Test Lead

Position: Test Lead

Location: Toronto, ON

Job ID#: RQ11743

Duration: 12 Months

Role Overview

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 collaboratively with product teams, analysts, architects, developers, DevOps engineers, security specialists, business representatives, and stakeholders, 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and perform testing activities across enterprise platform capabilities and integrations.

• Define and maintain test strategies, plans, schedules, scenarios, scripts, test data, and reporting.

• Execute manual and automated testing across multiple testing disciplines.

• Develop and maintain UI, API, service, and database test automation where appropriate.

• Coordinate test environments, accounts, tools, test 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 Requirements

• Experience testing large, complex digital platforms, enterprise applications, or public-facing services.

• Experience developing test strategies, plans, scenarios, scripts, procedures, test 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.

• Skills & Qualifications

• 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.

• Mandatory Requirements

• 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.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Previous public sector experience.

• Work Arrangement

• 5 days onsite in Toronto, Ontario.

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