Systems Testing / QA Specialist

Position: Systems Testing / QA Specialist

Location: Toronto, ON

Job ID#:  RQ11253 

Duration: 8 Months

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Systems Testing / QA Specialist to lead and execute comprehensive testing strategies for large-scale applications. This role focuses on ensuring software quality through a combination of manual and automated testing, validating system performance, and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on testing strategy, test plans, tool selection, and required resources
  
• Plan, organize, and execute testing for GUI and non-GUI systems, including integration, system, and user acceptance testing
  
• Develop and execute test plans, test scripts, and test cases across various components
  
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and system testing
  
• Identify, document, and track defects using tools such as ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla, and Azure DevOps
  
• Collaborate with development teams to reproduce and resolve defects
  
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts using tools like Selenium, UFT, TestComplete, and Postman
  
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
  
• Conduct performance, stress, and load testing to ensure scalability
  
• Validate system accuracy, integrity, and behavior under different conditions
  
• Ensure compliance with accessibility standards (AODA) and regulatory requirements
  
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives
  
• Maintain documentation including test results, coverage, and quality metrics
  
• Validate data integrity, migration, and transformation across systems
  
• Provide input into user manuals and release documentation
  

Qualifications

Mandatory Skills & Experience

• 5–10 years of experience in QA and testing, including automation and manual testing
  
• Strong experience with defect triaging, reporting, and defect management tools (e.g., Azure DevOps)
  
• Extensive experience in regression testing (manual and automated)
  
• Proven ability to prepare detailed test plans, test cases, and test data
  
• Experience with various testing types: black-box, system, integration, unit, security, penetration, performance, and UAT testing
  
• Hands-on experience with automation tools and scripting
  
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum/DevOps environments
  
• Strong data validation and backend testing experience using queries
  
• Experience with CI/CD integration and automation pipelines
  

Technical Skills

• Familiarity with automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, UFT, Postman
  
• Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner
  
• Understanding of scripting/programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Bash)
  
• Exposure to HTML5, accessibility standards (WAI-ARIA), and front-end technologies
  
• Experience with version control and CASE tools
  

General Competencies

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
  
• Strong organizational skills and ability to meet deadlines
  
• Experience across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  

Nice-to-Have

• Experience working in public sector environments
  
• Experience in contact centre systems
  
• Bilingual testing experience
  

About Symbiotic Digital.

Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.)

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Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100% Indigenous owned company.

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