Title:  Senior Manager

Requisition ID: 248258

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Job Purpose

We’re looking for a Senior Manager of API & Services Quality Engineering to lead and evolve quality practices across our API and microservices platforms. This is a hands on technical leadership role for someone who enjoys building automation frameworks, understands modern service architectures, and knows how to lead and grow engineering teams. 

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Lead and manage QE teams supporting APIs and distributed services
• Design and evolve API test automation frameworks  
• Stay hands on with automation, CI/CD, and service level testing
• Partner closely with engineering and platform teams to embed quality early
• Drive automation first, reliability and resiliency focused QE practices
• Support AI adoption in QE to improve test efficiency and quality insights
• Coach, mentor, and conduct performance assessments for team members

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have:

• 10+ years in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, or Software Engineering
• 5+ years in a technical people management role
• Strong hands-on experience with API automation (Java, RestAssured, Cucumber/TestNG preferred)
• Strong understanding of microservices test strategy: contract testing, component/integration vs E2E balance, observability-driven QA.
• Experience leading QE organizations (leads + SDETs), setting standards, coaching, and performance assessments.
• Proven delivery of automation-first quality, reliability/resiliency practices, and release gating.
• Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards to track QA metrics, including test execution progress, defect trends, automation coverage, and release readiness indicators.
• Design intuitive visualizations that highlight risk areas, bottlenecks, test coverage gaps, and product quality trends.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern SDLC practices
• Ability to lead teams and influence quality outcomes at scale
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems
• Contract or service level  testing exposure
• Cloud platform experience
• Pragmatic AI adoption in QE: test generation/maintenance, intelligent selection, defect analytics—without hype.
• Nice-to-haves: Web automation awareness (Playwright) and Mobile (Appium + Python) for unified strategy oversight.
• Nice-to-haves: Cloud & platform knowledge (Azure/AWS), GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins, Pact/WireMock, K6/Gatling/Locust.
• Nice-to-haves: Experience in regulated/enterprise environments, accessibility awareness.

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.  
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance. 
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Dynamic Ecosystem - Free tea & coffee, universal washrooms, and lots of space for team collaboration.
• Community Engagement - No matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs.

Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto 

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.