# Lead QA Test Engineer

As a Lead QA Test Engineer, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of Nasdaq's North American equities market systems - some of the most complex and high-stakes trading platforms in the world. You'll thrive in this position if you're detail-oriented, technically sharp, and passionate about building systems that work flawlessly under pressure in a fast-paced, high-impact environment. Key Responsibilities Design, execute, and maintain comprehensive test plans and scripts to validate the quality and performance of core trading and market data systems. Collaborate with development and project management teams to identify, document, and drive resolution of software defects across the full release cycle. Lead test planning across all applicable phases, ensuring complete documentation and a clear resolution path for any issues identified. Develop and maintain internal testing tools and frameworks that improve efficiency and quality across the broader engineering team. Define and continuously improve release and quality assurance procedures to support consistent, scalable software delivery. Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Sci

- **Id**: 1164435
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nasdaq-lead-qa-test-engineer>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Toronto, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-23T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T00:41:44Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 51
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3259
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Stock Exchanges & Market Infrastructure, RegTech, AML & Compliance, Financial Data & Market Intelligence

## Company

- **Id**: 2948
- **Name**: Nasdaq
- **Domain**: nasdaq.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nasdaq>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 30
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.433
- **Repost share**: 0.033
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 42
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 106000
- **Max**: 148000
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 104019

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 51

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-24T01:42:49Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-29T05:50:46Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-02T19:04:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 35
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.787
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 50
- **Expected fill days**: 42
- **Reasons**: conf:8, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 104019
- **Is top pay**: no

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