
Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Senior
- Toronto, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Duration: 178 Days Contract + Possible ExtensionExperience and Skill Set Requirements:
Skills and competencies required for the assignment:
Quality Assurance Methodology: 55%
- Senior System Tester with 3+ years of experience in process, planning, organizing and implementing testing efforts
- Experience with integration testing strategies for asynchronous and event-driven architectures
- Extensive background in testing system integrations in service-oriented and microservices environments
- Experience with manual testing
- Experience in working with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software.
- Knowledge and experience in testing of the Registry system (ex. Catalyst).
- Knowledge of the systems development cycle (SDLC), software test life cycle (STLC), project management.
- Knowledge of application development methodologies, techniques and methods, structured
- Analysis and design methodology, techniques; structured testing
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps for test case management, pipelines, and defect tracking
- Solid understanding of web service protocols including SOAP, REST, HTTP, XML, and JSON
- Proficient in testing REST and SOAP APIs, security, and data integrity through structured request/response analysis
- Analysis of business requirements and functional designs
- Knowledge of Risk and evidence-based testing
- Analysis of business rules
- Creation of the test cases, traceability matrix
- Defining the expected results
- Creation of test data, test user accounts
- Creation of database queries to select test data and ensure database integrity
- Recording the results of the testing in DevOps/JIRA
- Experience in entry, exit and acceptance testing criteria
- Presentations to project and team members.
- Cross training to project and team members.
- Internet and Intranet, operating systems, databases, network protocols, and data transformation.
- Excellent written communication skills to document and report complex findings from testing projects to project owners.
- Identifying the test scenarios
- Extensive background in testing system integrations in service-oriented and microservices environments
- Solid understanding of web service protocols including SOAP, REST, HTTP, XML, and JSON
- Proficient in testing REST and SOAP APIs, security, and data integrity through structured request/response analysis