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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.
Must-Have Requirements
- 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.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- 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.
Work Environment
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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- Final role details, responsibilities, and terms will be confirmed with shortlisted candidates. Compensation may vary based on experience. Errors and omissions excepted.
