Technical Lead QA Automation (UiPath) - Contractor

Responsibilities

 

• UiPath Expertise is Central to This Role

  • This engagement requires hands-on UiPath experience from day one. The QA Lead will lead a UiPath-based POC, build automation workflows on a UI-only enterprise platform, and coach client resources through tool adoption. See the UiPath Qualifications section for full requirements.

  • QA Consulting, Leadership & Delivery Management

    • Serve as the primary QA consultant and lead for the engagement, providing strategic guidance and hands-on direction to both 3Pillar and client teams. Reporting to the 3Pillar Product Development Manager and client leadership.

    • Advise client stakeholders on QA best practices, automation strategy, and tooling decisions — translating technical recommendations into clear, business-aligned direction.

    • Participate in backlog refinement, sprint ceremonies, release planning, and retrospectives.

    • Ensure QA work is clearly estimated, planned, and aligned with sprint deliverables.

    • Prepare QA status reports as a way to communicate test progress, test results, risks, and blockers with clarity and anticipation.

    • Complete the logging, tracking, communication and resolution of defects.

    • Maintain confidentiality, security and data privacy standards throughout all areas of responsibility.

    • Test Strategy & Quality Governance

      • Own the overall QA strategy across functional, regression, integration, and non-functional testing.

      • Define and maintain processes and best practices for test design, traceability, defect management, and environment usage.

      • Establish and monitor quality metrics that guide engineering decisions.

      • Balance coverage, speed, and maintainability while managing testing-related technical debt.

       

      • Automation Architecture & Hands-On Implementation

        • Design, build, and scale test automation frameworks for UI, API, and end-to-end testing.

        • Lead hands-on automation development demonstrating technical excellence and best practices.

        • Select appropriate tools, libraries, and patterns to ensure long-term stability and scalability.

        • Build, customize, deploy and manage the environments and test automation framework.

        • Design, implement, and maintain UiPath RPA automation workflows to support UI-driven test automation on enterprise platforms where backend API access is unavailable.

        • Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., smoke tests, regression packs, nightly executions).

        • Evaluate and introduce automation accelerators, optimizations, and emerging technologies (including AI-assisted testing).

         

        • Client & Stakeholder Collaboration

          • Act as the main QA point of contact for the client, providing strategic recommendations and technical guidance.

          • Collaborate closely with Business Analysts to translate requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria into actionable test scenarios and automation coverage.

          • Prepare and run in-person workshops, demos, discovery sessions, and planning sessions in Toronto.

          • Communicate proactively with Engineering, Product, Business, and UAT stakeholders.

          • Coaching, Mentoring & Talent Development

            • Guide and mentor QA engineers, helping them grow in automation, exploratory testing, and technical thinking.

            • Partner with Business Analysts to support knowledge transfer, ensure test coverage aligns with documented requirements, and contribute to building internal QA capability within the client team.

            • Promote knowledge sharing and continuous learning practices.

            • Build and staff the QA team by hiring new QA engineers and developing current staff.

Requirements

Required QualificationsExperience

• 8+ years of professional experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance (SDET).

• 3+ years serving as a QA Lead, Automation Lead, or Technical QA Lead for complex systems.

• Solid, proven experience creating test automation frameworks from scratch—not just enhancing existing ones. (Critical requirement)

• Hands-on experience architecting and implementing automation using:

  • RPA / UI automation: UiPath (required — see UiPath requirements below).

  • UI tools: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, WebDriverIO, etc.

  • API automation frameworks: REST Assured, Postman/Newman, SuperTest, or similar.

  • Strong programming/scripting experience in languages such as Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python.

  • Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.

  • Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile/Scrum methodologies, and QA automation practices.

  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate QA recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.

  UiPath Automated Testing Experience (Required for this Engagement)

  Given the nature of the client’s enterprise platform (Vitech V3locity), which operates exclusively through UI-driven interactions with no available backend APIs, UiPath is the primary automation tool for this engagement. The following UiPath-specific qualifications are required:

  • Hands-on experience designing and building UiPath automation workflows, including Studio, Orchestrator, and the UiPath Test Suite.

  • Proficiency with UiPath Test Manager for test case management, execution tracking, and reporting.

  • Experience automating complex desktop and web UI applications using UiPath, including handling dynamic elements, pop-ups, and multi-step navigation flows.

  • Familiarity with UiPath best practices: REFramework, exception handling, logging strategies, and maintainable selector management.

  • Experience configuring and managing UiPath Orchestrator environments: robots, queues, assets, and scheduling.

  • Ability to coach and upskill team members (including client-side resources) on UiPath tooling and automation best practices.

  • Experience leading or executing Proof of Concept (POC) engagements using UiPath, including designing and running test scenarios to evaluate UiPath as a test automation tool against defined acceptance criteria — directly relevant to the UPP automation assessment.

  • UiPath certification (e.g., UiPath Certified Professional – RPA Developer) is a strong asset.