QA Specialist

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Systems Testing / QA Specialist to plan, organize, and execute comprehensive testing activities for enterprise applications. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing testing strategies, creating and executing test plans, supporting Agile delivery teams, and ensuring high-quality software releases through functional, integration, performance, regression, and user acceptance testing.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide advice on testing strategies, test plans, testing tools, and resource requirements.
  
• Plan and organize testing efforts for large systems in GUI and non-GUI environments.
  
• Execute systems integration testing, specialized testing, and user acceptance testing, including stress testing.
  
• Develop test plans, test scripts, and test cases for various system components.
  
• Collaborate with project teams during analysis, design, development, implementation, and ongoing support activities.
  
• Execute functional, integration, system, and regression testing.
  
• Validate system behavior under various operational scenarios.
  
• Identify, document, and track software defects using defect management tools.
  
• Work closely with development teams to reproduce and resolve issues.
  
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts using industry-standard automation tools.
  
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
  
• Conduct performance, load, and stress testing.
  
• Ensure compliance with Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) standards and related regulations.
  
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, project managers, and stakeholders to clarify requirements and ensure quality outcomes.
  
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
  
• Maintain detailed testing documentation, coverage reports, and quality metrics.
  
• Contribute to user documentation and release notes.
  
• Ensure testing processes align with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
  

Required Qualifications

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Experience planning, organizing, and implementing testing initiatives.
  
• Knowledge of structured software development and testing methodologies.
  
• Experience utilizing automated testing tools and version control systems.
  
• Experience executing functional, non-functional, integration, regression, performance, and load testing.
  
• Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
  
• Strong understanding of quality assurance principles, practices, and frameworks.
  
• Experience creating testing strategies, test plans, test cases, and test data.
  
• Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  
• Experience writing clear, comprehensive, and maintainable test cases.
  
• Experience performing backend and data validation testing using queries.
  
• Understanding of software testing lifecycles and best practices.
  
• Experience with security testing and collaboration with security teams.
  
• Experience developing and managing test data strategies.
  
• Experience validating data integrity, consistency, and accuracy across systems.
  
• Experience developing and executing performance test scripts and analyzing performance bottlenecks.
  

Tools & Technologies

Experience with one or more of the following:

• JIRA
  
• Azure DevOps
  
• ALM
  
• Bugzilla
  
• TestRail
  
• Zephyr
  
• Selenium
  
• Cypress
  
• Postman
  
• JMeter
  
• LoadRunner
  
• Git
  
• CI/CD platforms
  

Agile & DevOps

• Minimum 5 years of experience working within Agile and/or DevOps environments.
  
• Experience preparing testing cases, plans, and strategies aligned with Agile product delivery practices.
  
• Strong knowledge of Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
  
• Experience analyzing business requirements, user stories, user journey maps, use cases, and non-functional requirements.
  
• Experience creating and managing test data to support testing strategies.
  

Public Sector Experience

• Experience working with federal, provincial, broader public sector, or healthcare organizations.
  
• Experience supporting large-scale public sector technology initiatives.
  
• Experience integrating clinical or enterprise information systems.
  
• Knowledge of public sector enterprise architecture principles and documentation standards.
  
• Knowledge of public sector project governance methodologies and SDLC frameworks.
  

Communication & Collaboration

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  
• Strong interpersonal, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills.
  
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with business teams, developers, DBAs, and technical specialists.
  
• Proven analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making abilities.
  
• Strong track record of meeting deadlines and working effectively in team environments.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with at least one programming language.
  
• Experience using information retrieval tools.
  
• Knowledge of testing methods in object-oriented environments.
  
• Understanding of information management principles, concepts, policies, and practices.
  
• Experience testing Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) applications.
  
• Experience developing automated test scripts and automation frameworks.
  

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:

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