We are seeking a Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist with extensive hands-on experience in both manual and automation testing within an Agile/DevOps environment. This role requires expertise in the full testing lifecycle, from requirements analysis and test plan creation to defect triage and reporting. A significant portion of the role involves ensuring Accessibility (AODA) compliance through specialized testing and providing remediation recommendations to development teams. This is a fully Onsite position based in Toronto.
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Duration: 3 months (with potential for contract extension)
Advantages
- Leadership in Quality: Direct responsibility for leading defect triage and defining testing strategies for large systems.
- Dual Expertise: Mandatory proficiency in both manual and automation testing across multiple tools and environments.
- Accessibility Focus: Critical role in ensuring AODA compliance, utilizing specialized tools and providing direct technical remediation guidance.
- DevOps Integration: Deep experience working within the Azure DevOps ecosystem for defect tracking, test planning, and requirements management.
Responsibilities
The Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist will be responsible for:
- Test Strategy & Planning (QA Experience): Providing advice on the testing strategy, test plans, and resource requirements. Creating detailed Test Strategy/Test Plan documents. Aligning test cases and plans to business requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Agile & Requirements Management: Working within DevOps/Agile/Scrum Methodology projects. Experienced in requirements gathering, development, and analyzing Business Requirement Documents (BRD) to create test data requirements.
- Defect Management Leadership: Possessing solid experience with triaging defects, participating and leading triage meetings, and producing defect summary reports. Hands-on experience with defect tracking tools such as Azure DevOps.
- Test Case Development: Extensive experience writing, creating, and executing test cases and test scenarios in Azure DevOps for various testing types, including functional, system integration, black box, and UAT testing.
- Automation Testing & Regression: 5+ years developing automation test scripts with multiple Tools. Extensive experience performing regression testing manually and using automation scripts. Experience generating test data through DB queries/DB model analysis.
- Accessibility (AODA) & Technical Support:
- Experience with Screen Readers, Syntax Checking tools, and Colour-Contract tools.
- Ability to provide coding, system, and architecture recommendations to ensure application is Accessible.
- Experience with HTML 5, WAI-ARIA tags, and providing coding recommendation for Accessibility remediation (Java, Angular JS).
- Specialized Testing: Experience performing Load Test, penetration testing, and security testing.
Qualifications
Must-Have Experience:
- Solid experience with triaging defects, participating and leading triage meetings, and producing defect summary reports.
- Hands-on experience with defect tracking and test case creation tools such as Azure DevOps.
- Extensive experience writing test cases, plans and aligning them to requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Experience with requirements gathering and development in agile projects.
- 5+ years developing automation test scripts with multiple Tools and performing extensive regression testing.
- Experience with Screen Readers, Syntax Checking tools, Colour-Contract tools for accessibility testing.
Desired Skills (Assets):
- Experience with development tools (Java, Angular JS) and ability to provide coding recommendation for Accessibility remediation.
- Experience with User Experience Interface design and architecture.
- Knowledge and experience in at least one programming language.
- Experience planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems.
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. Would you like to know more about the required accessibility testing tools?
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.
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We are seeking a Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist with extensive hands-on experience in both manual and automation testing within an Agile/DevOps environment. This role requires expertise in the full testing lifecycle, from requirements analysis and test plan creation to defect triage and reporting. A significant portion of the role involves ensuring Accessibility (AODA) compliance through specialized testing and providing remediation recommendations to development teams. This is a fully Onsite position based in Toronto.
Duration: 3 months (with potential for contract extension)
Advantages
- Leadership in Quality: Direct responsibility for leading defect triage and defining testing strategies for large systems.
- Dual Expertise: Mandatory proficiency in both manual and automation testing across multiple tools and environments.
- Accessibility Focus: Critical role in ensuring AODA compliance, utilizing specialized tools and providing direct technical remediation guidance.
- DevOps Integration: Deep experience working within the Azure DevOps ecosystem for defect tracking, test planning, and requirements management.
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Responsibilities
The Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist will be responsible for:
- Test Strategy & Planning (QA Experience): Providing advice on the testing strategy, test plans, and resource requirements. Creating detailed Test Strategy/Test Plan documents. Aligning test cases and plans to business requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Agile & Requirements Management: Working within DevOps/Agile/Scrum Methodology projects. Experienced in requirements gathering, development, and analyzing Business Requirement Documents (BRD) to create test data requirements.
- Defect Management Leadership: Possessing solid experience with triaging defects, participating and leading triage meetings, and producing defect summary reports. Hands-on experience with defect tracking tools such as Azure DevOps.
- Test Case Development: Extensive experience writing, creating, and executing test cases and test scenarios in Azure DevOps for various testing types, including functional, system integration, black box, and UAT testing.
- Automation Testing & Regression: 5+ years developing automation test scripts with multiple Tools. Extensive experience performing regression testing manually and using automation scripts. Experience generating test data through DB queries/DB model analysis.
- Accessibility (AODA) & Technical Support:
- Experience with Screen Readers, Syntax Checking tools, and Colour-Contract tools.
- Ability to provide coding, system, and architecture recommendations to ensure application is Accessible.
- Experience with HTML 5, WAI-ARIA tags, and providing coding recommendation for Accessibility remediation (Java, Angular JS).
- Specialized Testing: Experience performing Load Test, penetration testing, and security testing.
Qualifications
Must-Have Experience:
- Solid experience with triaging defects, participating and leading triage meetings, and producing defect summary reports.
- Hands-on experience with defect tracking and test case creation tools such as Azure DevOps.
- Extensive experience writing test cases, plans and aligning them to requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Experience with requirements gathering and development in agile projects.
- 5+ years developing automation test scripts with multiple Tools and performing extensive regression testing.
- Experience with Screen Readers, Syntax Checking tools, Colour-Contract tools for accessibility testing.
Desired Skills (Assets):
- Experience with development tools (Java, Angular JS) and ability to provide coding recommendation for Accessibility remediation.
- Experience with User Experience Interface design and architecture.
- Knowledge and experience in at least one programming language.
- Experience planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems.
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. Would you like to know more about the required accessibility testing tools?
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.
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