Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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Ref: RQ11742 Contract – 10 Months (Extension Possible) Onsite – Toronto (222 Jarvis St, 5th Floor)
Posted Date: 2026-10-22
Location: Onsite – Toronto (222 Jarvis St, 5th Floor)
Public Sector Experience: Required – OPS / Public Sector
Contract End Date: 2027-09-28 *
Rate: $77/hour
Overview
The Government Services Integration Cluster (Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement) is seeking a Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist to lead and perform quality assurance and testing activities for a complex enterprise platform. The successful consultant will develop risk-based test strategies, drive test execution across a wide range of testing types, and provide evidence-based release-readiness assessments to ensure that enterprise platform releases meet approved requirements and quality standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and maintain test strategies, plans, schedules, test scenarios, scripts, data sets, and completion reports.
- Execute manual and automated testing across enterprise platform capabilities, features, releases, and integrations.
- Develop and maintain UI, API, service, and database test automation to improve coverage and delivery confidence.
- Coordinate test environments, accounts, tools, data, and supporting resources to ensure test readiness.
- Conduct functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, API, database, and user acceptance testing.
- Maintain requirements traceability matrices and test-coverage reporting dashboards and quality metrics.
- Lead defect triage and monitor defects through identification, prioritization, resolution, retesting, and closure.
- Validate accessibility, security, performance, reliability, and integration requirements against approved criteria.
- Report quality indicators, testing progress, outstanding defects, and release risks to stakeholders.
- Provide evidence-based recommendations on production readiness and communicate residual quality risks.
- Collaborate with product owners, analysts, architects, developers, DevOps engineers, security specialists, and ministry partners throughout the testing lifecycle.
- Demonstrated experience planning and executing end-to-end testing for complex digital solutions.
- Experience conducting functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, and user acceptance testing.
- Experience designing and implementing automated tests for user interfaces, APIs, services, and database components.
- Experience testing cloud-based applications, microservices, and system integrations across multiple platforms.
- Proven ability to coordinate business and technical teams during testing cycles and defect resolution activities.
- Prior experience working within the Ontario Public Service (OPS) or broader public sector environment.
- Experience maintaining requirements traceability, coverage reporting, and quality metrics dashboards for enterprise platforms.
- Experience assessing release readiness and delivering formal release-readiness assessments to senior stakeholders.
This is a fully onsite role, requiring five days per week at 222 Jarvis St, 5th Floor, Toronto. No security clearance is required. The consultant will work closely with cross-functional teams including product, development, DevOps, and ministry partners in a collaborative enterprise delivery environment.
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Responsibilities
Develop and maintain risk-based test strategies, plans, scenarios, automation, and reporting, and lead testing across enterprise platform features, releases, and integrations. Coordinate test readiness and defect resolution, track quality metrics and risks, and provide evidence-based release-readiness recommendations to stakeholders.
Requirements
Requires demonstrated experience planning and executing end-to-end testing for complex digital solutions, including functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, and user acceptance testing. Candidates must also have experience automating tests for UI, APIs, services, and databases; testing cloud applications, microservices, and integrations; and coordinating business and technical teams.
Skills
- Quality Assurance
- Test Strategy
- Test Planning
- Manual Testing
- Automated Testing
- Functional Testing
- Integration Testing
- System Testing
- Regression Testing
- Accessibility Testing
- Performance Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- UI Test Automation
- API Testing
- Database Testing
- Defect Triage
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Government & Public Sector
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- Enterprise Platforms
- Risk-Based Testing
- Test Strategies
- Test Plans
- Test Scenarios
- Test Scripts
- Test Data
- Test Automation
- UI Testing
- API Testing
- Service Testing
- Database Testing
- Cloud Applications
- Microservices
- System Integrations
- Accessibility
- Performance Testing
- Security Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- Requirements Traceability
- Test Coverage
- Quality Metrics
- Defect Triage
- Release Readiness
- Production Readiness
- DevOps
- Public Sector
- Ontario Public Service