We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will take on a premier technical capacity within the quality assurance stream, specializing in the end-to-end verification, functional automation, and regression testing of sophisticated web application components and reports.
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As a senior QA authority, you will bridge the gap between complex software development requirements and defect management systems. Operating entirely onsite, you will construct comprehensive test plans, formulate precise entry and exit criteria, and manipulate specialized testing tools to execute direct API validation. This position demands an expert who can confidently lead defect review sessions, perform backend data verification, and ensure all system implementations meet rigorous performance, functionality, and regulatory compliance standards.
Location: Toronto, ON
Assignment Type: Onsite (5 days/week, 7.25 hours/day)
Contract Duration: 12 months (with potential for extension)
Advantages
Full-Suite Testing Ownership: Lead end-to-end QA validation across functional, regression, API, automation, and integration testing layers.
Modern API Toolkit: Utilize market-leading automated test tools like Postman, Swagger, and SoapUI to engineer mock data matrices.
Backend Visibility: Execute deep backend data mapping and structural verifications using SQL inside enterprise Oracle environments.
Cross-Functional Authority: Present test outcomes to technical and business stakeholders while leading multi-disciplinary defect triage sessions.
Responsibilities
Test Plan Engineering: Formulate, execute, and maintain complex, comprehensive test plans, scenarios, and test cases for assigned web application scopes.
End-to-End Validation: Perform rigorous functional, integration, and regression testing across modern web application components, backend services, and dynamic reports.
API & Automated Testing: Leverage specialized testing suites to build automated validation scripts and execute direct API layer data transactions.
Mock Data Mockup: Construct robust, variable test data profiles using automated tooling to support development and regression flows inside active sprints.
Defect Lifecycle Governance: Document, triage, and track system defects based on strict priority and severity levels using industry-standard tracking software throughout the testing life cycle.
Defect Review Leadership: Lead and facilitate regular defect review boards, collaborative triage sessions, and engineering status walk-throughs.
Database Verification: Execute direct database validations, structural data queries, and profiling rules utilizing SQL in an enterprise Oracle environment.
User Acceptance Support: Assist business groups with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by supplying clean data mockups and advising on test execution steps.
Strategic Input & Peer Reviews: Plan, direct, and participate in formal peer reviews of test artifacts while providing analytical input to optimize master project test strategies.
Stakeholder Alignment Reporting: Translate technical log analytics into clear, actionable quality reports, communicating test data to both technical developers and business owners.
Scope & Issue Advisory: Collaborate with delivery managers and test leads to define iteration boundaries, establish software entry/exit criteria, and manage testing scope changes.
Qualifications
Core Technical & Testing Requirements
Professional QA Tenure: Extensive experience in software testing and quality engineering, showcasing deep technical expertise following structured master testing strategies.
Web Ecosystem Testing Depth: Demonstrated track record executing complete functional, integration, and regression testing across multi-tier web application components and enterprise reporting systems.
API Validation Tooling Mastery: Proven expertise engineering robust datasets and conducting direct API validations using advanced automation utilities (such as Postman, Swagger, or SoapUI).
Database Querying Capabilities: Strong hands-on experience performing structural data profiling and database integrity verifications utilizing SQL inside Oracle environments.
Defect Tracking Management: High proficiency logging, monitoring, and tracing system vulnerabilities inside industry-standard defect tracking platforms across the software development lifecycle.
Framework Metrics Design: Practical experience designing specific entry and exit criteria to govern system integration testing (SIT) efforts.
Specialized Standards & Methodologies
Iterative Agile Delivery: Practical experience operating as a core quality assurance resource inside Agile sprints, participating in iteration planning, and establishing explicit feature acceptance criteria.
Interoperability Standards Awareness: Foundational knowledge of modern information exchange protocols, such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) concepts.
Digital Inclusion Compliance: Functional understanding of universal accessibility regulations, web content design standards, and validation guidelines.
Leadership & Interpersonal Strength
Consultative Facilitation: Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to summarize technical validation logs into concise reports for diverse stakeholders.
Triage & Consensus Building: Advanced interpersonal and negotiation skills, with a history of leading peer reviews, coordinating multi-disciplinary defect forums, and driving group consensus.
Analytical Problem Solving: Superior troubleshooting, data profiling, and critical thinking capabilities to isolate complex environment anomalies under tight release timelines.
Deadline-Driven Focus: A highly organized, detail-oriented professional with a track record of meeting strict delivery targets inside fast-paced project environments.
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!
