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About CIBC
CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) is a leading North American financial institution offering personal, business, public sector, and institutional banking, investment banking, and wealth management services. Industry: Banking & Financial Services
The Sr. Manager, IT Quality Assurance leads the quality engineering strategy, test execution, and continuous improvement for applications and platforms within the Global Technology, Data & AI team. This role involves defining quality standards, overseeing test strategy, and managing release readiness for functional, integration, regression, web, and API efforts. You will lead and coach a team of QA professionals while partnering with engineering, product, and compliance stakeholders to ensure secure, scalable technology delivery. Key responsibilities include defect management, test data planning, and driving automation-first delivery. Required technical skills include Selenium, Playwright, Node.js, Python, JIRA, GitHub Actions, Bruno, Postman, and SQL. Candidates should possess expertise in CI/CD-enabled testing, AI-enabled testing practices, and Gherkin-based frameworks like Robot Framework to solve complex quality issues in a financial services context.
Define and deliver a quality engineering strategy aligned with business and technology priorities.
Lead, coach, and develop a team of QA professionals to foster a high-performing team culture.
Oversee end-to-end testing and release readiness for functional, integration, regression, web, and API efforts.
Drive continuous improvement in quality practices through automation, CI/CD alignment, and AI-enabled testing.
Manage defects, risks, and requirements while ensuring adherence to security, compliance, and regulatory standards.
Partner with engineering teams, product owners, and external vendors to resolve complex quality issues.
Evaluate test coverage, pipeline quality gates, and environment readiness in agile delivery settings.
What we're looking for
Bring 8–12 years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, ideally within financial services or technology.
Hold a degree or diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or a related field, or equivalent certifications and/or completion of a relevant bootcamp.
Demonstrate experience leading quality assurance and quality engineering strategies across complex enterprise environments.
Possess extensive expertise in people leadership, test strategy, test planning, defect management, and oversight of functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, web, and API testing.
Have deep experience with test automation tools such as Selenium and Playwright to build and scale enterprise-quality automation solutions.
Possess advanced knowledge of automation frameworks, object-oriented programming concepts, and modern quality engineering practices.
Have 1–2 years of hands-on experience using AI tools to build test automation and improve testing efficiency (preferred).
Possess technical knowledge of JIRA, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Node.js, Python, Bruno, Postman, Scripting, and SQL (preferred).