Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist

Randstad Canada; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Canada seeks a Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist to lead end-to-end QA lifecycle for large-scale enterprise systems in a hybrid Toronto setting. You will drive testing strategy, defect management, and automation across GUI and backend data layers.

Working with Agile squads, you ensure applications are robust, secure, accessible, and compliant with data integrity standards. The role covers triage, automation, performance testing, and collaboration with cross-functional teams on

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of progressive QA and systems testing experience.
• Proven defect triage and reporting mastery is required.
• Extensive automated regression scripting experience with manual testing.
• Experience across black box, SIT, UAT testing and backend validation.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or Jira/ALM ecosystems.
• Programming basics (Python, JavaScript, or Bash) for test automation.

Responsibilities

• Defect Triage & Lifecycle Ownership: Lead and facilitate comprehensive defect triage sessions with development teams and business units, analyzing system errors down to the root cause, managing priorities, and authoring formal quality metrics reports.
• Automation Engineering: Develop, debug, and maintain scalable automated test scripts utilizing modern toolsets (Selenium, Cypress, OpenText UFT, or TestComplete), integrating execution pipelines seamlessly into CI/CD workflows.
• Comprehensive Test Execution: Architect and run comprehensive manual and automated test scenarios covering black box, system integration (SIT), regression, unit, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• API & Backend Validation: Configure and execute protocol validations using Postman, writing complex database queries to perform backend data transformations, migration verification, and schema validation.
• Performance & Scale Stressing: Design and deploy multi-tier performance test scripts using JMeter or LoadRunner to isolate infrastructure bottlenecks, testing system scalability under simulated traffic loads.
• Security & Vulnerability Auditing: Conduct baseline application security testing, collaborating with specialized teams to identify and remediate perimeter vulnerabilities.
• Digital Accessibility Governance: Assess, validate, and verify that user interface components strictly meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and AODA compliance regulations.
• Test Data Strategy Management: Build and manage data environment profiles, programmatically generating realistic, sufficient test datasets while maintaining data privacy restrictions.
• Agile Ceremony Collaboration: Actively contribute to Agile/Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives), translating user stories and requirements criteria into detailed, testable specifications.

Skills

Quality Engineering Seniority

Defect triage

Automation depth

Multi-domain testing

Toolchain literacy

Scripting & querying

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

OpenText UFT

TestComplete

Postman

JMeter

LoadRunner

Azure DevOps

Jira/ALM

Job description

We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist to drive the end-to-end quality assurance lifecycle, testing strategy, and defect management for large-scale enterprise systems. In this role, you will lead complex bug triage processes, build and execute structured manual and automated test suites, and perform deep-dive verification across graphical (GUI) and backend data layers. Working closely with cross-functional Agile product squads, you will ensure applications are robust, performant, secure, and fully compliant with data integrity and digital accessibility mandates.

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Duration: 9-month contract

Advantages

• High-Impact Quality Leadership: Command the complete defect resolution and validation lifecycle for highly critical transactional software solutions.
• Diverse Automation Tool Sandbox: Solidify your resume by deploying cutting-edge functional UI test suites alongside robust API, database backend, and performance testing frameworks.
• Cross-Functional Agile Authority: Act as the vital technical link aligning developers, business systems analysts, and project managers on operational readiness.
• Stable Public-Facing Runway: Secure a 9-month engagement within a highly structured corporate landscape with clearly defined paths for delivery.

Responsibilities

• Defect Triage & Lifecycle Ownership: Lead and facilitate comprehensive defect triage sessions with development teams and business units, analyzing system errors down to the root cause, managing priorities, and authoring formal quality metrics reports.
• Automation Engineering: Develop, debug, and maintain scalable automated test scripts utilizing modern toolsets (Selenium, Cypress, OpenText UFT, or TestComplete), integrating execution pipelines seamlessly into CI/CD workflows.
• Comprehensive Test Execution: Architect and run comprehensive manual and automated test scenarios covering black box, system integration (SIT), regression, unit, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• API & Backend Validation: Configure and execute protocol validations using Postman, writing complex database queries to perform backend data transformations, migration verification, and schema validation.
• Performance & Scale Stressing: Design and deploy multi-tier performance test scripts using JMeter or LoadRunner to isolate infrastructure bottlenecks, testing system scalability under simulated traffic loads.
• Security & Vulnerability Auditing: Conduct baseline application security testing, collaborating with specialized teams to identify and remediate perimeter vulnerabilities.
• Digital Accessibility Governance: Assess, validate, and verify that user interface components strictly meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and AODA compliance regulations.
• Test Data Strategy Management: Build and manage data environment profiles, programmatically generating realistic, sufficient test datasets while maintaining data privacy restrictions.
• Agile Ceremony Collaboration: Actively contribute to Agile/Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives), translating user stories and requirements criteria into detailed, testable specifications.

Qualifications

• Core Quality Engineering Seniority: 5 to 10 years of progressive professional experience in software quality assurance, systems testing, and technical test design within complex multi-tier application landscapes.
• Defect Triage & Reporting Mastery: Proven, solid experience isolation-testing software anomalies, managing ticket lifecycles, and producing high-tier defect logs and summary updates (Strictly Required).
• Regression Automation Depth: Extensive, hands-on experience designing and executing automated regression scripts alongside structured manual exploration techniques (Strictly Required).
• Multi-Domain Testing Expertise: Verified background delivering distinct manual and automated verification tracks encompassing black box, security/penetration, backend database queries, and UAT streams.
• Enterprise Toolchain Literacy: High proficiency tracking testing matrices and requirements mapping inside modern tools, explicitly Azure DevOps (or Jira/ALM) ecosystems.
• Scripting & Querying Aptitude: Practical ability to parse code parameters or configure scripts utilizing programming basics (e.g., Python, JavaScript, or Bash) to handle system verification.

Nice to Have

• Prior professional experience delivering software quality assurance frameworks within a Canadian public sector framework or health/business ministry.
• Practical testing or configuration experience with enterprise Contact Centre application ecosystems.
• Exposure to validating Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) package deployments.

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 [e-mail] to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.

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