QA Specialist

Position:QA Specialist 

Location:Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Job ID#: RQ00648

Duration: 9 Months

Role Overview

The Senior Systems Testing / QA Specialist is responsible for ensuring the quality, stability, and reliability of large‑scale enterprise systems through advanced automated and manual testing practices. This role focuses heavily on UI and API automation, systems integration testing, and defect management within an Agile delivery environment.

The specialist will work closely with cross‑functional teams to validate complex business and technical requirements, build and maintain robust automation frameworks, and support end‑to‑end testing across multiple non‑production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and organize testing efforts for User Interface (UI) and API testing, including systems integration and functional testing.
  


• Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated test suites for web applications and APIs using Java‑based automation frameworks.
  


• Analyze business and technical requirements, user stories, and design documents to create test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
  


• Develop and maintain automation testing frameworks and reusable test components.
  


• Create and manage traceability matrices covering all project requirements.
  


• Generate, validate, and manage complex test data using automated tools.
  


• Log, track, and manage defects using standard defect‑tracking tools.
  


• Prepare and deliver test execution and status reports.
  


• Collaborate with QA leads, project managers, business analysts, developers, architects, and infrastructure teams.
  


• Define test environment requirements and execute smoke and sanity testing to validate deployments.
  


• Support user acceptance testing (UAT) activities.
  


• Provide input into testing effort estimates, test strategies, and test plans.
  


• Support and mentor other QA resources and promote automation best practices.
  


• Work within Agile‑Scrum and DevOps/CI‑CD delivery models.
  


• Participate in knowledge transfer activities and documentation.
  

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years of experience in automation testing.
  


• Advanced, hands‑on experience automating UI screens using Java and Selenium.
  


• Strong ability to write automation scripts from scratch and debug complex automation code.
  


• Advanced experience with API automation and web services testing (e.g., RESTful APIs).
  


• Experience using API testing tools such as Postman, SOAPUI, ReadyAPI, or equivalent.
  


• Experience with SQL, ETL processes, and cross‑browser testing.
  


• Experience with authentication and authorization testing (certificates, SAML, JWT tokens).
  


• Experience working in Agile‑Scrum environments.
  


• Strong experience with test planning, test case creation, automation execution, and reporting.
  


• Experience with defect tracking tools (e.g., JIRA).
  


• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
  

Desired Skills

• Experience planning and organizing testing for both large and small systems.
  


• Experience with version control tools such as GitHub.
  


• Experience supporting UAT activities.
  


• Experience testing healthcare systems and HL7 FHIR messages is an asset but not mandatory.
  

Assignment Type

Hybrid (on‑site requirements subject to organizational policy).

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