We are seeking an experienced Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist to lead and execute comprehensive manual and automated quality assurance initiatives across enterprise application environments. In this role, you will be responsible for defining testing strategies, authoring detailed test plans, scenarios, and scripts, generating test data, and
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executing multi-phase testing across both Graphical User Interface (GUI) and non-GUI backend environments. Leveraging strong hands-on expertise in test management and Kanban board workflows in Azure DevOps, alongside automation tools, database validation, and accessibility compliance, you will build full traceability back to business requirements, manage defect lifecycles, and collaborate with multidisciplinary Agile delivery teams to ensure high-quality software releases.
Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)
Duration: 4-month contract.
Advantages
Comprehensive Testing Scope: Lead end-to-end quality assurance across manual execution, test automation, API validation, and accessibility compliance.
Modern Tooling & Workflows: Deep hands-on application of Azure DevOps test management and Kanban board delivery.
Full-Stack Validation: Complete coverage bridging front-end user interfaces, web services, and backend relational databases.
Collaborative Workspace: Work directly alongside dedicated technical squads and project leads in a collaborative Toronto office.
Responsibilities
Provide strategic guidance on test planning, tool selection, resource estimation, and master test strategy formulation.
Plan, organize, and execute end-to-end testing across GUI and non-GUI layers, covering functional, integration, system, regression, unit, accessibility, and non-functional requirements.
Develop, maintain, and execute comprehensive manual test scenarios, test cases, and test data requirements mapped directly to business specifications.
Establish and maintain Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM) to ensure complete alignment between business requirements, test coverage, and verified defects.
Manage test plans, test suites, and test cases within Azure DevOps, actively utilizing Azure DevOps Kanban boards for sprint tracking and task progression.
Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using tools such as Selenium, Postman, OpenText UFT, or equivalent frameworks, and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
Query and validate backend databases (SQL Server, Oracle) to verify data integrity, backend business logic, and transaction accuracy.
Identify, document, reproduce, and track software defects to resolution utilizing tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, ALM, or Bugzilla.
Conduct accessibility compliance audits and testing in accordance with AODA and WCAG standards.
Support non-functional validations, including coordination of performance, load, and stress testing.
Collaborate closely with developers, business analysts, and project managers during defect review meetings and Agile ceremonies (daily scrums, sprint planning, retrospectives).
Maintain detailed test execution logs, defect summary dashboards, and quality metrics reports for project leadership.
Qualifications
Test Design & Manual Testing: 5+ years of dedicated experience developing test cases, test scripts, data requirements, and manual test scenarios (Strictly Required).
Requirements Traceability & Test Data: 5+ years of hands-on experience authoring test cases, preparing test data sets, and building traceability matrices to ensure full business requirement coverage (Strictly Required).
Multi-Type Test Execution: 5+ years of hands-on experience executing diverse testing types, including automation testing, integration testing, unit testing, regression testing, functional testing, accessibility testing, and non-functional testing (Strictly Required).
Azure DevOps & Kanban Management: 3+ years of practical experience managing test plans and test cases in Azure DevOps, with demonstrated hands-on experience in Azure DevOps Kanban board management (Strictly Required).
Automation & API Testing Tooling: Practical experience with test automation and API testing tools such as Selenium, Postman, or equivalent frameworks (Strictly Required).
Database & Query Skills: Strong working knowledge of relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle) with the ability to write and execute SQL queries for data verification (Strictly Required).
Accessibility Standards: Solid understanding and practical testing experience with accessibility standards (AODA, WCAG) (Strictly Required).
Nice-to-Have Assets:
Prior software testing experience within the public sector or enterprise government environments.
Familiarity with public sector quality assurance standards, architecture checkpoints, and governance practices.
Experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, Git).
Familiarity with performance and load testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner.
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 an experienced Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist to lead and execute comprehensive manual and automated quality assurance initiatives across enterprise application environments. In this role, you will be responsible for defining testing strategies, authoring detailed test plans, scenarios, and scripts, generating test data, and executing multi-phase testing across both Graphical User Interface (GUI) and non-GUI backend environments. Leveraging strong hands-on expertise in test management and Kanban board workflows in Azure DevOps, alongside automation tools, database validation, and accessibility compliance, you will build full traceability back to business requirements, manage defect lifecycles, and collaborate with multidisciplinary Agile delivery teams to ensure high-quality software releases.
Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)
Duration: 4-month contract.
Advantages
Comprehensive Testing Scope: Lead end-to-end quality assurance across manual execution, test automation, API validation, and accessibility compliance.
Modern Tooling & Workflows: Deep hands-on application of Azure DevOps test management and Kanban board delivery.
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Full-Stack Validation: Complete coverage bridging front-end user interfaces, web services, and backend relational databases.
Collaborative Workspace: Work directly alongside dedicated technical squads and project leads in a collaborative Toronto office.
Responsibilities
Provide strategic guidance on test planning, tool selection, resource estimation, and master test strategy formulation.
Plan, organize, and execute end-to-end testing across GUI and non-GUI layers, covering functional, integration, system, regression, unit, accessibility, and non-functional requirements.
Develop, maintain, and execute comprehensive manual test scenarios, test cases, and test data requirements mapped directly to business specifications.
Establish and maintain Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM) to ensure complete alignment between business requirements, test coverage, and verified defects.
Manage test plans, test suites, and test cases within Azure DevOps, actively utilizing Azure DevOps Kanban boards for sprint tracking and task progression.
Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using tools such as Selenium, Postman, OpenText UFT, or equivalent frameworks, and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
Query and validate backend databases (SQL Server, Oracle) to verify data integrity, backend business logic, and transaction accuracy.
Identify, document, reproduce, and track software defects to resolution utilizing tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, ALM, or Bugzilla.
Conduct accessibility compliance audits and testing in accordance with AODA and WCAG standards.
Support non-functional validations, including coordination of performance, load, and stress testing.
Collaborate closely with developers, business analysts, and project managers during defect review meetings and Agile ceremonies (daily scrums, sprint planning, retrospectives).
Maintain detailed test execution logs, defect summary dashboards, and quality metrics reports for project leadership.
Qualifications
Test Design & Manual Testing: 5+ years of dedicated experience developing test cases, test scripts, data requirements, and manual test scenarios (Strictly Required).
Requirements Traceability & Test Data: 5+ years of hands-on experience authoring test cases, preparing test data sets, and building traceability matrices to ensure full business requirement coverage (Strictly Required).
Multi-Type Test Execution: 5+ years of hands-on experience executing diverse testing types, including automation testing, integration testing, unit testing, regression testing, functional testing, accessibility testing, and non-functional testing (Strictly Required).
Azure DevOps & Kanban Management: 3+ years of practical experience managing test plans and test cases in Azure DevOps, with demonstrated hands-on experience in Azure DevOps Kanban board management (Strictly Required).
Automation & API Testing Tooling: Practical experience with test automation and API testing tools such as Selenium, Postman, or equivalent frameworks (Strictly Required).
Database & Query Skills: Strong working knowledge of relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle) with the ability to write and execute SQL queries for data verification (Strictly Required).
Accessibility Standards: Solid understanding and practical testing experience with accessibility standards (AODA, WCAG) (Strictly Required).
Nice-to-Have Assets:
Prior software testing experience within the public sector or enterprise government environments.
Familiarity with public sector quality assurance standards, architecture checkpoints, and governance practices.
Experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, Git).
Familiarity with performance and load testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner.
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
