Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, test cases/scripts, test data, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with the project manager, product owners, business analyst, developer, and other stakeholders.

- Plan, coordinate, and execute manual testing across front-end and back-end components, including functional, integration, regression, accessibility, performance, load, non-functional, and post-implementation testing.

- Test application integrations, interfaces, and non-functional requirements, including system response times, data integrity, security, and accessibility requirements.

- Evaluate test results against business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, and maintain requirements traceability to ensure appropriate test coverage.

- Identify, document, track, validate, and manage defects in Azure DevOps, including severity, steps to reproduce, screenshots, supporting evidence, resolution status, and retesting results.

- Support and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including preparation of test scenarios/data, facilitation of testing activities, defect management, and validation of outcomes.

- Communicate testing progress, results, defects, risks, and issues through project meetings, Agile ceremonies, defect reviews, status reports, and other project communications.

- Participate in Agile delivery activities, including requirements workshops, sprint planning, stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and walkthroughs to identify testing impacts and support quality throughout the development lifecycle.

- Collaborate with cross-functional business and technical teams to clarify requirements, resolve defects, manage testing dependencies, and support successful release and production validation.





- Maintain complete testing documentation and artefacts throughout the assignment and provide ongoing knowledge transfer to ministry staff to support future testing and operations.

Knowledge Transfer Requirements:

- Knowledge transfer is expected to occur throughout the duration of the assignment through regular meetings, touchpoints, and working sessions with LRC staff

- All testing artefacts, documentation, test scripts, test cases, test results, traceability matrices, defect logs, and related project deliverables must be transferred to the ministry and stored in designated repositories

- Dedicated knowledge transfer sessions will be scheduled to ensure completeness of knowledge transfer and all documentation is shared, and allow LRC staff to ask clarification and/or follow-up questions

- Documentation must be maintained throughout the assignment to support ongoing operations and future testing activities

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

- 8+ years of demonstrated QA/testing experience, including developing technical testing strategies and test plans, creating test scenarios, test cases/scripts, test data, and execution of manual testing activities.

- Demonstrated experience performing integration, unit, regression, functional, user acceptance (UAT), accessibility (AODA), and non-functional testing.

Skill Set Requirements:

Manual Testing Skills/Experience:

- 8+ years of demonstrated QA/testing experience, including developing technical testing strategies and test plans, creating test scenarios, test cases/scripts,



test data, and execution of manual testing activities.

- Demonstrated experience performing integration, unit, regression, functional, user acceptance (UAT), accessibility (AODA), and non-functional testing.

- Working knowledge of AODA/accessibility requirements and accessibility testing practices.

- Experience testing data-driven applications, including data validation, data integrity, user roles, permissions, workflows, and business rules.

- Experience creating and maintaining requirements traceability matrices to ensure complete test coverage and alignment with business requirements.

- Experience identifying, documenting, tracking, retesting, and validating defects using Azure DevOps or similar defect management tools.

- Experience performing end-to-end testing across multiple applications, environments, interfaces, and integrated systems.

- Demonstrated ability analyzing business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to identify testing impacts, expected outcomes, and test coverage requirements.

Soft Skills:

- Experience with agile methodology

- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Robust meeting facilitation and requirements clarification skills

- Strong stakeholder management, relationship-building and collaboration skills, with demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

- Demonstrated experience communicating progress, risks, issues, and mitigation strategies to project teams, project leads, and management.

- Strong organizational and prioritization skills with demonstrated ability to independently manage competing priorities, testing activities, and deliverables in a fast-paced Agile/iterative environment.

📌 Test Lead - Senior (Toronto)
🏢 Maarut
📍 Toronto