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 quality engineering capacity, specializing in planning, organizing, and executing comprehensive manual and automated testing across complex, large-scale systems.
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As a senior QA specialist, you will bridge the gap between software development teams, business analysts, and project leadership throughout the entire Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Operating fully onsite in Toronto, you will lead end-to-end functional, non-functional, regression, user acceptance, and API testing efforts, build detailed test cases, manage test data strategies, and govern defect lifecycles using enterprise defect tracking systems. This position demands a thorough quality assurance authority who can establish test strategies, validate database integrity using SQL, and ensure software solutions conform to strict accessibility regulations and industry quality standards.
Location: Toronto, ON
Assignment Type: Onsite
Contract Duration: 12-month contract (with potential for extension)
Advantages
Full-Spectrum Quality Leadership: Direct functional, non-functional, system integration, UAT, and specialized performance testing across large-scale enterprise systems.
Modern Test Tooling & Automation: Gain exposure to automated testing platforms and API utilities, including Selenium, Postman, JMeter, Azure DevOps, and Jira.
Complex Data & Database Validation: Perform backend data verifications, migration validation, and system consistency checks using SQL and Oracle database queries.
Accessibility Compliance Ownership: Lead accessibility testing initiatives to ensure digital compliance with AODA and WCAG standards.
Responsibilities
Provide expert advice on testing strategies, test plans, testing tool selection, and resource allocation required for large-scale enterprise systems.
Plan, organize, and execute functional, integration, system, regression, and user acceptance testing (UAT) across GUI and non-GUI environments.
Design, construct, and maintain comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and test cases tailored to complex business and technical requirements.
Conduct extensive manual testing across functional and non-functional requirements to validate application behavior under diverse operational conditions.
Identify, document, isolate, and track software defects through to resolution using enterprise tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, ALM, and Bugzilla.
Collaborate closely with software developers to reproduce, troubleshoot, and resolve complex application bugs and technical issues.
Develop and maintain automated test scripts using enterprise testing tools (e.g., Selenium, Postman, UFT, or TestComplete) and support integration into CI/CD pipelines.
Conduct performance, stress, and load testing using tools like JMeter or LoadRunner to evaluate system scalability and performance bottlenecks.
Perform backend database testing and data integrity verification using SQL queries across relational databases such as Oracle and SQL Server.
Manage robust test data strategies, generating realistic test datasets while ensuring data privacy across test environments.
Ensure application testing processes adhere to Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) regulations and standards.
Participate actively in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, technical walkthroughs, and retrospectives.
Maintain detailed technical documentation of test coverage, execution metrics, quality results, release notes, and user manuals.
Qualifications
Core Requirements & Testing Mastery
Enterprise QA Experience: 10+ years of dedicated software testing experience in enterprise-level IT environments and large-scale systems.
Manual & Non-Functional Testing: Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience performing manual testing across functional, non-functional, system integration, and UAT phases.
Defect Management: Proven, hands-on experience using Jira, Azure DevOps, ALM, or similar tools to log, track, prioritize, and manage defect lifecycles.
API & Automation Tooling: Hands-on experience developing and maintaining automated test scripts or API tests using tools such as Selenium, Postman, Cypress, or Swagger.
Database Verification: Demonstrated experience writing SQL queries to perform backend database validations across platforms like Oracle or SQL Server.
Accessibility Compliance: Extensive experience conducting accessibility testing and ensuring compliance with AODA regulations and standards.
Methodology Expertise: Deep understanding of structured testing methodologies across Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall delivery models.
Preferred Assets
Performance & CI/CD Tooling: Familiarity with performance testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner) and CI/CD pipeline integration tools (Jenkins, Git, GitLab).
Programming Knowledge: Basic knowledge or experience with programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Java, Bash).
Public Sector Context: Familiarity with public sector quality assurance standards and practices.
Soft Skills & Delivery Attributes
Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills to interact effectively with functional, technical, and executive project teams.
Analytical Problem Solving: Proven systematic problem-solving capabilities and analytical skills to diagnose system issues under tight deadlines.
Team Collaboration: Strong interpersonal relations with a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within large cross-functional teams.
