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RQ11501 - Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Senior
Senior QA/testing contractor working 5 days onsite in Toronto for a 6+ month engagement, planning and executing manual, automated, performance, and integration testing for large enterprise systems. Core tooling includes JMeter/LoadRunner, Selenium/UFT, Postman, JIRA/Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Git, and GitLab.
- Compensation
- CA$68–CA$81 / hr
- Location
- Not listed
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Qa
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 10+ years of experience in software testing in enterprise-level IT environments and large-scale systems
- Hands-on working experience in manual testing and automated testing tools and frameworks
- Deep understanding of Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall testing methodologies
- Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar
- Experience with defect tracking tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar
- Proven expertise in end-to-end testing of complex systems, covering functional and non-functional requirements
- Knowledge of cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integration tools like Jenkins, Git, or GitLab
- Ability to work 5 days onsite in Toronto
- Experience planning, organizing, and implementing testing efforts for large systems in GUI and non-GUI environments
- Experience executing functional, non-functional, and systems-level integration tests
- Experience supporting user acceptance testing (UAT) activities
- Experience creating testing strategy documentation, test plans, test cases, and test data
- Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle
- Experience with tools like ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla, TestRail, Zephyr
- Familiarity with tools like Selenium, Cypress, or Postman for API testing
- Understanding of scripting languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Bash) for automation or test data setup
- Demonstrated ability to write queries to validate data and perform backend testing
Nice to have
- Knowledge and experience in at least one programming language
- Experience in the use of information retrieval packages
- Knowledge and understanding of testing methods in an object-oriented environment
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
- Knowledge and understanding of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
- Experience coding automated test scripts to produce sets of automated test cases
- Experience testing Commercial Off-the-Shelf Applications (COTS)
Full description
**RQ11501 - Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Senior
Location: 5 Days ONSITE at TorontoDuration: 6+ Months(135 Business days) + 1 Possible extensionMust Have:**
- 10+ years of experience in software testing in enterprise-level IT environments and large-scale systems
- Hands-on working experience in manual testing and automated testing tools and frameworks.
- Deep understanding of Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall testing methodologies.
- Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar.
- Experience with defect tracking tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar.
- Proven expertise in end-to-end testing of complex systems, ensuring coverage of all functional and non-functional requirements.
- Knowledge of cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integration tools like Jenkins, Git, or GitLab.
Responsibilities
- Provides advice on the testing strategy, test plans, the selection of testing tools, and the identification of resources required for testing.
- Plans and organizes testing efforts for large systems in Graphical User Interface (GUI) and non-Graphical User Interface (GUI) environments, including the execution of systems integration tests, specialized tests, and user acceptance testing (e.g., stress tests).
- The Quality Assurance Specialist is responsible for the development of test plans, test scripts and test cases and executing these against the various components. The tester will work with the testing lead and IT lead of each project as well as the project team members in the analysis, design, development, implementation and ongoing support of the required systems.
- Executes functional, integration, system, and regression tests.
- Validates that the system behaves as expected under various conditions.
- Identifies, document, and track software defects using tools like ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla, and Azure DevOps.
- Works closely with developers to reproduce and resolve issues.
- Develops and maintains automated test scripts using tools like Micro Focus, OpenText UFT, Selenium, TestComplete, or Postman.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Conduct performance, stress, and load testing to ensure the system can handle expected user traffic and data volumes.
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.
- Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and project managers to clarify requirements and ensure quality.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies like sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Maintain detailed documentation of test results, test coverage, and quality metrics.