Quality Assurance (QA) + Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

About Prime Quadrant

Prime Quadrant serves over 240 affluent families, with approximately CAD 22 billion in Assets under Consultation*. Our mission is to empower families for the future and assist them across the full range of their financial, social, and human capital needs.

Our culture is the Prime Quadrant PATH – we are Purposeful, Authentic, Tenacious, and Humble. We love the work we are privileged to do, the wonderful group of families we are fortunate to serve, and the exceptional team we have assembled. We have been on a growth trajectory for several years. Prime Quadrant is proud to be designated one of the Best Workplaces™ in Canada.

To learn more about Prime Quadrant, please visit: https://www.primequadrant.com

The Opportunity

We are seeking a QA + SRE Hybrid Engineer to help ensure our internal platforms and client-facing tools are stable, consistent, performant, and reliable. This individual will work closely with developers, product managers, and designers to define testing strategies, write automated and manual tests, and proactively identify issues before they reach production - while also contributing to reliability engineering efforts like monitoring, alerting, and incident prevention.

This is an ideal role for someone who takes pride in finding edge cases, improving test coverage, and supporting application uptime and resilience with every release.

Primary Responsibilities

• Create and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts for web-based applications
• Identify and log defects in coordination with product and development teams
• Define and build automated regression test suites using tools like Playwright or Cypress
• Collaborate on defining acceptance criteria and participate in agile sprint planning
• Ensure comprehensive testing across devices, browsers, and user scenarios
• Monitor production systems, define SLOs/SLIs, and proactively identify reliability issues
• Support incident response and root cause analysis alongside DevOps
• Assist in setting up test environments and CI/CD quality gates
• Document bugs, edge cases, and known issues for both technical and non-technical audiences Promote a quality- and reliability-first culture within the team

Key Attributes

• Strong attention to detail and a passion for spotting inconsistencies
• Clear communicator and effective collaborator in cross-functional teams
• Comfortable balancing speed with accuracy
• Motivated to improve QA and reliability processes
• Analytical mindset and operational awareness for system health and uptime
• Strong understanding of how users interact with software and where things break

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in quality assurance or software testing
• Experience designing and maintaining automated tests across React/TypeScript frontends, Python backends, and CI/CD pipelines
• Skilled in QA analysis, including test planning, exploratory testing, defect triage, and regression validation
• Familiarity with modern testing frameworks like Playwright, Detox, and pytest
• Understanding of REST APIs and ability to validate backend integrations
• Familiarity with system observability, SLOs/SLIs, and monitoring tools like Datadog, New Relic, or Prometheus
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and Git-based workflows
• Strong written communication skills, including documentation
• Bonus: experience testing financial software

Compensation

• Competitive base salary plus up to 15% annual performance-based bonus
• Career advancement with demonstrated performance
• Health benefits via participation in the firm’s health spending account
• Participation in firm incentive programs in effect
• Up to $1,000 per year in relevant continuing education reimbursement
• Up to $600 per year towards wellness
• 3 weeks of vacation per year, and 1 volunteer day per year (in addition to 2 personal days)

This job posting is for an existing vacancy. Artificial intelligence may be used during the hiring process.

Prime Quadrant Corp is committed to fair and accessible employment practices, and we are committed to providing accommodation for persons with disabilities. If you require accommodation in order to apply for any job opportunities or require this posting in an additional format, please contact us at careers@primequadrant.com or call 647-749-4118.

If you are contacted by Prime Quadrant Corp regarding a job opportunity or testing and require accommodation in any stage of the recruitment process, please use the above contact information. We will work with all applicants to determine appropriate accommodation for individual accessibility needs.

• For many of our clients, we provide consulting services for all of their assets and use the Assets Under Consultation metric of measurement as we believe we have an impact on all assets held by clients, whether or not we directly introduced those assets to them. Assets Under Consultation is different from the more traditional Assets Under Management metric of measurement.