Test Lead

Overview To support Government of Ontario priorities under Bill 5 (Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act 2025), this role may be partially assigned to Bill 5 projects. Hybrid arrangement: candidate must work 3 days onsite (subject to OPS policy).

Responsibilities

- Collaborate with product managers/owners and technical teams to define test strategies and plans.
- Develop manual test scripts, cases, and scenarios; plan and create test data.
- Execute QA/testing activities: integration, functional, regression, unit, load, performance, accessibility.
- Organize testing across front-end and back-end environments.
- Implement technical testing strategy including integration points, interfaces, and non-functional requirements (fail-over, response times, data integrity, security).
- Record defects/issues in Azure DevOps with detailed descriptions, screenshots, and reproduction steps.
- Define and measure acceptance criteria; evaluate sprint increments.
- Participate in workshops, sprint reviews, walkthroughs, and UAT activities.
- Communicate test results through reports summarizing completion and defects.
- Conduct post-release/post-implementation testing.

General Skills
- Experience planning/implementing testing efforts.
- Knowledge of SDLC and structured methodologies.
- Familiarity with CASE tools, query tools, automated test tools, version control.
- Experience executing functional, non-functional, and integration tests.
- Support UAT activities.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational,



and communication skills.
- Team player with a track record of meeting deadlines.

Evaluation Skills

CategoryWeightKey Requirements

QA/Testing

25%

Large-scale web apps, Agile teams, Azure Cloud, SQL/PLSQL, ETL test plans, AODA, automation strategies, Azure DevOps.

Business Analysis

20%

Requirements gathering, user stories, Agile artifacts, data modeling, modernization initiatives, gap analysis.

Technical

15%

Complex test cases, SQL/PLSQL, AODA tools (JAWS, NVDA), vulnerability/performance tools, automation with Katalon, Java-based UI/backend testing.

Defect Mgmt

20%

Defect lifecycle management, root cause analysis, DevOps tools, Agile sprint defect tracking.

Communication

20%

Robust verbal/written English, collaboration, negotiation, research, teamwork under pressure.

Must Have:

Knowledge and experience in at least one programming language

Experience in the use of information retrieval packages

Knowledge and understanding of testing methods in an object-oriented environment

Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices.

Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards

Experience planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems

Experience coding automated test scripts to produce sets of automated test cases

Experience testing Commercial Off-the Shelf Applications (COTS)

📌 Test Lead | Programming, Info Retrieval, OO Testing, IM Principles, AODA, Automation, COTS | QA, BA, Technical, Defect Mgmt, Communication (Toronto)
🏢 CCI- Computer Consultants International
📍 Toronto