Overview
RQ10852 – Systems Testing/QA Specialist – Senior Jobs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at S M Software Solutions Inc
Title: RQ10852 – Systems Testing/QA Specialist – Senior
Company: S M Software Solutions Inc
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
If you are interested kindly send the following documents to [email protected] by Tuesday, Apr 21, 11:00 AM EST if that interests you and matches your profile.
- Updated Resume in word format (Mandatory)
- References (Mandatory)
- Expected hourly rate (Mandatory)
- Visa Status (Mandatory)
- LinkedIn ID (Mandatory)
Client: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement
Work Location: 40 St. Claire W, Toronto, Ontario, Onsite
Estimated Start Date: 2026-04-27
Estimated End Date: 2027-03-31
#Business Days: 190.00
Extension: Probable after the initial mandate
Hours per day or Week: 7.25 hours per day
Security Level: No Clearance Required
Must Have
- 8+ years of QA testing using agile, hybrid and waterfall SDLC methodologies.
- Provide comprehensive and detailed hands-on testing covering cloud-based Java technologies including JSON, RESTful Web Services, HTML5.
- Develop plans, execute testing and produce testing artefacts providing assurance of software quality.
- Documenting errors and defect tracking management
- Creation and implementation test strategy, plans for testing software, debugging code, and enhancing the usability of programs.
- Proficient in the use of SQL in supporting testing activities
- Experience with AODA testing and use of related tools
- Experience in project management and QA approaches
- Working knowledge of testing tools such Azure DevOps, Postman
- Knowledge to design and ability to write automation test scripts
- Working knowledge of test management software tools
Role Overview
Responsibilities
- Lead the design of test strategy, plans, scenarios, scripts, or procedures for testing
General Skills
- Experience coordinating the test strategy and plan with project managers and others
- Experience writing and reviewing a test strategy for the project, and test policy for the organization.
- Experience contributing the testing perspective to other project activities, such as development, integration testing, etc.
- Experience planning the tests – considering the context and understanding the test objectives and risk – including selecting test approaches, estimating the time, effort and cost of testing, acquiring resources, defining test levels, cycles and planning incident management
- Experience initiating the specification, preparation, implementation and execution of tests, monitor the test results and check the exit criteria
- Experience adapting planning based on test results and progress (tweaking the plan) and take necessary actions to compensate for problems
- Experience introducing suitable metrics for measuring test progress and evaluating the quality of the testing and product.
- Experience providing input to test automation strategy, test automation framework roadmap
- Experience selecting tools to support testing and organize any training in tool use for testers
- Experience coordinating usage and assignment of test environment with all stakeholders.
- Experience writing test summary reports based on the information gathered during testing.
- Experience executing full lifecycle software development
- Experience programming well-designed, testable, efficient code
- Experience creating / producing specifications and determine operational feasibility
- Experience leading / providing guidance to team members
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
Experience And Skill Set Requirements
Mandatory Technical Skills and Experience – (70%)
Soft Skills and Experience – (15%)
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Professional team player with ability to liaison with non-technical and technical team members as it relates to QA testing.
- Ability to understand technical and business/customer requirements in ensuring full scope of testing is captured and executed.
- Strong organizational skills
- Critical time and work management
Desirable Technical Skills and Experience – (10%)
- Testing experience with information systems related to soil management
- Working knowledge of GIS spatial datasets
- Working knowledge of programming scripting languages such as python.
- Engineering or Computer Science background degree
Public Sector Experience – (5%)
Note
- Candidate is required to come in office 5 days a week
