Test Lead

Position: Test Lead

Role Overview

Leads and performs quality assurance and testing for
enterprise platform features, integrations, releases, and onboarded services.
The role develops risk-based test strategies, plans, scenarios, scripts, data,
automation, traceability, quality metrics, and completion reporting across
functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance,
security, API, database, and user acceptance testing.

Working collaboratively with product teams, analysts,
architects, developers, DevOps engineers, security specialists, business
representatives, and stakeholders, the Senior Systems Testing / QA Specialist
coordinates environments and test readiness, identifies and manages defects,
and verifies that approved requirements and quality criteria have been met.

The role provides evidence-based release readiness
assessments, communicates residual risks, and helps establish repeatable
testing practices and automation that improve coverage, reliability, delivery
speed, and confidence in enterprise platform releases.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead
  and perform testing activities across enterprise platform capabilities and
  integrations.
• Define
  and maintain test strategies, plans, schedules, scenarios, scripts, test
  data, and reporting.
• Execute
  manual and automated testing across multiple testing disciplines.
• Develop
  and maintain UI, API, service, and database test automation where
  appropriate.
• Coordinate
  test environments, accounts, tools, test data, and supporting resources.
• Maintain
  requirements traceability and test coverage reporting.
• Lead
  defect triage and monitor defects through resolution and closure.
• Validate
  accessibility, security, performance, reliability, and integration
  requirements.
• Report
  quality indicators, testing progress, outstanding defects, and release
  risks.
• Provide
  evidence-based recommendations on production readiness.

Experience Requirements

• Experience
  testing large, complex digital platforms, enterprise applications, or
  public-facing services.
• Experience
  developing test strategies, plans, scenarios, scripts, procedures, test
  data, and completion reports.
• Experience
  conducting functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility,
  performance, security, API, database, and user acceptance testing.
• Experience
  designing and maintaining automated tests for user interfaces, APIs,
  services, and data components.
• Experience
  testing cloud-based microservices, distributed applications, and
  integrations across multiple systems.
• Experience
  establishing test environments, test accounts, test data, entry and exit
  criteria, and schedules.
• Experience
  managing defects through identification, triage, prioritization,
  resolution, retesting, and closure.
• Experience
  maintaining requirements traceability, coverage reporting, dashboards, and
  quality metrics.
• Experience
  assessing release readiness and communicating residual quality risks.

Skills & Qualifications

Testing Strategy and Execution (35%)

• Experience
  planning and executing end-to-end testing for complex digital solutions.
• Experience
  with functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility,
  performance, and acceptance testing.

Test Automation and Technical Testing (25%)

• Experience
  automating UI, API, service, or database tests.
• Experience
  testing cloud applications, microservices, and system integrations.

Defect Management and Quality Reporting (25%)

• Experience
  managing defects, traceability, coverage, metrics, and release readiness
  assessments.

Communication and Collaboration (15%)

• Excellent
  analytical, reporting, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability
  to coordinate business and technical teams during testing and defect
  resolution.

Mandatory Requirements

• Experience
  planning and executing end-to-end testing for complex digital solutions.
• Experience
  with functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility,
  performance, and acceptance testing.
• Experience
  automating UI, API, service, or database tests.
• Experience
  testing cloud applications, microservices, and system integrations.
• Ability
  to coordinate business and technical teams during testing and defect
  resolution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous
  public sector experience.

Work Arrangement

• 5
  days onsite in Toronto, Ontario.

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