Overview

The QA Specialist is responsible for planning, designing, and executing testing strategies for large-scale, complex business systems. This role ensures system quality through manual and automated testing, data validation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams in Agile and traditional environments.

Key Responsibilities

Test Strategy & Planning

- Define and advise on testing strategies, methodologies, tools, and resource requirements.

- Develop comprehensive test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test data

- Plan and coordinate testing efforts across GUI and non-GUI environments

- Support System Integration Testing (SIT), UAT, regression, and specialized testing

Test Execution & Defect Management

- Execute functional, integration, system, regression, and UAT testing

- Validate system behavior under various conditions

- Identify, log, track, and manage defects using:

- ALM / HP QC

- JIRA

- Bugzilla

- Azure DevOps

- Work closely with developers to troubleshoot and resolve issues

Automation & Performance Testing

- Develop and maintain automation scripts using:

- Selenium / Cypress

- Micro Focus / OpenText UFT

- TestComplete / Postman

- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines

- Perform performance, load, and stress testing using tools like:

- JMeter

- LoadRunner

Data & Backend Testing

- Validate data integrity, accuracy, and consistency across systems

- Perform data migration, transformation, and reconciliation testing

- Write queries for backend validation (Oracle or similar DBs)

- Manage test data strategies ensuring privacy and realistic datasets

Accessibility & Compliance

- Conduct accessibility testing aligned with:

- AODA

- WCAG 2.0 / 2.1 AA standards

- Use tools such as

- WAVE

- JAWS

- NVDA

- Compliance Sheriff

Collaboration & Agile Delivery

- Collaborate with Developers, BAs, PMs, and QA Leads

- Participate in Agile ceremonies

- Sprint Planning

- Stand-ups

- Retrospectives





- Provide inputs for release notes and user documentation

Documentation & Reporting

- Maintain detailed records of:

- Test execution results

- Test coverage

- Quality metrics

- Ensure compliance with industry standards and SDLC processes

Requirements

Mandatory Requirements (Must Have)

- Strong experience in manual testing for large, complex, business-critical systems

- Expertise in

- Test planning, test case creation, and execution

- Test strategy development for dynamic, rule-based systems

- Hands-on experience with:

- Data reconciliation & validation testing

- 3-tier web-based applications

- Proven experience in Accessibility testing (AODA / WCAG 2.0 AA)

- Experience with tools

- JIRA, Bugzilla, Azure DevOps

- HP/Microfocus suite

- Experience testing

- Custom-built and COTS applications (e.g., IBM J-Rules Engine)

Core Skill Requirements

QA Skills

- Testing large-scale, complex enterprise systems

- Creating test strategies, plans, cases, and expected results

- Data analysis, cleansing, conversion, and reconciliation

- Accessibility testing (WCAG / AODA)

- Managing QA activities under tight timelines

Technical Skills

- Web-based 3-tier architecture testing

- Strong knowledge of

- Testing tools & defect tracking systems

- Oracle database tools

- Workflow and rule-based systems

- Tools

- JIRA, Bugzilla, Azure DevOps, Microfocus

- Visio, MS Office Suite

- Accessibility tools: WAVE, JAWS, NVDA

General Skills

- Solid communication & stakeholder coordination

- Analytical problem-solving & decision-making

- Ability to manage multiple teams and priorities

Public Sector Experience

- Experience working with government ministries / agencies (preferred)

Additional / Desirable Skills

- Knowledge of programming languages (Python, JavaScript, etc.)

- Experience in test automation scripting

- Experience with COTS applications testing

- Knowledge of object-oriented testing environments

- Understanding of Information Management principles

📌 System Testing/QA Specialist Intermediate (Toronto)
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📍 Toronto