Test Lead – Senior

Job Description

Job Title: RQ11122 Test Lead Senior
Client: Government Services Integration Cluster
Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement

Location: 222 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario
Work Model: 5 Days Onsite

Description / Responsibilities / Skills

Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of test strategy, plans, scenarios, scripts, or procedures for testing

Acts as a quality advocate throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), promoting and implementing 'shift-left' testing practices by embedding quality activities into every phase from requirements gathering to deployment.

Leads the architectural design, development, and continuous improvement of robust, scalable, and maintainable test automation frameworks (e.g., UI, API, database) using industry-standard tools and programming languages.

Directs the strategy for test data management, encompassing the generation, provisioning, and anonymization of realistic and compliant test data across diverse environments.

Mentors, coaches, and develops the technical and professional skills of QA team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and knowledge sharing.

Proactively identifies, assesses, and mitigates quality-related risks throughout the project lifecycle, collaborating with stakeholders to prioritize and address potential issues.

Develops strategies for integrating security testing into the testing lifecycle, ensuring adherence to security best practices and compliance requirements.

Designs and implements testing methodologies tailored for distributed systems.

General Skills

Experience co-ordinating the test strategy and plan with project managers and others

Experience writing and reviewing a test strategy for the project, and test policy for the organization.

Experience contributing the testing perspective to other project activities, such as development, integration testing, etc.

Experience planning the tests - considering the context and understanding the test objectives and risk - including selecting test approaches, estimating the time, effort and cost of testing, acquiring resources, defining test levels, cycles and planning incident management

Experience initiating the specification, preparation, implementation and execution of tests, monitor the test results and check the exit criteria

Experience adapting planning based on test results and progress(tweaking the plan) and take necessary actions to compensate for problems

Experience introducing suitable metrics for measuring test progress and evaluating the quality of the testing and product.

Experience providing input to test automation strategy, test automation framework roadmap

Experience selecting tools to support testing and organize any training in tool use for testers

Experience coordinating usage and assignment of test environment with all stakeholders.

Experience writing test summary reports based on the information gathered during testing.

Experience executing full lifecycle software development

Experience programming well-designed, testable, efficient code

Experience creating / producing specifications and determine operational feasibility

Experience leading / providing guidance to team members

A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Core Skills and Experience - 40 %

10+ years of experience in software testing in enterprise-level IT environments and large-scale systems

Hands-on working experience in manual testing and automated testing tools and frameworks.

Deep understanding of Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall testing methodologies.

Extensive experience with AODA testing and compliance

Experience creating and maintaining test strategies, test cases and scripts, as well as test reports.

Experience in test automation tools such as Selenium or Postman for API testing.

Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar.

Experience with defect tracking tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar.

Proven expertise in end-to-end testing of complex systems, ensuring coverage of all functional and non-functional requirements.

Knowledge of QA compliance standards and security testing best practices.

Technical Skills and Experience - 35%

Strong understanding of databases such as SQL, Oracle.

Knowledge of cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS.

Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integration tools like Jenkins, Git, or GitLab.

Soft Skills- 20%

Strong communication skills; both written and verbal

Excellent interpersonal relations and demonstrated ability to work with others effectively in teams

Demonstrated ability to work with functional and technical teams Demonstrated ability to participate in a large team and work closely with other individual team members

Proven analytical skills and systematic problem solving

Strong ability to work under pressure, work with aggressive timelines, and be adaptive to change

Public sector Experience- 5%

OPS quality assurance standard and practices.

Must Have:

10+ years of experience in software testing in enterprise-level IT environments and large-scale systems

Hands-on working experience in manual testing and automated testing tools and frameworks.

Experience in test automation tools such as Selenium or Postman for API testing.

Experience with defect tracking tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar.

Strong understanding of databases such as SQL, Oracle.