Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist in Toronto

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test scripts for complex business-critical systems.
• Perform functional, integration, system, regression, user acceptance, and data reconciliation testing.
• Identify, document, track, and validate defects through resolution.
• Develop and maintain automated tests and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines where applicable.
• Conduct data integrity, migration, conversion, performance, load, and accessibility testing.
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, project managers, and business stakeholders to resolve issues and validate requirements.
• Maintain test documentation, test coverage reports, quality metrics, and test data strategies.
• Ensure testing activities follow established quality standards, accessibility requirements, and data privacy practices.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

• QA Skills
• Minimum 7 years of experience in software quality assurance and systems testing.
• Minimum 5 years of experience testing large, complex, business-critical applications.
• Demonstrated experience developing test strategies, test plans, test cases, test scripts, and expected results.
• Proven experience with data analysis, data cleansing, conversion, reconciliation, and validation.
• Experience coordinating multiple testing activities under tight deadlines and competing priorities.
• Demonstrated experience performing accessibility testing against WCAG 2.0 AA standards.
• Technical Skills
• Minimum 5 years of experience testing web-based, multi-tier applications and business workflow solutions.
• Hands-on experience with testing and defect management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Bugzilla, or Micro Focus.
• Experience with Oracle databases, SQL queries, and backend data validation.
• Demonstrated experience testing custom-developed and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications.
• Experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium, UFT, or Cypress; API testing tools such as Postman; and performance testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner, where applicable.
• Experience with accessibility testing tools such as WAVE, JAWS, or NVDA.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and test documentation tools.
• General Skills
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate testing across multiple business and technical teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including defect reporting and stakeholder presentations.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum and Waterfall development environments.
• Large-Scale Organizational Experience
• Experience testing complex applications involving multiple systems, business rules, databases, and stakeholder groups.