COSMO

Children's wearable smartwatch with safety features

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Test Automation EngineeringPosted on Nov 5

Full-timeToronto, ON, CanadaCA$95k - CA$130k /yrHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

At least 9 years of progressive quality assurance experience, including at least 2 years leading a quality assurance team.
Proven success testing operating-system-level and/or hardware, mobile, cloud, and artificial intelligence or machine-learning solutions in a consumer or Internet of Things environment.
Experience with application programming interface testing using REST, gRPC, or GraphQL; message queues; microservices; and data pipelines.
Demonstrated use of artificial intelligence tools in a quality assurance or development workflow, such as generating test data, fuzzing inputs, writing code, predicting flaky tests, or performing root-cause analyses.
Strong understanding of Agile, Waterfall, and DevSecOps practices, and ability to drive sprint ceremonies and quality gates.
Bachelor's degree in Electronics or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent proven experience.
Eligible to work in Canada.
Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

Define and promote a holistic quality assurance vision that combines manual, automated, and AI-augmented testing.
Establish quality key performance indicators, including defect escape rate and test coverage, and continuously improve against them.
Mentor and scale a distributed quality assurance team; run regular quality guilds, workshops, and artificial intelligence upskilling sessions.
Review specifications and user stories and derive risk-based, AI-generated test scenarios.
Build and maintain automated user interface, application programming interface, integration, performance, and security test suites using Playwright, Cypress, Appium, or Robot Framework.
Conduct exploratory, usability, and compliance testing across multiple devices, operating system versions, browsers, and wearable hardware product variants.
Pilot and integrate generative artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to accelerate test-case authoring, data fabrication, and defect triage.
Use machine-learning-based anomaly detection in observability pipelines, including Datadog, New Relic, or Grafana, to trigger self-healing tests.
Evaluate open-source and commercial artificial intelligence test-operations solutions, build proofs of concept, and drive adoption.
Partner with DevOps to enhance continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Bitrise for parallelized, containerized test execution.
Implement security and privacy test automation.
Work with Product, Engineering, Design, Customer Support, and Release teams to align on quality goals, release readiness, and user feedback loops.
Provide data-driven insights to influence roadmap prioritization and artificial intelligence feature rollouts.

Desired Qualifications

Certifications such as ISTQB Advanced Test Manager, AWS DevOps Engineer, GCP Cloud Developer, or similar.

Lead QA Engineer

COSMO · Toronto, Canada (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-04

Salary: CAD 95,000–130,000

Workplace: hybrid

Department: Engineering

Description

Our Story:

At COSMO, we inspire kids through innovative technology and a supportive community. Our family-centric products, such as the award-winning JrTrack Kids Smartwatch, enhance children's independence and confidence. This all-in-one device functions as a phone, GPS tracker, and music player, managed via the Mission Control Parent App, which allows parents to set safety alerts and manage contacts. Recognized as a top kids' wearable by PCMag and others, Cosmo is on the rise.

About the Role

Reports To: QA Engineering Manager

Department: Engineering

Role Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled and forward-thinking Lead QA Engineer to guide our global QA efforts while introducing and embedding AI-based tools and intelligent automation across our development lifecycle.

As Lead QA Engineer, you will own the overall quality strategy for our hardware, firmware, mobile apps, cloud services and AI‑powered features. You’ll combine hands-on testing (manual and automated) with strategic adoption of the latest tools in generative AI, test automation, and DevSecOps to ship reliable, delightful experiences to families around the world.

What You'll Do

Quality Strategy & Leadership

Define and evangelize a holistic QA vision that blends manual, automated and AI‑augmented testing.
Establish quality KPIs (defect escape rate, test coverage) and continuously improve against them.
Mentor and scale a distributed QA team; run regular quality guilds, workshops and AI upskilling sessions.

Test Planning & Execution

Review specifications and user stories; derive risk‑based, AI‑generated test scenarios.
Build and maintain automated test suites (UI, API, integration, performance, security) using modern frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Robot Framework).
Conduct exploratory, usability and compliance testing across multiple devices, OS versions, browsers and wearable hardware SKUs.

AI & Tooling Innovation

Pilot and integrate GenAI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate test‑case authoring, data fabrication and defect triage.
Leverage ML‑based anomaly detection in observability pipelines (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana) to trigger self‑healing tests.
Evaluate open‑source and commercial AI test‑ops solutions; build PoCs and drive adoption.

Infrastructure & DevSecOps

Partner with DevOps to enhance CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitrise) for parallelized, containerized test execution.
Implement security and privacy test automation.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

Work closely with the Product, Engineering, Design, Customer Support and Release team to align on quality goals, release readiness and user feedback loops.
Provide data‑driven insights to influence roadmap prioritization and AI feature rollouts.

Requirements

What You'll Bring

Required Experience

9+ years of progressive QA experience, including 2+ years leading QA team.
Proven success testing OS Level and/or hardware + mobile + cloud + AI/ML solutions in a consumer or IoT environment.
Experience with API testing (REST/gRPC/GraphQL), message queues, micro‑services and data pipelines.
Demonstrated use of AI tooling in a QA or development workflow—e.g., generating test data, fuzzing inputs, writing code, predicting flaky tests, or performing RCAs etc.
Strong grasp of Agile, Waterfall, and DevSecOps practices; comfortable driving sprint ceremonies and quality gates.
Bachelor’s degree in Electronics or Electrical Engineering or equivalent proven experience.
Eligible to work in Canada.

Nice to Have

Certifications: ISTQB Advanced Test Manager, AWS DevOps Engineer, GCP Cloud Developer, or similar.

Skills & Attributes

Fluent in English

Benefits

What We Offer

Competitive salary of 95,000-130,000 CAD/year and benefits including 100% employer paid supplemental medical policy
An opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast-growing company
Generous PTO
Collaborative, creative, and supportive work environment

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About the Company

COSMO

Children's wearable smartwatch with safety features

Cosmo creates family-first tech to help kids stay connected, active, and explore the real world. Its flagship Cosmo JrTrack 5 SE smartwatch is a safe first phone for children ages 6–12, offering calling, messaging, and GPS tracking controlled by parents through the Cosmo app. Parents approve contacts, monitor location, and receive safety alerts, while kids do not have access to social media or the general internet. The goal is to support childhood development with tech that builds confidence and real-world experiences, providing a practical, safer alternative to smartphones for kids.

Company size: 11-50
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland
Founded: 2004

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