QA Specialist

Symbiotic Group; Toronto; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Symbiotic Digital, a division of Symbiotic Group Inc., seeks a QA Specialist for a Queen's Park project in Toronto, ON. You will plan, document, and execute testing across functional, performance, and security domains, collaborating with analysts and IT teams to ensure quality and readiness.

You will lead test design, perform UAT/PAT support, and report defects with clear remediation steps to stakeholders. Onsite delivery with multi-faceted interfaces and strict governance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience developing test strategies, plans and cases.
• Experience delivering QA requirements in Waterfall and Agile.
• Proficient with test types: unit, functional, integration, UAT, PAT, load, security.
• Familiar with automated testing frameworks and defect management tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and document comprehensive test plans and cases.
• Execute end-to-end functional, regression and performance tests.
• Perform vulnerability testing with IT teams as required.
• Document defects, retest fixes and report findings to stakeholders.
• Support UAT and PAT with business users and project teams.
• Prepare QA artifacts for architecture checkpoints and releases.

Skills

Test planning

Regression testing

Performance testing

UAT/PAT

Agile

Waterfall

Bug tracking

Documentation

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Confluence

Jira

TestRail

Job description

Queen's Park Ontario Provincial Government, Canada | Posted on 07/24/2026

• Country Canada

Job Description

Position: QASpecialist

Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite)

Job ID#: RQ11297

Duration: 8 Months

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Systems Testing / QASpecialist to support quality assurance activities across complex technologysolutions. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning,documenting, executing, and reporting on a wide range of testing activities toensure solutions meet business, functional, performance, security, andoperational requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Participateand collaborate with Business Analysts during business requirements anduse case walkthroughs.
  
• Developand document comprehensive test plans covering all required qualityassurance testing activities.
  
• Developand document detailed test cases aligned with approved businessrequirements and use cases.
  
• Developand execute testing checklists and ensure completion throughout varioustesting stages.
  
• Supportproduction readiness activities by incorporating testing checklists intoproduction readiness reviews.
  
• Troubleshoottechnical issues identified during testing activities.
  
• Performend-to-end system functional testing based on documented test cases.
  
• Performregression testing to ensure existing and new functionality work asexpected.
  
• Performperformance testing to validate system integrity and responsiveness.
  
• Collaboratewith IT teams to perform vulnerability testing as required.
  
• Documentidentified defects and perform re-testing following defect resolution.
  
• Collaboratewith project management teams on project planning, change management, andrelease/implementation activities.
  
• ContributeQA artifacts required for architecture checkpoint activities.
  
• SupportUser Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Production Acceptance Testing (PAT) withbusiness stakeholders.
  
• Conductmanual testing where required to supplement and validate automated testingresults.
  
• Compile,summarize, and report findings from both automated and manual testingactivities.
  

Qualifications

Testing & Quality Assurance Experience

• 10+years of experience developing test strategies, test plans, testscenarios, test cases, and troubleshooting technical issues.
  
• Demonstratedexperience delivering testing and QA requirements within both Waterfalland Agile methodologies.
  
• Experienceperforming a wide variety of testing types including:
  
• UnitTesting
  
• FunctionalTesting
  
• IntegrationTesting
  
• UserAcceptance Testing (UAT)
  
• ProductionAcceptance Testing (PAT)
  
• PerformanceTesting
  
• RegressionTesting
  
• LoadTesting
  
• SecurityTesting
  
• WebServices Testing
  
• Experiencewith automated testing frameworks and methodologies.
  
• Experienceusing version control systems and defect management tools such asConfluence, Jira, or TestRail.
  

Technical Skills & Experience

• Experienceconfiguring system and testing environments.
  
• Experiencetesting both custom-developed solutions and Commercial Off-The-Shelf(COTS) applications.
  
• Experiencewith multi-tier, multi-platform, integrated, and interconnected solutionenvironments.
  
• Experiencetesting web, desktop, and mobile applications.
  
• Experiencesupporting high-availability, mission-critical, and 24x7 environments.
  
• Experiencewith system debugging, refactoring, and optimization activities.
  

Communication & Interpersonal Skills

• Abilityto identify, coordinate, resolve, re-test, and close system defects.
  
• Strongwritten and verbal communication skills.
  
• Experiencepreparing reports and technical documentation.
  
• Abilityto present testing findings and solution functionality to stakeholders.
  
• Abilityto manage multiple assignments concurrently.
  
• Stronganalytical and problem-solving skills.
  
• Excellentinterpersonal and negotiation skills.
  
• Strongconsulting and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
  
• Provenability to work collaboratively in a team environment and meet deadlines.
  

Public Sector Experience

• Understandingof IT standards and guidelines related to test strategies, test scenarios,and test case development.
  
• Understandingof security and privacy considerations when validating technologysolutions against business requirements.
  

About Symbiotic Digital.

Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can dofor you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.) We servecustomers in two ways, we provide:

• DigitalExperts: IT Consulting expertise. Bright Minds That Produce Proven Results
  
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Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digitalprovides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staffneeded to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the mostreputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help themstaff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by ourproven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100%Indigenous owned company.