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Explorance

Provides people insights and AI recommendations

Vice President of Quality Assurance

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMontreal, QC, CanadaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Hands-on automation experience is required.
  • Extensive experience in software quality assurance, quality engineering, or software engineering, including significant experience in senior leadership roles, is required.
  • Demonstrated experience defining, executing, and modernizing enterprise-level quality assurance or quality engineering strategies is required.
  • Proven success leading and scaling sizable or geographically distributed technical teams and developing other leaders is required.
  • Strong technical understanding of modern software architecture, SaaS environments, software engineering, automation, and continuous integration and continuous delivery practices is required.
  • Strong understanding of quality governance, metrics, risk management, and release management is required.
  • Experience operating at the intersection of Product, Engineering, and business strategy is required.
  • Candidates must reside in Montreal or the surrounding area and be comfortable working from the office five days per week.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own Explorance's enterprise-wide quality vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap, aligned with product, technology, and business objectives.
  • Establish quality as a shared organizational responsibility across Product, Engineering, and Technology.
  • Serve as the senior advocate for software quality, bringing a quality and risk perspective to executive-level technology and product decisions.
  • Establish clear quality standards, governance, accountability, and measurable outcomes across the software development lifecycle.
  • Anticipate future quality needs as products, technology, customer base, and organization evolve.
  • Translate business and product priorities into a scalable quality strategy and operating model.
  • Set the strategic direction for quality engineering, test automation, and modern testing practices across the organization.
  • Drive the evolution toward scalable, automation-first quality practices while balancing automated and manual testing appropriately.
  • Ensure automation architecture, frameworks, tools, and practices can support increasingly complex and scalable SaaS environments.
  • Promote earlier integration of quality into architecture, design, development, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and release processes.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and approaches that can improve quality, productivity, test coverage, and speed to market.
  • Establish meaningful quality key performance indicators and executive-level reporting to provide visibility into product quality, operational performance, and risk.
  • Use data and trends to identify systemic quality issues and drive organization-wide improvements.
  • Establish governance around release quality, testing readiness, defect management, and quality risk.
  • Ensure quality practices support relevant security, compliance, reliability, and customer commitments.
  • Build, lead, and evolve a high-performing global quality assurance organization with the capabilities required to support company growth.
  • Assess organizational capabilities and identify opportunities to strengthen skills, processes, structure, and technology.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, high performance, and continuous improvement.
  • Ensure quality assurance resources and investments are aligned with business priorities, product roadmaps, and organizational needs.
  • Act as a strategic partner to senior leaders across Engineering, Product, CloudOps, Security, and the broader organization.
  • Influence architectural and technology decisions by ensuring quality, testability, reliability, and scalability are considered from the outset.
  • Drive alignment across functions on quality priorities, expectations, and accountability.
  • Communicate quality performance, risks, priorities, and investment needs clearly to executive stakeholders.

About the Company

Explorance

Provides people insights and AI recommendations

Explorance provides People Insight Solutions to help organizations and institutions understand how people experience work and grow in their roles. It connects moments that matter—covering needs, expectations, skills, knowledge, and competency—into a unified view that informs talent decisions. The product relies on measurement expertise and AI-enabled recommendations to move from insight to action, supporting faster, more informed decisions. Unlike general analytics vendors, Explorance focuses on the convergence of people experiences and talent effectiveness, serving 25% of the Fortune 100 and top higher education institutions through a global footprint and trusted culture. The company’s goal is to accelerate the insight-to-action cycle, enabling organizational agility and individual success.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Late Stage VC
Total funding
$25M
Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Founded
2003

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