RQ11656 - Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Senior

Job Information

Term 135 days Number of Positions 1 Work Experience 7-10 Years City Toronto State/Province Ontario M4C Job Description

Responsibilities:

Sr Quality Assurance(QA) Analyst, is responsible for overseeing and managing the quality assurance (QA) processes for both manual and automated testing efforts. This role involves leading a team of QA engineers, developing and implementing testing strategies, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in both manual and automated testing, robust leadership skills, and a deep understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC) and QA methodologies.

As a Sr QA Lead you will

Collaborate with product managers, product owners, and technical team to develop test strategies and test plans

Plans and organizes testing efforts for large systems in Graphical User Interface (GUI) and non-Graphical User Interface (GUI) environments, including the execution of systems integration tests, specialized tests, and user acceptance testing.

Develop test plans, test scripts and test cases and execute these against the various components.

Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for functional, regression, and integration testing

Use automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Appium, Playwright or similar to create robust and reusable test scripts.

Provides advice on the testing strategy, test plans, the selection of testing tools, and the identification of resources required for testing.

Assist with planning and creating test data as it relates to each test phase





Executes quality assurance and testing activities for various types of testing such as integration testing, functional testing, regression testing, unit testing, load testing, performance testing and accessibility testing

Plans and organizes testing efforts in both front-end and back-end application components/environments

Communicate test results regularly through reports that summarize test completion and defects found

Help with the implementation of the project technical testing strategy and methodology. This includes testing of integration points and interfaces and non-functional requirements (e.g. fail-over, component response times, data integrity, security)

Evaluate test results against acceptance criteria to determine successful completion of the sprint increment

Defines and measures acceptance criteria for test cases

Record all defects/issues in the Cluster’s defect reporting tool (Jira).

Participate in elicitation and business requirement workshop sessions, sprint reviews and/or walkthrough meetings

Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the agile / iterative solution development lifecycle

Conducts post-release / post-implementation testing

Supports clients with user acceptance testing (UAT) activities

Creates traceability matrix to ensure testing outcomes align with business requirements





Coordinate and facilitate regular defect review meetings with Business Analysts and Business stakeholders

Provide testing and defect status updates in daily scrum stand-ups, team meetings as required

Provide weekly report confirming status of assigned tasks

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 design, development, artefacts, and source code, including all relevant and complete documents must be transferred to the ministry in the designated repositories provided

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

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements Evaluation Criteria:

Testing Skills/Experience – 50%

10+ years of experience in process, planning, organizing and implementing testing efforts

Demonstrated experience in a) Reviewing API specs b) Test positive, negative and error cases plus status codes c) Validate schemas and payloads d)Test authentication and authorization, d) Test integration and data integrity

Working knowledge of the testing process and the Software development life cycle (SDLC), including Agile & DevOps

Experience with creating, reviewing, and executing test strategy, test plans and test cases

Executes quality assurance and testing activities for various types of testing such as integration testing, functional testing, regression testing, unit testing, load testing, performance testing and

📌 Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Senior (Toronto)
🏢 Maarut
📍 Toronto