11779

Maarut; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Maarut in Toronto, Canada, is seeking a Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist to lead QA across enterprise platform features, integrations, releases, and onboarded services. You will design risk-based test strategies, plans, scripts, data, and automation, coordinating with product, analysts, developers, DevOps, security, and ministry partners to ensure readiness and quality.

The role focuses on evidence-based release readiness, residual risk communication, and repeatable testing practices that

Qualifications

• Experience planning and executing end-to-end testing for complex digital solutions.
• Experience with functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, and acceptance testing.
• Experience automating UI, API, service, or database tests.
• Experience testing cloud applications, microservices, and system integrations.
• Ability to coordinate business and technical teams during testing and defect resolution.
• Nice to have OPS or public sector experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain test strategies, plans, schedules, scenarios, scripts, data, and reports.
• Execute manual and automated testing across enterprise platform capabilities and integrations.
• Develop and maintain UI, API, service, and database test automation where appropriate.
• Coordinate test environments, accounts, tools, data, and supporting resources.
• Maintain requirements traceability and test-coverage reporting.
• Lead defect triage and monitor defects through resolution and closure.
• Validate accessibility, security, performance, reliability, and integration requirements.
• Report quality indicators, testing progress, outstanding defects, and release risks.
• Provide evidence-based recommendations on production readiness.

Skills

Test strategy development

Manual testing

Automation testing

Defect triage

Requirements traceability

Cross-functional collaboration

Security testing

Accessibility testing

Analytical skills

Job description

RQ11743 - Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Senior

Leads and performs quality assurance and testing forenterprise platform features, integrations, releases, and onboarded services.The role develops risk-based test strategies, plans, scenarios, scripts, data,automation, traceability, quality metrics, and completion reporting acrossfunctional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance,security, API, database, and user acceptance testing. Working with product,analysts, architects, developers, DevOps engineers, security specialists, businessrepresentatives, and ministry partners, the Senior Systems Testing / QASpecialist coordinates environments and test readiness, identifies and managesdefects, and verifies that approved requirements and quality criteria have beenmet. The role provides evidence-based release-readiness assessments,communicates residual risks, and helps establish repeatable testing practicesand automation that improve coverage, reliability, delivery speed, andconfidence in enterprise platform releases.

Experience:

• Experience testing large, complex digital platforms,enterprise applications, or public-facing services.
  
• Experience developing test strategies, plans, scenarios,scripts, procedures, data, and completion reports.
  
• Experience conducting functional, integration, system,regression, accessibility, performance, security, API, database, and useracceptance testing.
  
• Experience designing and maintaining automated tests foruser interfaces, APIs, services, and data components.
  
• Experience testing cloud-based microservices, distributedapplications, and integrations across multiple systems.
  
• Experience establishing test environments, test accounts,test data, entry and exit criteria, and schedules.
  
• Experience managing defects through identification, triage,prioritization, resolution, retesting, and closure.
  
• Experience maintaining requirements traceability, coveragereporting, dashboards, and quality metrics.
  
• Experience assessing release readiness and communicatingresidual quality risks.
  

General Skills / Duties:

• Define and maintain test strategies, plans, schedules,scenarios, scripts, data, and reports.
  
• Execute manual and automated testing across enterpriseplatform capabilities and integrations.
  
• Develop and maintain UI, API, service, and database testautomation where appropriate.
  
• Coordinate test environments, accounts, tools, data, andsupporting resources.
  
• Maintain requirements traceability and test-coveragereporting.
  
• Lead defect triage and monitor defects through resolutionand closure.
  
• Validate accessibility, security, performance, reliability,and integration requirements.
  
• Report quality indicators, testing progress, outstandingdefects, and release risks.
  
• Provide evidence-based recommendations on productionreadiness.
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Experience planning and executing end-to-end testing forcomplex digital solutions.
  
• Experience with functional, integration, system, regression,accessibility, performance, and acceptance testing.
  
• Experience automating UI, API, service, or database tests.
  
• Experience testing cloud applications, microservices, andsystem integrations.
  
• Ability to coordinate business and technical teams duringtesting and defect resolution.
  

Nice to have:

• OPS or public sector exp.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Testing Strategy and Execution:

• Experience planning and executing end-to-end testing forcomplex digital solutions.
  
• Experience with functional, integration, system, regression,accessibility, performance, and acceptance testing.
  

Test Automation and Technical Testing:

• Experience automating UI, API, service, or database tests.
  
• Experience testing cloud applications, microservices, andsystem integrations.
  

Defect Management and Quality Reporting:

• Experience managing defects, traceability, coverage,metrics, and release-readiness assessments.
  

Communication and Collaboration:

• Excellent analytical, reporting, facilitation, andproblem-solving skills.
  
• Ability to coordinate business and technical teams duringtesting and defect resolution.