The Staff Quality Engineer - Performance Engineering & QE Tools Administrationis a senior technical leaderresponsible for defining, executing, and governing enterprisegrade performance engineering strategywhile also owning administration, and maintenance of core QE toolingacross portfolios.
This role operates at both Practiceand Portfolio / SMElevels-driving nonfunctional quality standards, enabling delivery teams, influencing architecture and design decisions, and ensuring QE platforms (qTest, BlazeMeter, Sauce Labs) are stable, scalable, costeffective, and wellgoverned.
The Staff QE is a handson expert, coach, and steward of quality, ensuring performance, reliability, and observability are built in early and continuously across the SDLC.
What you'll do
Performance Engineering
- Define and evolve enterprise performance engineering standards, frameworks, and reference architectures
- Contribute to QE Practice strategy, roadmaps, and tooling decisions
- Lead performance test strategy, scoping, and impact analysisfor complex digital initiatives across various projects and platforms
- Define and execute nonfunctional test modelsincluding: Load, Stress, Endurance, Spike, Scalability, Volume, and Failover testing
- Actively participate in architecture, design, and nonfunctional requirement reviews, ensuring performance, scalability, and resiliency are addressed early
- Analyze performance results against SLAs, SLOs, and benchmarks, providing actionable tuning and optimization recommendations
- Integrate performance testing and monitoring into CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous performance feedback
- Serve as a performance SMEfor delivery teams, advising on capacity planning, scaling strategies, and release readiness
- Drive continuous improvement initiativesacross nonfunctional testing, tooling, and reporting
- Mentor and coach Senior and Lead QEs, raising the overall quality and performance engineering maturity
- Influence crossportfolio alignment on quality metrics, KPIs, and governance models
QE Tools Administration & Enablement
- Own administration, configuration, and governanceof enterprise QE tools including: qTest, BlazeMeter& Sauce Labs
- Define and maintain tool usage standards, access models, naming conventions, and best practices
- Manage user onboarding, rolebased access, licensing optimization, and cost controlsfor QE platforms
- Partner with vendors and internal platform teams to resolve tool issues, plan upgrades, and evaluate new features and capabilities
- Establish enterprise dashboards and reportingto provide visibility into quality, coverage, execution health, and performance trends
- Act as the single point of accountabilityfor QE tool health, stability, and adoption across portfolios
What you bring
- 15+ yearsof experience in Quality Engineering, with deep specialization in performance engineering
- Proven experience in digital performance testing(Web, Mobile Web, Native Mobile Apps)
- Strong understanding of cloudbased architecturesand performance testing in distributed systems
- Handson experience with APM and observability tools(Dynatrace, New Relic)
- Working knowledge of at least one programming/scripting language (Java, JavaScript, Python, C#, etc.)
- Experience with logging platforms(ELK, Splunk, Sumo Logic)
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical leader, influencer, and mentor
We're always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer:
- Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
- Performance incentives, Continuing Education Programs
- Other perks to support your well-being
- Career growth opportunities and product discounts
Our typical hiring range is between $90,000.00 to $131,000.00 per annum. Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, job-related knowledge, skills and competencies, market location, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements. We're committed to attracting top talent. For critical roles, the compensation offering will be reviewed to ensure alignment with market rate and conditions and the unique value you bring to the role. #LI-AG2
We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.
About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited ("CTC") is one of Canada's most admired and trusted companies.With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supporte