QA Specialist

Position: QA Specialist

Location: Toronto, ON

Job ID#: RQ11637

Duration: 12 Months

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Systems Testing / QA Specialist to support complex enterprise application testing initiatives. The successful candidate will be responsible for executing comprehensive quality assurance activities, developing testing artifacts, validating integrations, and ensuring high-quality solution delivery across multiple systems and platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform

• functional and non-functional system testing for interfaces, core

• applications, extensions, enhancements, and defect resolutions.

• Test

• bug fixes and application changes based on identified defects and critical

• system updates.

• Create complete system testing documentation and artifacts, including:

• Test

• strategies

• Test

• plans

• Test

• cases

• Test

• scripts

• Automated

• test scripts

• Test

• result reports

• Defect

• logs

• Transform

• business, functional, and technical requirements into effective test

• planning and execution activities.

• Create

• and manage test data required for testing activities.

• Analyze

• testing results and perform retesting until expected outcomes are

• achieved.

• Participate

• in walkthroughs, reviews, and user validation sessions.

• Recommend

• improvements to ensure acceptable testing outcomes and support

• implementation readiness.

• Collaborate

• closely with developers, architects, product owners, and project

• stakeholders to establish effective testing approaches.

• Investigate,

• track, and resolve testing and production issues while maintaining service

• quality and integrity.

• Required Qualifications

• Public Sector & Healthcare Experience

• 5+

• years of experience working with federal, provincial, broader public

• sector, or healthcare organizations.

• Knowledge

• of public sector enterprise architecture artifacts, processes, and best

• practices.

• Experience

• producing technical documentation aligned with industry standards.

• Knowledge

• of project management methodologies and frameworks.

• Experience

• supporting health-related technology projects.

• Understanding

• of public sector IT governance, approval processes, and delivery

• methodologies.

• Experience

• working on large, complex enterprise technology initiatives.

• QA & Systems Testing Experience

• 7+

• years of experience as a Systems Testing / QA Specialist.

• Experience

• leading testing activities and providing guidance to junior testers.

• Strong

• understanding of testing methodologies in object-oriented environments.

• Experience across all phases of system testing including:

• Test

• strategy

• Tool

• selection

• Test

• planning

• Test

• case development

• Test

• data preparation

• Manual

• testing

• Automated

• testing

• Defect

• management

• Experience testing:

• Commercial

• Off-The-Shelf (COTS) solutions

• Web

• applications

• APIs

• HL7-FHIR

• web services

• RESTful

• services

• XML/JSON

• integrations

• Reporting

• solutions

• Integration

• components and enhancements

• Experience

• testing security components utilizing SAML and JWT.

• Experience

• creating comprehensive testing artifacts and documentation.

• Experience

• developing automated test scripts using tools such as Selenium.

• Experience with API testing and interface validation tools including:

• SOAP

• UI

• Postman

• Similar

• testing tools

• Strong

• SQL and data validation experience.

• Experience

• performing Accessibility Testing aligned with WCAG standards.

• Experience

• with accessibility testing tools supporting regulatory compliance

• requirements.

• Experience

• producing performance, security, and defect reporting documentation.

• Experience testing Business Intelligence (BI) solutions including:

• Data

• integration

• Reporting

• validation

• Dashboard

• validation

• Data

• integrity verification

• Experience

• validating production deployments and release implementations.

• Experience

• executing cross-system integration testing.

• Experience

• reviewing business and technical requirements from a testing perspective.

• Experience

• working within Agile, traditional, and DevOps delivery environments.

• Proficiency

• in at least one programming language.

• Strong

• knowledge of all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

• Ability

• to identify issues early through testing-focused reviews of project

• documentation.

• Knowledge

• of information management principles and best practices.

• Defect Management & Reporting

• 7+ years of experience with:

• Identifying

• and documenting issues and risks

• Maintaining

• defect logs and summary reports

• Tracking

• project and testing activities

• Participating

• in cross-functional meetings

• Prioritizing

• testing activities based on risk and business priorities

• Managing

• testing challenges related to environments and test data

• Participating

• in walkthroughs, reviews, and triage sessions

• Experience using tools such as:

• Jira

• Confluence

• TestRail

• General Skills

• Proven

• technical leadership capabilities.

• Strong

• analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent

• decision-making abilities.

• Strong

• interpersonal, written, verbal, and presentation skills.

• Demonstrated

• critical thinking capabilities.

• Strong

• listening and issue-resolution skills.

• Effective

• stakeholder engagement and relationship management.

• Excellent

• customer service and consulting skills.

• Detail-oriented

• with strong organizational and multitasking abilities.

• Proven

• ability to meet strict deadlines in fast-paced environments.

• 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 do

• for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.) We serve customers in two ways, we provide:

• Digital

• Experts: IT Consulting expertise. Bright Minds That Produce Proven Results

• Recruitment:

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• Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital

• provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff

• needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most

• reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them

• staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our

• proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100%

• Indigenous owned company.

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