Position: Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Location: Toronto, ON

Job ID#: RQ11402

Duration: 7 Months

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Systems Testing / QA Specialist to support enterprise application testing initiatives. The successful candidate will play a key role in planning, developing, executing, and managing testing activities across multiple systems and environments to ensure high-quality software delivery.

This position requires strong experience in test planning, automated testing, defect management, performance testing, and collaboration with cross-functional teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide guidance on testing strategies, test plans, testing tools, and resource requirements.

- Plan and organize testing efforts for large-scale systems in both GUI and non-GUI environments.

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

- Execute functional, integration, system, regression, and user acceptance testing activities.

- Validate system functionality and expected behavior under various operating conditions.

- Identify, document, prioritize, and track software defects using testing and defect management tools.

- Collaborate with development teams to reproduce, troubleshoot, and resolve defects.

- Develop and maintain automated test scripts using industry-standard automation tools.

- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines where applicable.

- Conduct performance, stress, and load testing to assess scalability and system reliability.





- Ensure compliance with accessibility regulations and applicable quality standards.

- Collaborate closely with business analysts, project managers, developers, and stakeholders.

- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.

- Maintain detailed testing documentation, quality metrics, and test coverage reports.

- Contribute to user documentation and release-related materials.

- Ensure testing processes comply with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

Required Qualifications

General Skills

- Experience planning, organizing, and implementing testing efforts.

- Knowledge of structured software development, implementation, and maintenance methodologies.

- Experience using automated testing tools and version control systems.

- Experience executing functional, non-functional, and system integration testing.

- Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.

- Strong knowledge of quality assurance principles, practices, processes, and methodologies.

- Experience creating testing strategies, test plans, test cases, and test data.

- Experience with quality assurance across multiple testing types including integration, performance, load, and regression testing.





- Solid understanding of all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

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

- Strong verbal and written communication skills.

- Ability to work effectively within a team environment and meet deadlines.

- Knowledge of system, integration, regression, and acceptance testing methodologies.

- Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall delivery methodologies.

- Ability to create clear, comprehensive, and effective test cases.

- Experience with defect and test management platforms such as ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla, TestRail, Zephyr, or similar.

- Familiarity with Selenium, Cypress, Postman, or similar testing tools.

- Experience using SQL queries for backend validation and data verification.

- Understanding of software development and testing life cycles.

- Experience supporting security testing initiatives.

- Experience creating and managing test data strategies and environments.

- Experience validating data integrity, consistency, migration, and transformation processes.

- Experience developing and executing performance testing solutions using tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner.

- Experience with at least one programming language.

- Experience with information retrieval tools and packages.

- Knowledge of testing methodologies within object-oriented environments.

- Knowledge of Information Management principles and practices.

- Understanding of accessibility standards and regulations.

📌 Software Quality Assurance Analyst (Toronto)
🏢 Symbiotic Group
📍 Toronto