Overview
Senior Quality Assurance Tester Jobs in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at LeverageTek Staffing Solutions
Title: Senior Quality Assurance Tester
Company: LeverageTek Staffing Solutions
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
LeverageTek is actively seeking a Senior QA Tester for a 12-month contract with its Ottawa-based customer
Work Location
- The successful candidate will be required to work remotely. Hybrid arrangements may be considered for candidates located in Ottawa or Toronto.
Key Tasks
- Define and own end-to-end test strategies, plans, and approaches aligned with project milestones
- Ensure alignment with quality standards, governance, and risk controls
- Plan and coordinate system, integration, regression, and data validation testing
- Design, develop, execute, and maintain manual and automated test cases
- Implement and enhance test automation frameworks (API, UI, data-driven testing)
- Validate integrations between the SaaS application, internal platforms, and upstream/downstream systems
- Identify, log, prioritize, and track defects through resolution
- Collaborate closely with developers, vendors, and product owners to resolve issues
- Provide clear quality, risk, and readiness reporting to delivery leadership
- Validate credit data, decision rules, scoring outputs, and data lineage
- Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and completeness across environments
- Support testing of data migrations and parallel run scenarios where applicable
- Support release readiness, go-live validation, and post-deployment verification
- Contribute to continuous improvement of QA practices and tooling
- Ensure testing artifacts meet audit and documentation expectations
Key Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years of experience in Quality Assurance and Testing for enterprise systems
- Strong experience with test strategy and test plan development
- Proven experience in Agile/Scrum delivery environments
- Hands-on integration and API testing experience
- Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, or similar)
- Demonstrated defect management and quality metrics experience
Qualifications
- Experience testing data-intensive and rules-based systems
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Ability to work independently in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
- Experience in financial services, risk systems, or regulated environments
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology
- Hands-on integration and API testing experience
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (ADO), Postman/REST API testing, and SQL for data validation
- Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, or similar)
Assets
- Demonstrated defect management and quality metrics experience
- Knowledge of end-to-end SDLC and CI/CD practices
- Bilingual (English/French) considered an asset
Compensation Hourly Rate Negotiable This is an existing position vacancy.
About LeverageTek Staffing Solutions
- Founded in 2003, LeverageTek provides end-to-end, cross-functional staffing solutions throughout North America. We are a trusted partner to leading private and public sector organizations and experts in talent solutions that create optimal business outcomes.
- Don't let our name fool you. Our roots are in technology, but we are also a proven leader in accounting and finance, sales and marketing, human resources, supply chain, and legal talent acquisition. We offer contract and permanent staffing, executive search, talent mapping, management consultancy, and contractor payroll management.
- LeverageTek is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a welcoming and inclusive environment in service to one another, our customers, the candidates we represent, and the diverse communities we call home. We do all of this with kindness, empathy, and respect for each other. LeverageTek is committed to employment equity and creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, and marital status.
- Accessibility accommodations are available upon request.
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