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 quality engineering capacity, specializing in planning, organizing, and executing comprehensive manual and automated testing across complex, large-scale systems.
As a senior QA specialist, you will bridge the gap between software development teams, business analysts, and project leadership throughout the entire Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Operating fully onsite in Toronto, you will lead end-to-end functional, non-functional, regression, user acceptance, and API testing efforts, build detailed test cases, manage test data strategies, and govern defect lifecycles using enterprise defect tracking systems. This position demands a thorough quality assurance authority who can establish test strategies, validate database integrity using SQL, and ensure software solutions conform to strict accessibility regulations and industry quality standards.
Location: Toronto, ON
Assignment Type: Onsite
Contract Duration: 12-month contract (with potential for extension)
Advantages
...
Full-Spectrum Quality Leadership: Direct functional, non-functional, system integration, UAT, and specialized performance testing across large-scale enterprise systems.
Modern Test Tooling & Automation: Gain exposure to automated testing platforms and API utilities, including Selenium, Postman, JMeter, Azure DevOps, and Jira.
Complex Data & Database Validation: Perform backend data verifications, migration validation, and system consistency checks using SQL and Oracle database queries.
Accessibility Compliance Ownership: Lead accessibility testing initiatives to ensure digital compliance with AODA and WCAG standards.
Responsibilities
Provide expert advice on testing strategies, test plans, testing tool selection, and resource allocation required for large-scale enterprise systems.
Plan, organize, and execute functional, integration, system, regression, and user acceptance testing (UAT) across GUI and non-GUI environments.
Design, construct, and maintain comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and test cases tailored to complex business and technical requirements.
Conduct extensive manual testing across functional and non-functional requirements to validate application behavior under diverse operational conditions.
Identify, document, isolate, and track software defects through to resolution using enterprise tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, ALM, and Bugzilla.
Collaborate closely with software developers to reproduce, troubleshoot, and resolve complex application bugs and technical issues.
Develop and maintain automated test scripts using enterprise testing tools (e.g., Selenium, Postman, UFT, or TestComplete) and support integration into CI/CD pipelines.
Conduct performance, stress, and load testing using tools like JMeter or LoadRunner to evaluate system scalability and performance bottlenecks.
Perform backend database testing and data integrity verification using SQL queries across relational databases such as Oracle and SQL Server.
Manage robust test data strategies, generating realistic test datasets while ensuring data privacy across test environments.
Ensure application testing processes adhere to Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) regulations and standards.
Participate actively in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, technical walkthroughs, and retrospectives.
Maintain detailed technical documentation of test coverage, execution metrics, quality results, release notes, and user manuals.
Qualifications
Core Requirements & Testing Mastery
Enterprise QA Experience: 10+ years of dedicated software testing experience in enterprise-level IT environments and large-scale systems.
Manual & Non-Functional Testing: Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience performing manual testing across functional, non-functional, system integration, and UAT phases.
Defect Management: Proven, hands-on experience using Jira, Azure DevOps, ALM, or similar tools to log, track, prioritize, and manage defect lifecycles.
API & Automation Tooling: Hands-on experience developing and maintaining automated test scripts or API tests using tools such as Selenium, Postman, Cypress, or Swagger.
Database Verification: Demonstrated experience writing SQL queries to perform backend database validations across platforms like Oracle or SQL Server.
Accessibility Compliance: Extensive experience conducting accessibility testing and ensuring compliance with AODA regulations and standards.
Methodology Expertise: Deep understanding of structured testing methodologies across Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall delivery models.
Preferred Assets
Performance & CI/CD Tooling: Familiarity with performance testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner) and CI/CD pipeline integration tools (Jenkins, Git, GitLab).
Programming Knowledge: Basic knowledge or experience with programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Java, Bash).
Public Sector Context: Familiarity with public sector quality assurance standards and practices.
Soft Skills & Delivery Attributes
Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills to interact effectively with functional, technical, and executive project teams.
Analytical Problem Solving: Proven systematic problem-solving capabilities and analytical skills to diagnose system issues under tight deadlines.
Team Collaboration: Strong interpersonal relations with a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within large cross-functional teams.
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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