Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Intermediate

Job Title: Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Intermediate

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Work Model: Onsite

Duration: 7 months

Extension: 1 Time

Submission Deadline: 2026-07-22, 12:00 p.m. EST

Must Haves

• Solid experience with triaging defects, participating and leading triage meetings, and producing defect summary reports.
• Extensive experience performing regression testing manually and automation scripts
• 5-10 years of experience with different automation and manual testing types: black box testing, penetration testing, security testing, system testing, unit testing, AODA and UAT testing
• Extensive experience with preparing detailed test cases to test functionality
• Hands on experience with various defect tracking tools such as Azure DevOps

Description / Responsibilities / Skills

Description

• DEEP is currently undergoing a contract transition with its new MSP, Bell Canada.
• FFS resources are essential for the modernization and integration of the EP, as well as for supporting ongoing project delivery for OPS program area ministries for FY 2026-27.
• FFS resources will be engaged for a period of up to 11 months, from June 3, 2026, to March 31, 2027.

Responsibilities/Assignment Deliverables

• Provide advice on the testing strategy, test plans, the selection of testing tools, and the identification of resources required for testing plans.
• Plan and organize testing efforts for large systems in GUI and non-GUI environments, including execution of systems integration tests, specialized tests, and UAT.
• Work with the testing lead and IT lead of each project as well as the project team members in the analysis, design, development, implementation and ongoing support.
• Excellent knowledge and hands on experience of SQL queries for validating/creating/extracting test data.
• Develop and execute automation testing on multiple solutions.

Deliverables

• Provide advice on testing strategy, test plans, selection of testing tools, and identification of resources required.
• Develop test plans, test scripts and test cases and execute them against various components.
• Plan and organize testing efforts for large systems in GUI and non-GUI environments.
• Develop and execute automation testing on multiple solutions.
• Excellent knowledge and hands on experience of SQL queries for validating/creating/extracting test data.

Experience & Skill Set Requirements

Experience & Skill Set 30%

• Experience creating test cases and test scenarios in Azure DevOps
• 5+ years developing automation test scripts with multiple Tools
• Experience performing Load Test
• 5-10 years of hands-on experience Performing automation testing and developing test scripts
• Experience with Screen Readers, Syntax Checking tools, Colour-Contract tools, browser tools/toolbars.
• Extensive experience performing functional and regression testing through manual testing and automation.
• Experience with HTML 5, WAI-ARIA tags, UX and front-end development
• Ability to provide coding, system and architecture recommendations to ensure application is Accessible
• Experience with development tools (Java, Angular JS) and ability to provide coding recommendation for Accessibility remediation
• Experience with User Experience Interface design and architecture.
• Bi-lingual testing experience is a strong asset

QA experience: 35%

• 5 10 years of experience with DevOps/Agile/Scrum Methodology working with Web and Mobile technologies, as well as different OS/Platforms
• Solid experience creating Test Strategy/Test Plan document
• 5-10 years of hands- on experience with BRD: analyzing business requirements and creating test data requirements
• Proven experience with identifying bugs in software; excellent ability to document and explain bugs/issues to Dev and business teams
• Experienced in Test Automation, preparing scripts/updating existing scripts, run the scrips and capture results.
• 5-10 years of hands-on experience with system testing, system integration testing
• Extensive experience in Quality Assurance preparing Test Plans, Test Cases and executing and monitoring unit, integration and UAT testing while working directly with clients
• Manual system testing and integration testing experience including creating test cases and test plans

Automation Testing/Technical experience: 35%

• Experience developing automation testing scripts
• Performing functional and regression testing with multiple automation tools
• Experience generating test data through DB queries/DB model analysis