Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist

We are seeking an experienced Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist to lead and execute end-to-end quality assurance for enterprise platform features, integrations, and releases. In this role, you will be responsible for developing risk-based test strategies, master test plans, automated scripts, and quality metrics across functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, and security testing layers. Working closely with cross-functional technical leads, developers, DevOps engineers, and business stakeholders, you will manage test environments, drive defect triage, verify system requirements, and provide evidence-based release-readiness assessments to ensure reliable software delivery.

Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)

Duration: 11-month contract.

Advantages
Full-Spectrum Testing: Lead end-to-end QA spanning UI, REST API, microservices, accessibility, and performance testing.

Cloud & Automation Focus: Build reusable automation frameworks for distributed cloud applications and system integrations.

Release Governance: Deliver direct, evidence-based release readiness assessments and risk evaluations to leadership.

Onsite Synergy: Collaborate directly alongside developers, architects, and business leads in a dedicated workspace.

Responsibilities
Test Strategy & Master Planning: Define, maintain, and execute comprehensive risk-based test strategies, master test plans, test scenarios, test scripts, data sets, and completion reports.

Full-Spectrum QA Execution: Perform manual and automated testing across functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility (AODA/WCAG), performance, security, API, database, and user acceptance testing (UAT) domains.

Test Automation Engineering: Design, build, and maintain automated test suites covering user interfaces, REST APIs, microservices, and database components.

Cloud & Microservices Validation: Validate cloud-based microservices, distributed architectures, and complex multi-system integrations.

Defect Management & Resolution: Lead defect triage sessions, track defects through identification, prioritization, resolution, and retesting, while maintaining end-to-end requirements traceability.

Environment & Readiness Coordination: Coordinate test environments, accounts, tools, data dependencies, and entry/exit schedules across business and technical teams.

Quality Metrics & Risk Assessment: Author quality metric dashboards, report testing progress, evaluate residual quality risks, and deliver evidence-based recommendations on production readiness.

Qualifications
End-to-End QA Leadership: Proven experience planning and executing end-to-end testing strategies for complex enterprise digital solutions (Strictly Required).

Multi-Layer Testing Execution: Hands-on experience with functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, and user acceptance testing (Strictly Required).

Test Automation: Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining automated test suites for user interfaces, APIs, services, or databases (Strictly Required).

Cloud Applications & Microservices: Practical experience testing cloud-native applications, microservices, and multi-platform system integrations (Strictly Required).

Cross-Functional Stakeholder Coordination: Proven ability to coordinate business and technical teams throughout test execution, environment readiness, and defect resolution (Strictly Required).

Nice-to-Have Assets:
Prior quality assurance or systems testing experience within a public sector environment.

Knowledge of web accessibility standards (WCAG / AODA compliance) and security testing frameworks.

Experience working with Agile, DevOps, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

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