Functional Quality Assurance (QA) Tester

Role: Functional Quality Assurance (QA) Tester

Location: Mississauga, ON

Hybrid role

Rate: CAD 50/hr on C2C + HST

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Functional QA Tester to support the testing of cloud-based applications, integrations, and enhancements. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on manual testing experience, exposure to AWS technologies, API and database testing skills, and an interest in using automation and AI to improve testing efficiency and coverage.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and exploratory test cases.
• Review requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to identify test scenarios, edge cases, and potential gaps.
• Document, track, retest, and validate defects through resolution.
• Test applications and integrations within an AWS environment, including Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, and CloudWatch.
• Perform API testing to validate requests, responses, payloads, integrations, and error scenarios.
• Perform database testing and SQL queries to validate data accuracy and troubleshoot issues.
• Use logs and application data to investigate issues and support root-cause analysis.
• Create and maintain test cases using Zephyr Essentials and manage defects and work items in Jira.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive and regression test cases.
• Work with automation tools and frameworks to develop or maintain automated tests.
• Use and experiment with AI tools to improve test-case creation, test coverage, automation, troubleshooting, and overall QA efficiency.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in functional/manual software testing.
• Experience testing cloud-based applications, preferably within AWS.
• Experience with API testing, database testing, and SQL.
• Experience with Jira, Zephyr Essentials, and Confluence.
• Experience with or a strong understanding of test automation.
• Comfortable using and experimenting with AI tools and applying AI to testing and automation activities.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in an Agile software delivery environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Experience

• Testing serverless or event-driven AWS applications.
• Working with Lambda, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch, and S3.
• API testing tools such as Postman.
• Automating functional, regression, or API testing.
• Using AI-assisted tools to generate test scenarios, support automation, analyze results, or improve QA processes.