senior test lead.

We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Test Lead for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will take on a premier quality assurance and testing leadership capacity within complex application development, cloud platforms, and quality engineering streams, specializing in developing end-to-end test strategies, automated test scripts, and defect management frameworks.

As a principal test lead, you will bridge the gap between product management, business analysis, and cross-functional engineering teams. Operating within an Agile distributed model and a hybrid work arrangement, you will lead functional, non-functional, integration, ETL data migration, performance, and accessibility testing across web-based applications and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platforms. This position demands a seasoned QA authority who can author automated scripts, conduct root-cause defect analysis, enforce accessibility standards, and ensure total solution quality across the software development lifecycle.

Location: Toronto, ON

Assignment Type: Hybrid (3 days per week onsite)

Contract Duration: 4-month contract (with potential for extension)

Advantages
End-to-End Test Ownership: Lead quality assurance strategy across unit, functional, integration, regression, performance, load, and accessibility testing.

Modern Cloud & Automation Stack: Deepen technical depth using Azure DevOps, Katalon Studio, Java-based UI/backend automation, and SQL/PLSQL tools.

High-Impact Modernization Scope: Drive QA for enterprise cloud platforms, data migration ETL pipelines, and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications.

Balanced Hybrid Model: Benefit from a collaborative working structure combining onsite teamwork in Toronto with remote flexibility.

Responsibilities
Collaborate with product managers, product owners, and technical architects to formulate comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and acceptance criteria.

Design, build, execute, and maintain automated test scripts and test cases for both front-end user interfaces and back-end database/API environments.

Lead and execute various testing phases, including functional, systems integration, regression, smoke, performance, load, stress, and security testing.

Develop and execute dedicated Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) test plans using specialized tools such as JAWS and NVDA.

Formulate end-to-end data migration and ETL test scenarios, using SQL/PLSQL tools to query, extract, and validate target database data.

Manage the complete defect lifecycle using Azure DevOps, including identifying, tracing, isolating, replicating defects, and conducting root-cause analysis.

Plan and generate robust test data required for all testing phases, validating sprint increments against defined business user stories.

Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities, facilitating requirements walkthroughs, sprint reviews, and post-implementation release testing.

Author concise QA completion reports, defect trend analyses, and quality metrics to communicate release readiness to stakeholders.

Qualifications
Core Requirements & Quality Leadership
Testing & QA Experience: Extensive experience planning, organizing, and executing end-to-end testing efforts across large-scale, complex web applications and COTS platforms.

Programming & Automation: Hands-on experience with at least one programming language (such as Java) and coding automated test scripts using frameworks like Katalon Studio or equivalent.

Database & Querying Skills: Proven proficiency writing SQL/PLSQL queries to extract, review, and validate database content and ETL pipelines.

Cloud & Agile Tools: Hands-on experience working in enterprise cloud environments (e.g., Azure) and using Azure DevOps for test case execution, defect tracking, and sprint management.

Accessibility Compliance: Demonstrated experience developing and executing AODA compliance test plans using accessibility validation tools (e.g., JAWS, NVDA).

Information Management: Solid understanding of Information Management principles, object-oriented concepts, and CASE/data query tools.

Preferred Assets
Business Analysis & User Stories: Experience participating in requirements workshops, user story development, and gap analysis for business modernization projects.

Non-Functional Testing Tooling: Familiarity with performance load testing tools, vulnerability scanners, and fail-over testing methodologies.

Soft Skills & Collaboration
Analytical Problem Solving: Superior diagnostic and root-cause analysis capabilities to troubleshoot, prioritize, and isolate complex technical issues.

Communication & Negotiation: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with strong collaboration and negotiation capabilities to work effectively across distributed Agile teams.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Test Lead" 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!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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