We are seeking an experienced Senior QA/Test Lead to drive end-to-end quality assurance, test strategy, and manual testing activities for enterprise IT solutions. In this role, you will be responsible for defining technical test strategies, authoring comprehensive test plans, and managing end-to-end testing cycles across front-end and back-end components. Working closely with cross-functional Agile delivery teams, you will perform functional, integration, regression, accessibility (AODA), and non-functional testing, while tracking defects in Azure DevOps and facilitating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure complete requirement coverage and high-quality software releases.
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Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid – 3 days/week onsite)
Duration: 5-month contract.
Advantages
End-to-End Test Leadership: Direct full-lifecycle QA strategy and manual test execution across enterprise, data-driven platforms.
Comprehensive Testing Scope: Lead diverse testing domains spanning functional, system integration, AODA accessibility, UAT, and non-functional validation.
Agile & Modern Tooling: Work in an iterative Agile delivery environment utilizing Azure DevOps for defect tracking and requirements traceability.
Flexible Hybrid Model: Enjoy a balanced work environment with 3 days onsite in Toronto and remote flexibility.
Responsibilities
Test Strategy & Planning: Develop and maintain technical test strategies, master test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and test data mapped against business requirements and acceptance criteria.
Full-Lifecycle Manual Testing: Plan, coordinate, and execute manual testing across web, desktop, and backend components, including functional, unit, integration, system, regression, and post-implementation testing.
Accessibility Compliance: Conduct web accessibility testing to validate system compliance with AODA and WCAG standards across digital touchpoints.
Integration & Data Validation: Validate data-driven workflows, business logic, system interfaces, security permissions, data integrity, and non-functional performance requirements.
Defect Management & Tracking: Identify, document, reproduce, and track software defects to resolution using Azure DevOps, ensuring clear steps to reproduce, severity ratings, and retesting validation.
Requirements Traceability: Build and maintain detailed requirements traceability matrices (RTM) to ensure complete test coverage across all user stories and business requirements.
UAT Facilitation: Lead and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions with business stakeholders, preparing test environments, managing defect triage, and verifying UAT outcomes.
Agile Collaboration & Knowledge Transfer: Participate in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives), report testing status and risks, and produce complete testing documentation for operational handovers.
Qualifications
Senior QA/Testing Experience: 8+ years of demonstrated QA testing experience, including developing technical test strategies, test plans, scenarios, scripts, test data, and manual test execution (Strictly Required).
Multi-Layer Testing Execution: Proven experience performing functional, unit, integration, regression, non-functional, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) (Strictly Required).
Accessibility Standards: Working knowledge of web accessibility testing practices and AODA / WCAG compliance (Strictly Required).
Defect Tracking & Requirements Traceability: Demonstrated experience tracking, retesting, and managing defects using Azure DevOps (or similar tools) and maintaining requirements traceability matrices (Strictly Required).
Data-Driven Application Testing: Hands-on experience validating backend data integrity, user permissions, workflows, and complex business rules (Strictly Required).
Agile Methodology & Communication: Strong experience working within Agile frameworks with excellent stakeholder management, meeting facilitation, and written/verbal communication skills (Strictly Required).
Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior QA/Test Lead" 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!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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We are seeking an experienced Senior QA/Test Lead to drive end-to-end quality assurance, test strategy, and manual testing activities for enterprise IT solutions. In this role, you will be responsible for defining technical test strategies, authoring comprehensive test plans, and managing end-to-end testing cycles across front-end and back-end components. Working closely with cross-functional Agile delivery teams, you will perform functional, integration, regression, accessibility (AODA), and non-functional testing, while tracking defects in Azure DevOps and facilitating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure complete requirement coverage and high-quality software releases.
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid – 3 days/week onsite)
Duration: 5-month contract.
Advantages
End-to-End Test Leadership: Direct full-lifecycle QA strategy and manual test execution across enterprise, data-driven platforms.
Comprehensive Testing Scope: Lead diverse testing domains spanning functional, system integration, AODA accessibility, UAT, and non-functional validation.
Agile & Modern Tooling: Work in an iterative Agile delivery environment utilizing Azure DevOps for defect tracking and requirements traceability.
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Flexible Hybrid Model: Enjoy a balanced work environment with 3 days onsite in Toronto and remote flexibility.
Responsibilities
Test Strategy & Planning: Develop and maintain technical test strategies, master test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and test data mapped against business requirements and acceptance criteria.
Full-Lifecycle Manual Testing: Plan, coordinate, and execute manual testing across web, desktop, and backend components, including functional, unit, integration, system, regression, and post-implementation testing.
Accessibility Compliance: Conduct web accessibility testing to validate system compliance with AODA and WCAG standards across digital touchpoints.
Integration & Data Validation: Validate data-driven workflows, business logic, system interfaces, security permissions, data integrity, and non-functional performance requirements.
Defect Management & Tracking: Identify, document, reproduce, and track software defects to resolution using Azure DevOps, ensuring clear steps to reproduce, severity ratings, and retesting validation.
Requirements Traceability: Build and maintain detailed requirements traceability matrices (RTM) to ensure complete test coverage across all user stories and business requirements.
UAT Facilitation: Lead and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions with business stakeholders, preparing test environments, managing defect triage, and verifying UAT outcomes.
Agile Collaboration & Knowledge Transfer: Participate in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives), report testing status and risks, and produce complete testing documentation for operational handovers.
Qualifications
Senior QA/Testing Experience: 8+ years of demonstrated QA testing experience, including developing technical test strategies, test plans, scenarios, scripts, test data, and manual test execution (Strictly Required).
Multi-Layer Testing Execution: Proven experience performing functional, unit, integration, regression, non-functional, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) (Strictly Required).
Accessibility Standards: Working knowledge of web accessibility testing practices and AODA / WCAG compliance (Strictly Required).
Defect Tracking & Requirements Traceability: Demonstrated experience tracking, retesting, and managing defects using Azure DevOps (or similar tools) and maintaining requirements traceability matrices (Strictly Required).
Data-Driven Application Testing: Hands-on experience validating backend data integrity, user permissions, workflows, and complex business rules (Strictly Required).
Agile Methodology & Communication: Strong experience working within Agile frameworks with excellent stakeholder management, meeting facilitation, and written/verbal communication skills (Strictly Required).
Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior QA/Test Lead" 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!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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