Job Summary: The Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist leads and executes comprehensive quality assurance and testing activities for complex enterprise platforms.

This role develops and implements risk-based test strategies and automation to ensure the reliability, performance, security, and usability of digital solutions.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, the specialist manages test environments, defects, and quality metrics to deliver evidence-based release readiness assessments and improve testing practices.

Responsibilities: Develop and maintain test strategies, plans, scenarios, scripts, and data for various testing types including functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, API, database, and user acceptance testing.

Lead and perform manual and automated testing across enterprise platform features, integrations, and releases.

Coordinate test environments, accounts, tools, and data to ensure test readiness.

Manage defect lifecycle including identification, triage, prioritization, resolution, retesting, and closure.

Maintain requirements traceability, test coverage reporting, dashboards, and quality metrics.

Assess release readiness and communicate residual risks to stakeholders.

Collaborate with product owners, developers, Dev

Ops, security specialists, and business partners to ensure quality standards.

Establish and promote repeatable testing practices and automation to improve coverage and delivery speed.

Required Skills: Proven experience in planning and executing end-to-end testing for complex digital platforms.

Solid expertise in functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance,



and acceptance testing.

Proficiency in automating UI, API, service, and database tests.

Experience testing cloud-based microservices, distributed applications, and integrations.

Ability to coordinate and communicate effectively with both business and technical teams during testing and defect management.

Desired Skills: Experience with operations (OPS) or public sector environments.

Familiarity with security and performance testing tools and methodologies.

Knowledge of Dev

Ops processes and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

Experience with accessibility standards and compliance testing.

Rated Criteria: Testing Strategy and Execution - 35 Points Test Automation and Technical Testing - 25 Points Defect Management and Quality Reporting - 25 Points Communication and Collaboration - 15 Points Total: 100 Points Deliverables: Comprehensive test strategies, plans, and scenarios covering all relevant testing types.

Automated and manual test scripts and data sets.

Defect reports, triage documentation, and resolution tracking.

Requirements traceability matrices and test coverage dashboards.

Release readiness assessments and quality metrics reports.

Recommendations for improving testing processes and automation frameworks.

Must Haves: Extensive experience in end-to-end testing of complex digital solutions.

Proven ability to automate tests across UI, API, service, and database layers.

Strong coordination skills to manage cross-functional teams during testing and defect resolution.

Expertise in cloud-based microservices and system integration testing.

Public Sector Experience: Preferred

📌 Senior Systems Test Engineer (Ontario)
🏢 vTech Solution
📍 Ontario