senior systems testing/qa specialist.

We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist to drive the strategic planning, execution, and team leadership of comprehensive quality assurance workflows for an enterprise delivery and product lifecycle management initiative. In this role, you will take full operational ownership of building master test strategies, managing continuous integration environments, and directing distributed testing teams. Operating as a senior quality champion, you will bridge the gap between business stakeholders, development vendors, and project managers to orchestrate structural triage loops, validate complex data sets, and eliminate technical defects across cloud, SaaS, and Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) application platforms.

Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite, 7.25 hours per day between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM)

Duration: 10-month contract.

Advantages
Commanding Team Ownership: Lead full-lifecycle enterprise quality governance tracks while mentoring and supervising junior validation analysts.

Modern Tooling Architecture: Master advanced test lifecycle management and code synchronization workflows directly inside an integrated Microsoft DevOps engine.

Multi-Platform Horizon: Broaden your professional engineering profile by validating a diverse technology landscape crossing core web components, custom scripts, and enterprise SaaS models.

Structured Onsite Routine: Benefit from highly predictable, standard daytime working hours within a professional, enterprise-level project setting.

Responsibilities
QA Leadership & Strategy Design: Lead and mentor QA teams while designing comprehensive test strategies, regression models, coverage maps, and final testing summary reports across multiple project lifecycle phases.

Test Orchestration & Scheduling: Schedule and manage all testing streams—including functional verification, system integration testing, non-functional performance benchmarks, and localized accessibility (AODA) audits.

DevOps & Version Control Governance: Configure, maintain, and manage automated test configurations, deployment artifacts, and version control matrices within Microsoft Azure DevOps platforms.

Defect Lifecycle & Triage Management: Establish and run structured defect triage sessions with developers, business resources, and external vendors to track, prioritize, and monitor software bugs through to successful resolution.

Advanced Test Data Engineering: Formulate and manage realistic, real-world mock data sets and execute structural database queries to validate data integrity across various application modules.

User Acceptance (UAT) Facilitation: Partner directly with corporate clients to lead initial UAT sessions, providing structured onboarding, testing guidance, and defect logging blueprints for business users.

Cross-Functional Specification Auditing: Review abstract functional designs, design specifications, and user guides to flag documentation inconsistencies and optimize overall solution clarity.

Change Control & Status Telemetry: Track, manage, and communicate software change requests, defect logs, and platform quality metrics directly to project managers and steering squads.

Qualifications
Core QA Seniority & Leadership: Minimum of 8+ years of progressive professional experience in software testing and quality assurance, including an established background leading QA teams and managing multi-stakeholder defect-tracking systems.

Platform & Core Stack Literacy: Hands-on experience testing and validating systems built over enterprise architectures, including SharePoint networks, Web Services, HTML layers, JavaScript/VBScript components, COTS systems, and cloud/SaaS software.

Microsoft DevOps Mastery: Proven knowledge and hands-on experience utilizing and configuring Microsoft Azure DevOps for work item optimization, version control, release tracking, and test plan management.

Comprehensive SDLC Fluency: In-depth, practical understanding of all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), structured software development methodologies, and entry/exit criteria rules.

Data Verification Capabilities: Demonstrated capability to create and execute database queries to extract, isolate, and validate background application data streams.

UAT Strategy Orchestration: Proven experience building test cases, organizing test datasets, and guiding non-technical business users through User Acceptance Testing cycles.

Soft Skills: Elite analytical problem-solving, organizational resilience, and collaborative agility, with a verified history of running cross-functional defect triage groups and articulating complex system blockers concisely.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

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