Business Systems - Test Automation Lead

Who We Are:

Price Industries Limited, North America’s leading manufacturer and distributor of air distribution products (www.priceindustries.com). The founding principles of Price have never changed – business integrity, first-class service, innovation and a commitment to people. Our dependable quality, reliable delivery, and knowledgeable follow-up service have made Price a market leader in supplying air distribution, critical controls, and noise control products.

After more than 60 years, Price remains a privately held family company with a deep heritage and commitment to innovation and service. Our long-standing vision, values, and the Price way of doing business are the cornerstones of our success.

We are a dynamic, progressive and innovative organization looking for new talent in our growing Winnipeg manufacturing facility. If you thrive on new challenges, and working in a friendly, team-driven environment, you should consider the following opportunity.

What You Can Expect:

• Health and Dental - Employees and their families enjoy paid benefits covering an extensive list of medical and dental expenses and services.

• Manulife Virtual Pharmacy - Access pharmacy services anytime, anywhere through the Manulife app, with eligible prescriptions delivered directly to your home.

• Manulife Mental Health and Counselling Services - Access confidential mental health and wellness support through the Manulife app, with convenient options to book counselling, consultations, and guided programs all in one place.

• Life and Disability - You will be provided with life insurance in a multiple of your salary with an option to purchase additional coverage.

• Pension Matching Program - Invest in your future with each pay cheque through our Defined Contribution Pension Plan and we will match your contribution (up to 3% of your salary).

• Wellness Reimbursement Program - Employees are eligible for a fitness centre or club membership reimbursement of up to $300 per year, this includes Fitness related App’s.

• Personal and Professional Development - We are committed to helping you reach your potential through training and education.

• Community Involvement - Generously supporting health, charities, youth, and education opportunities is our passion, and you’re invited to be a part of that.

• Our convenient Price Café offers free Tea and Coffee.

Test Automation Lead

Enterprise Systems • IFS ERP • Multi-site Manufacturing

ROLE PURPOSE
Build and lead a pragmatic test automation and performance assurance program that improves the reliability of enterprise systems while reducing the cost and effort of repetitive testing. The initial focus is IFS ERP and its integrations across a multi-site manufacturing organization.

The opportunity

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can turn business risk into a technically sound, executable test strategy. You will define the plan, establish priorities and standards, coordinate technical and business contributors, track delivery, and communicate results in a way that earns confidence and business buy-in.

Success requires more than writing automated scripts. The role must determine what should be automated, what should remain manual, how system capacity should be validated, and where investment will provide the greatest reduction in risk and recurring test effort.

What you’ll lead

• Develop and maintain a multi-year test automation roadmap aligned with enterprise priorities, implementation schedules, operational risk, and available capacity.
• Create a performance and load testing strategy that validates expected demand, peak usage, scalability, stability, and system limits across IFS ERP, integrations, APIs, and supporting services.
• Build a risk-based automation portfolio, beginning with high-value repetitive test plans such as smoke and regression testing.
• Define measurable success criteria, baselines, thresholds, execution schedules, reporting standards, and decision points.
• Own the backlog and delivery plan for test automation and performance testing, including dependencies, risks, milestones, and outcomes.
• Guide the design of reusable test data, test environments, automated suites, and supporting infrastructure.
• Integrate appropriate automated testing into software delivery pipelines while preserving practical manual validation where it adds value.
• Lead investigation of performance findings with developers, architects, infrastructure specialists, vendors, and system owners, distinguishing symptoms from root causes.
• Create clear, decision-oriented reporting that explains risk, evidence, recommendations, tradeoffs, and progress to both technical and business audiences.
• Build capability across QA and delivery teams through coaching, standards, templates, reviews, and practical knowledge transfer.

How you’ll work

• Partner with process owners and business subject matter experts to identify critical workflows, realistic volumes, peak conditions, acceptable outcomes, and operational consequences of failure.
• Work with technical teams to understand architecture, APIs, integrations, telemetry, data requirements, environment constraints, and deployment practices.
• Facilitate prioritization when business value, technical feasibility, delivery capacity, and risk compete.
• Demonstrate progress through working test assets, transparent plans, concise status reporting, and evidence-based recommendations.
• Drive execution through influence and coordination, including work completed by people who may not report directly to the role.
• Keep the approach pragmatic: automate where it creates repeatable value, avoid automation for its own sake, and adjust the plan as systems and business needs evolve.

What we need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline. An equivalent combination of post-secondary education, professional certifications, and directly related experience may be considered.
• Progressive experience in software quality engineering, test automation, performance engineering, or a closely related discipline, including experience leading a program or significant workstream.
• Demonstrated ability to create a strategy, translate it into an executable plan, track delivery, and communicate outcomes to varied stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining automated tests using modern tools and frameworks for user interfaces, APIs, integrations, and data validation.
• Experience planning and executing performance, load, stress, spike, scalability, and endurance testing, including defining workloads and interpreting results.
• Strong understanding of regression testing, risk-based test design, test data management, defect management, and traceability.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, source control, observability, logs, metrics, and the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to investigate results using SQL, API tooling, telemetry, and collaboration with technical specialists.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical findings, uncertainty, and tradeoffs in business terms.
• Sound judgment, self-direction, organization, and persistence in a cross-functional environment.

Valuable experience

• Enterprise ERP testing, particularly IFS Cloud or another complex manufacturing ERP platform.
• Multi-site manufacturing processes such as order management, configure-to-order, planning, procurement, production, warehousing, shipping, and finance.
• Cloud-based load testing and automated delivery platforms, including tools such as Azure Load Testing, JMeter, Playwright, Selenium, k6, or equivalent technologies.
• Testing distributed systems where reliability depends on interactions among ERP, middleware, APIs, external applications, and data services.
• Working with software vendors or managed service providers on system sizing, tuning, defect resolution, and service performance.
• Coaching testers or developers and establishing repeatable quality engineering practices.

Should this excellent opportunity interest you, please submit your resume, including salary expectations.

We appreciate the interest shown by all applicants, however only those being considered for an interview will be contacted.

We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.