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 a highly accomplished Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will take on a premier technical capacity within the quality assurance stream, specializing in the end-to-end verification, functional automation, and regression testing of sophisticated web application components and reports.
As a senior QA authority, you will bridge the gap between complex software development requirements and defect management systems. Operating entirely onsite, you will construct comprehensive test plans, formulate precise entry and exit criteria, and manipulate specialized testing tools to execute direct API validation. This position demands an expert who can confidently lead defect review sessions, perform backend data verification, and ensure all system implementations meet rigorous performance, functionality, and regulatory compliance standards.
Location: Toronto, ON
Assignment Type: Onsite (5 days/week, 7.25 hours/day)
Contract Duration: 12 months (with potential for extension)
Advantages
Full-Suite Testing Ownership: Lead end-to-end QA validation across functional, regression, API, automation, and integration testing layers.
...
Modern API Toolkit: Utilize market-leading automated test tools like Postman, Swagger, and SoapUI to engineer mock data matrices.
Backend Visibility: Execute deep backend data mapping and structural verifications using SQL inside enterprise Oracle environments.
Cross-Functional Authority: Present test outcomes to technical and business stakeholders while leading multi-disciplinary defect triage sessions.
Responsibilities
Test Plan Engineering: Formulate, execute, and maintain complex, comprehensive test plans, scenarios, and test cases for assigned web application scopes.
End-to-End Validation: Perform rigorous functional, integration, and regression testing across modern web application components, backend services, and dynamic reports.
API & Automated Testing: Leverage specialized testing suites to build automated validation scripts and execute direct API layer data transactions.
Mock Data Mockup: Construct robust, variable test data profiles using automated tooling to support development and regression flows inside active sprints.
Defect Lifecycle Governance: Document, triage, and track system defects based on strict priority and severity levels using industry-standard tracking software throughout the testing life cycle.
Defect Review Leadership: Lead and facilitate regular defect review boards, collaborative triage sessions, and engineering status walk-throughs.
Database Verification: Execute direct database validations, structural data queries, and profiling rules utilizing SQL in an enterprise Oracle environment.
User Acceptance Support: Assist business groups with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by supplying clean data mockups and advising on test execution steps.
Strategic Input & Peer Reviews: Plan, direct, and participate in formal peer reviews of test artifacts while providing analytical input to optimize master project test strategies.
Stakeholder Alignment Reporting: Translate technical log analytics into clear, actionable quality reports, communicating test data to both technical developers and business owners.
Scope & Issue Advisory: Collaborate with delivery managers and test leads to define iteration boundaries, establish software entry/exit criteria, and manage testing scope changes.
Qualifications
Core Technical & Testing Requirements
Professional QA Tenure: Extensive experience in software testing and quality engineering, showcasing deep technical expertise following structured master testing strategies.
Web Ecosystem Testing Depth: Demonstrated track record executing complete functional, integration, and regression testing across multi-tier web application components and enterprise reporting systems.
API Validation Tooling Mastery: Proven expertise engineering robust datasets and conducting direct API validations using advanced automation utilities (such as Postman, Swagger, or SoapUI).
Database Querying Capabilities: Strong hands-on experience performing structural data profiling and database integrity verifications utilizing SQL inside Oracle environments.
Defect Tracking Management: High proficiency logging, monitoring, and tracing system vulnerabilities inside industry-standard defect tracking platforms across the software development lifecycle.
Framework Metrics Design: Practical experience designing specific entry and exit criteria to govern system integration testing (SIT) efforts.
Specialized Standards & Methodologies
Iterative Agile Delivery: Practical experience operating as a core quality assurance resource inside Agile sprints, participating in iteration planning, and establishing explicit feature acceptance criteria.
Interoperability Standards Awareness: Foundational knowledge of modern information exchange protocols, such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) concepts.
Digital Inclusion Compliance: Functional understanding of universal accessibility regulations, web content design standards, and validation guidelines.
Leadership & Interpersonal Strength
Consultative Facilitation: Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to summarize technical validation logs into concise reports for diverse stakeholders.
Triage & Consensus Building: Advanced interpersonal and negotiation skills, with a history of leading peer reviews, coordinating multi-disciplinary defect forums, and driving group consensus.
Analytical Problem Solving: Superior troubleshooting, data profiling, and critical thinking capabilities to isolate complex environment anomalies under tight release timelines.
Deadline-Driven Focus: A highly organized, detail-oriented professional with a track record of meeting strict delivery targets inside fast-paced project environments.
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!
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.
show more
