RQ11743 – Systems Testing/QA Specialist – Senior

S M Software Solutions Inc; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement invites applications for a Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist to lead QA across complex digital platforms. The role encompasses end-to-end testing, automation, defect management, and release-readiness, coordinating across product teams, developers, and security specialists to ensure quality for enterprise releases.

The candidate will develop risk-based test strategies, plans, scripts, data, and metrics, and will drive testing

Qualifications

• Plan and execute end-to-end testing for complex digital solutions.
• Perform functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, and acceptance testing.
• Automate UI, API, service, or database tests.
• Test cloud applications, microservices, and system integrations.
• Coordinate business and technical teams during testing and defect resolution.

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.
• Coordinate test environments, accounts, tools, data, and supporting resources.
• 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 planning

End-to-end testing

Automation testing

Cloud/microservices testing

Team coordination

Job description

Client: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement – RQ11743

We are seeking a Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist with extensive experience in end-to-end testing, quality assurance, test automation, defect management, and release-readiness assessment for complex digital solutions and enterprise platforms. The ideal candidate will have hands‑on experience with functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, API, database, and user acceptance testing. The successful candidate will develop risk‑based test strategies, coordinate testing activities across business and technical teams, manage defects, maintain requirements traceability, and ensure that enterprise platform features, integrations, releases, and onboarded services meet approved requirements and quality standards.

Role Snapshot

• Job Title: RQ11743 – Systems Testing/QA Specialist – Senior
• Client: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement
• Work Location: 222 Jarvis Street, 5th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Work Arrangement: Onsite – 5 Days per Week
• Estimated Start Date: November 9, 2026
• Estimated End Date: September 28, 2027
• Business Days: 225.00
• Extension: Probable after the initial mandate
• Hours: 7.25 hours per day
• Security Level: No Clearance Required

Must Have

• 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

• Ontario Public Service (OPS) or public sector experience.

Description

The Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist leads and performs quality assurance and testing for enterprise 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 across functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, API, database, and user acceptance testing.

Working with product teams, analysts, architects, developers, DevOps engineers, security specialists, business representatives, and ministry partners, the Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist coordinates environments and test readiness, identifies and manages defects, and verifies that approved requirements and quality criteria have been met.

The role provides evidence‑based release‑readiness assessments, communicates residual risks, and helps establish repeatable testing practices and automation that improve coverage, reliability, delivery speed, and confidence 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 user acceptance testing.
• Experience designing and maintaining automated tests for user interfaces, APIs, services, and data components.
• Experience testing cloud‑based microservices, distributed applications, 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, coverage reporting, dashboards, and quality metrics.
• Experience assessing release readiness and communicating residual quality risks.

General Skills / Duties

• 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.

Experience And Skill Set Requirements

• Testing Strategy and Execution – 35%
• Experience planning and executing end-to-end testing for complex digital solutions.
• Experience with functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, and acceptance testing.
• Test Automation and Technical Testing – 25%
• Experience automating UI, API, service, or database tests.
• Experience testing cloud applications, microservices, and system integrations.
• Defect Management and Quality Reporting – 25%
• Experience managing defects, traceability, coverage, metrics, and release-readiness assessments.
• Communication and Collaboration – 15%
• Excellent analytical, reporting, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to coordinate business and technical teams during testing and defect resolution.

Additional Information

• Work Arrangement: Onsite – 5 days per week.