Senior Test Lead

Position: Senior Test Lead

Duration: 5 Months assignment (contract)
Client Location: Toronto (Onsite/Hybrid: 7.25 hours/day between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday)
Engagement Model: Professional Services Engagement – B2B (Incorporated Entities Only)

Note on Assignment Type

This position is provisionally Onsite/Hybrid, requiring 7.25 hours per calendar day between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday (excluding breaks). Conditions may change based on organizational requirements and at the discretion of the Hiring Manager.

About the Engagement

Akkodis is seeking an experienced Senior Test Lead to support quality assurance and testing activities for enterprise applications within a large-scale public sector environment.

The successful consultant will lead testing initiatives throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that business requirements, functional specifications, integrations, and non-functional requirements are validated through comprehensive testing strategies and execution. The role requires extensive manual testing expertise, strong stakeholder engagement skills, and experience working within Agile delivery environments to support high-quality solution delivery.

Scope

• Develop and maintain testing strategies, test plans, test scenarios, test cases/scripts, test data, and traceability matrices.

• Plan, coordinate, and execute manual testing activities across multiple applications, environments, and integrated systems.

• Perform functional, integration, regression, user acceptance, accessibility (AODA), and non-functional testing.

• Support Agile delivery teams through participation in sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, and requirements workshops.

Assignment Deliverables

• Comprehensive Test Strategy and Test Plans

• Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Execution Results

• Requirements Traceability Matrices

• Defect Logs and Resolution Tracking Reports

• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Coordination and Support Documentation.

Expertise Required

Must Have:

• 8+ years of demonstrated QA/testing experience, including development of test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, test cases/scripts, test data, and execution of manual testing activities.

• Proven experience performing integration, unit, regression, functional, user acceptance (UAT), accessibility (AODA), and non-functional testing.

• Working knowledge of AODA accessibility requirements and accessibility testing best practices.

• Experience testing data-driven applications, including data validation, data integrity, workflows, business rules, user roles, and permissions.

• Experience creating and maintaining requirements traceability matrices to ensure comprehensive test coverage.

• Experience identifying, documenting, tracking, validating, and retesting defects using Azure DevOps or similar tools.

Nice to Have:

• Experience coordinating large-scale User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.

• Experience with performance, load, and post-implementation testing activities.

Security Clearance

Required.

Important

This is a business-to-business engagement. Candidates must represent an incorporated entity, hold a valid business number, maintain appropriate insurance, and invoice for services rendered.

How to Apply

 Submit your resume in confidence via the Akkodis Canada website.

We thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. Only candidates meeting the above qualifications will be contacted for further discussions.

Accessibility:

At Akkodis, part of The Adecco Group, our purpose is simple: to make the future work for everyone. We live our values, Passion, Collaboration, Inclusion, Courage, and Customers at Heart, by fostering a workplace where diversity is celebrated and every voice matter. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities. Together, we’re making the future work for everyone.