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Cardata is where driven people make an outsized impact. We’re a small but mighty team transforming how businesses manage vehicle reimbursement — replacing outdated programs with smart, automated solutions.
Our vision is bold: to provide the most comprehensive, intelligent, and automated software and services for creating ideal vehicle programs. And we’re building toward that vision every single day.
Join us and you’ll find challenge, growth, and the chance to deliver real impact — helping hundreds of companies and thousands of drivers across North America focus on the work that matters most to them.
We’re searching for a QA Architect to own quality strategy, automation, and release standards across Engineering. Accuracy matters: our platform calculates reimbursement rates, generates payment notices, and pays drivers through Direct Pay. When something goes wrong, customers, drivers, and our Finance team feel the impact.
Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you’ll set the quality bar, make quality visible across the organization, and partner with Product and Engineering to build it into every stage of development. You’ll also have the authority to hold a release that doesn’t meet agreed standards.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll build on existing quality practices, bring structure as we scale, and take ownership from strategy through execution. We’re particularly interested in candidates with experience in a SaaS, scale-up, or startup environment.
What You’ll Do
Own the quality strategy across our web applications, APIs, and data, with particular focus on reimbursement and payment flows. The Portal will be your initial priority, with the mobile app following as quality practices mature.
Assess existing products and features, identify quality gaps, and prioritize test plans based on risk and business impact.
Define quality standards, release criteria, and testing expectations as part of the definition of done. Hold releases that don’t meet the bar and work with Product and Engineering leadership on go/no-go decisions.
Guide the choice of testing approaches, tools, and frameworks within the team’s platform and budget, balancing quality, speed, and practical trade-offs.
Build, scale, and maintain automation frameworks and shared testing tools across teams, with reliable coverage of critical flows.
Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD, including required tests, branch protections, and coverage thresholds. Improve pipeline health and reduce flaky tests.
Partner with DevOps/Platform to maintain stable, fast test environments that reflect production.
Define and review a focused set of quality metrics and dashboards, including escaped defects, release failures, hotfixes, and rework. Use the results to guide decisions and drive improvement.
Work with Engineering, Product, and Design to build testability into requirements and design. Coach engineers to test their own work and meet quality standards independently.
Partner with Product on stakeholder testing and release readiness, and turn incident reviews and recurring quality gaps into lasting changes.
Apply AI tools to improve testing efficiency and coverage, help the team strengthen its AI-assisted QA practices, and adapt the testing strategy as AI-assisted development evolves.
In your first 30 days, you’ll establish a quality baseline, starting with money flows, and agree on measures and targets with the VP of Engineering. Within three months, you’ll have a release bar in use. Within six months, you’ll be working toward agreed quality targets, with measurable improvement in money flows and teams taking greater ownership of testing.
What You Bring
Experience in a SaaS, scale-up, startup, or other scaling product environment is strongly preferred.
7+ years in software quality, including senior ownership of quality strategy or architecture. Experience as a QA Architect, Staff SDET, Principal QA Engineer, or in a similar role is…