We are 3PILLAR GLOBAL
We build breakthrough software products that power digital businesses. We are an innovative product development partner whose solutions drive rapid revenue, market share, and customer growth for industry leaders in Software and SaaS, Media and Publishing, Information Services, and Retail.
Our key differentiator is our Product Mindset. Our development teams focus on building for outcomes and all of our team members around the globe are trained on the Product Mindset’s core values – Minimize Time to Value, Solve For Need, and Excel at Change. Our teams apply this mindset to build digital products that are customer-facing and revenue-generating. Our business-minded approach to agile development ensures that we align to client goals from the earliest conceptual stages through market launch and beyond.
Key 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.
Required Qualifications
Required Qualifications Experience 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 ex