Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Intermediate

Role overview

• Title: Systems Testing/QA Specialist – Intermediate

• Location: Toronto, Ontario

• Position type: On-site, 5 days per week

• Role type: Contract

• Duration: 6 Months / Extension

• Interview type: In person

• Rate: CAD $40/hour

• Years of experience: 4+ in QA testing, with hands-on manual and automation experience

About the role

We’re looking for an Intermediate Systems Testing/QA Specialist to plan and execute testing for large enterprise systems. You’ll own testing from strategy and test planning through execution, automation, and UAT support, across GUI and non-GUI environments. You’ll handle functional, regression, performance, and accessibility (AODA) testing, and work closely with developers, business analysts, and project teams in an Agile environment.

What you’ll do

• Define testing strategies, test plans, test cases, and test scripts, and advise on tools and resources.

• Execute functional, integration, system, regression, and end-to-end testing.

• Plan and support user acceptance testing (UAT).

• Conduct accessibility testing against AODA standards.

• Build and maintain automated tests using tools like Selenium, Cypress, Postman, UFT, or TestComplete, and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.

• Run performance, load, and stress testing with JMeter or LoadRunner and analyze bottlenecks.

• Validate data integrity using SQL/Oracle, including data migration testing and test data management.

• Log and track defects in JIRA, Azure DevOps, or ALM, and work with developers to resolve them.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies and maintain test results, coverage reports, and quality metrics.

Must-have requirements

• 4+ years of software testing experience in enterprise-level IT environments.

• Hands-on experience with both manual and automated testing.

• Extensive experience with AODA accessibility testing and compliance.

• Experience creating test strategies, test cases, scripts, and test reports.

• Experience with Selenium or Postman (API testing).

• Experience with JMeter or LoadRunner for performance testing.

• Experience with JIRA or Azure DevOps for defect tracking.

• Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall testing methodologies.

Nice to have

• Experience writing SQL/Oracle queries for data validation and backend testing.

• Exposure to Azure or AWS, and to CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Git, or GitLab.

• Scripting skills (Python, JavaScript, or Bash) for automation and test data setup.

• Experience testing COTS (Commercial Off-the-Shelf) applications.

• Basic security testing knowledge.

• Public-sector experience, including government QA standards and practices.