Position:QA Specialist

Location:Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Job ID#: RQ00648

Duration: 9 Months

Role Overview

The Senior Systems Testing / QA Specialist is responsible
for ensuring the quality, stability, and reliability of large‑scale enterprise
systems through advanced automated and manual testing practices. This role
focuses heavily on UI and API automation, systems integration testing, and
defect management within an Agile delivery environment.

The specialist will work closely with cross‑functional teams
to validate complex business and technical requirements, build and maintain
robust automation frameworks, and support end‑to‑end testing across multiple
non‑production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• 
  Plan
  and organize testing efforts for User Interface (UI) and API testing,
  including systems integration and functional testing.
• 
  Design,
  develop, execute, and maintain automated test suites for web applications
  and APIs using Java‑based automation frameworks.
• 
  Analyze
  business and technical requirements, user stories, and design documents to
  create test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
• 
  Develop
  and maintain automation testing frameworks and reusable test components.
• 
  Create
  and manage traceability matrices covering all project requirements.
• 
  Generate,
  validate, and manage complex test data using automated tools.
• 
  Log,
  track, and manage defects using standard defect‑tracking tools.
• 
  Prepare
  and deliver test execution and status reports.
• 
  Collaborate
  with QA leads, project managers, business analysts, developers,
  architects, and infrastructure teams.
• 
  Define
  test environment requirements and execute smoke and sanity testing to
  validate deployments.
• 
  Support
  user acceptance testing (UAT) activities.
• 
  Provide
  input into testing effort estimates, test strategies, and test plans.
• 
  Support
  and mentor other QA resources and promote automation best practices.
• 
  Work
  within Agile‑Scrum and DevOps/CI‑CD delivery models.
• 
  Participate
  in knowledge transfer activities and documentation.

Required Qualifications

• 
  Minimum
  7+ years
  of experience in automation testing.
• 
  Advanced,
  hands‑on experience automating UI screens using
  Java and Selenium
  .
• 
  Strong
  ability to write automation scripts from scratch and debug complex
  automation code.
• 
  Advanced
  experience with
  API automation and web services testing
  (e.g.,
  RESTful APIs).
• 
  Experience
  using API testing tools such as Postman, SOAPUI, ReadyAPI, or equivalent.
• 
  Experience
  with
  SQL, ETL processes, and cross‑browser testing
  .
• 
  Experience
  with authentication and authorization testing (certificates, SAML, JWT
  tokens).
• 
  Experience
  working in
  Agile‑Scrum
  environments.
• 
  Strong
  experience with test planning, test case creation, automation execution,
  and reporting.
• 
  Experience
  with defect tracking tools (e.g., JIRA).
• 
  Strong
  analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.

Desired Skills

• 
  Experience
  planning and organizing testing for both large and small systems.
• 
  Experience
  with version control tools such as GitHub.
• 
  Experience
  supporting UAT activities.
• 
  Experience
  testing healthcare systems and HL7 FHIR messages is an asset but not
  mandatory.

Assignment Type

Hybrid (on‑site requirements subject to organizational
policy).

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