Senior Automation Quality Assurance Test Lead to develop test strategies and roadmaps for a D365 integration program. -064

Our valued client is seeking a Senior Automation Quality Assurance Test Lead to develop test strategies and roadmaps for a D365 integration program.

An initial 1-year contract. Hybrid work model in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto.

About the Role

QA Test Lead capable of driving the overall test strategy for the Finance team. You will implement our testing strategy across functional, integration, contract, and end‑to‑end (API) levels; and partner closely with developers, product owners, and platform teams. You have hands on experience testing MS Dynamics 365 ERP and CRM, specifically integrated with Azure services. You are familiar with testing Azure Functions and SQL Server-backed services, and you bring structure, initiative, and a bias for shipping reliable software at speed.

What You’ll Do

• Execute the testing strategy for D365 integration with Azure services aligned to the project QA strategy
• Build, maintain and execute functional test cases, unit tests, integration tests, contract tests, end-to-end API tests.
• Embed quality gates in CI/CD, PR validation, parallelized test suites, coverage enforcement, flaky test detection/quarantine, test result publishing, and automated environment provisioning/teardown.
• Database‑focused validation, schema migrations, indexing impacts, and data integrity constraints within integration/e2e tests.
• Observability in tests leveraging logs/metrics/traces for quicker triage; create actionable failure diagnostics and test artefacts.
• Defect management & prevention, fast, reproducible bug reports with root‑cause insights; proactively propose quality improvements to code, data contracts, and pipelines.
• Collaborate in Scrum ceremonies, refine acceptance criteria, pair with developers, and coach the team on testability and quality‑by‑design.
• Maintain concise guidelines for running tests locally, in CI, and for contributing new test cases; promote consistent patterns, utilities, and reusable test components.

What You Bring

• 3+ years in QA functional and automation testing or software development with a focus on integrated systems.
• Minimum security clearance of Reliability.
• Proven experience testing ERP and CRM connected to both Azure services and SQL Server data layers.
• Hands‑on building functional, integration, contract, and API end‑to‑end automation with production‑grade reliability.
• Knowledge of Postman, Playwright, CI/CD, preferably with Azure DevOps, integrating tests and quality gates into PR workflows and release pipelines.
• Comfortable working in Scrum, collaborating across disciplines, and shipping iteratively.
• Clear, concise documentation and an organized approach; able to start producing immediately with minimal ramp‑up.