Position: QA Specialist
Location: Toronto, ON
Job ID#: RQ11865
Duration: 11 Months
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Systems Testing / QA Specialist to support testing initiatives for complex enterprise applications and system integrations. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, organizing, executing, and supporting testing activities across various phases of the software development lifecycle. This role requires hands-on experience with manual testing, API testing, integration testing, and test management practices within enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide
advice on testing strategies, test plans, testing tools, and resource
requirements.
- Plan,
organize, and execute testing efforts for large-scale GUI and non-GUI
systems.
- Conduct
systems integration testing, specialized testing, and user acceptance
testing (UAT).
- Develop
and execute test plans, test scripts, test cases, and test data.
- Collaborate
with project teams, testing leads, and IT stakeholders throughout
analysis, design, development, implementation, and support phases.
- Support
functional, non-functional, integration, load, and performance testing
activities.
- Participate
in and support user acceptance testing activities.
- Create
testing documentation including testing strategies, test plans, test
cases, test data, and traceability matrices.
- Analyze
business requirements, functional designs, and business rules.
- Define
expected test results and maintain testing evidence.
- Create
test user accounts and test data required for validation activities.
- Develop
database queries to support test data validation and ensure data
integrity.
- Record
testing results, defects, and test execution activities in testing
management tools.
- Participate
in presentations and knowledge-sharing activities with project and team
members.
- Provide
cross-training support where required.
Required Qualifications
General Skills
- Experience
planning, organizing, and implementing testing efforts.
- Knowledge
of structured methodologies for application development, implementation,
and maintenance.
- Experience
using CASE tools and data query tools to support testing activities.
- Experience
with automated testing tools and version control systems.
- Experience
executing functional, non-functional, and systems integration testing.
- Experience
supporting and participating in UAT activities.
- Understanding
of quality assurance principles, methodologies, and best practices.
- Experience
creating testing strategies, test plans, test cases, and test data.
- Knowledge
of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.
- Strong
analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
- Ability
to work collaboratively within a team environment and meet project
deadlines.
Technical Skills
- Experience
in process, planning, organizing, and implementing testing efforts.
- Experience
with integration testing strategies for asynchronous and event-driven
architectures.
- Experience
testing service-oriented and microservices-based environments.
- Strong
manual testing experience.
- Experience
working with Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) applications.
- Knowledge
of SDLC, STLC, and project management methodologies.
- Hands-on
experience with Azure DevOps for test case management, pipelines, and
defect tracking.
- Strong
understanding of REST, SOAP, HTTP, XML, and JSON.
- Experience
testing APIs, security controls, and data integrity.
- Experience
with risk-based and evidence-based testing approaches.
- Experience
creating test cases, traceability matrices, test data, and test accounts.
- Experience
recording test results and defects in Azure DevOps and/or JIRA.
- Experience
establishing entry, exit, and acceptance criteria for testing activities.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Experience
with registry-based systems.
- Experience
coding automated test scripts.
- Knowledge
of at least one programming language.
- Experience
using information retrieval tools.
- Understanding
of testing in object-oriented environments.
- Knowledge
of Information Management principles and practices.
- Knowledge
of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) standards and
regulations.
- Experience
testing both large and small enterprise systems.
- Strong
written communication skills for documenting and reporting testing
findings.
Work Arrangement
- Onsite
role.
- Standard
business hours, Monday to Friday.
- Toronto,
Ontario.
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.) We serve
customers in two ways, we provide:
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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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