such as Swagger and Postman.
  • Experience testing applications built on .NET (C#, VB.NET) and Angular front-end frameworks.
  • Experiencevalidatingboth SQL and NoSQL data persistence layers (MSSQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).
  • Working knowledge ofDataDogfor observability, APM, and RUM from a quality and monitoring perspective.
  • Experience with AWS and/or GCP cloud-native application testing.
  • Comfort with iterative, spec-light delivery. You will not receive a full spec upfront and will need to think things through, fill in the blanks, and adapt your testing strategy across sprints as the product evolves.
  • A firm understanding of application security testing from both the web service and web application perspective.
  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills with a relentless drive to find root cause.
  • Strong communicationand collaboration skills.Able to clearly articulate quality risk and status to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • SaaS-based software quality engineering

Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

Quality assuranceSoftware qualityTestcasesProductDomainUserProduction incidentsTest phasesSdlcAgentic ai-first approachTest frameworksUiApiData layersTest generationCoverage analysisDefect triageRoot cause investigationTesting standardsPatternsBest practicesTest design reviewsQuality riskStatusStakeholdersObservabilityMonitoringProduction quality signalsDatadogRumApmQuality activitiesTimeframesQuality standardsContinuous improvementQuality processesToolingDelivery pipelineInnovation timeTesting approachesToolsAutomation strategiesApplication security testingWeb serviceWeb applicationDebuggingTroubleshootingRoot causeCommunicationCollaborationSaas-based softwarePassionCuriosityOwnershipCollaborationMentorshipSoftware qualityGlobal tradeLogisticsCustomsSupply chain management

Employment Type

FULL TIME

Level

senior

Posted

4/27/2026

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