Quality Assurance Specialist

Position: QA Specialist

Location: Toronto, ON

Job ID#: RQ10576

Duration: 12 Months

Role Overview

The QA Specialist contributes to testing activities across the full delivery and product management lifecycle within a large, enterprise-scale initiative. This role focuses on ensuring solution quality through structured testing practices, defect management, and close collaboration with delivery and development teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of test strategies, test plans, test cases, scenarios, scripts, and regression suites
  
• Execute test activities including accessibility testing, data testing, stress/load testing, and functional testing
  
• Track, reconcile, and manage system and functional defects identified during unit and user acceptance testing
  
• Collaborate with project managers, QA leads, and developers to ensure application quality and alignment with delivery timelines
  
• Review functional and design specifications to identify test requirements and ensure complete coverage
  
• Identify and escalate potential quality risks following defined QA processes
  
• Develop, document, and maintain test artifacts including scripts, test data, and validation rules
  
• Execute manual and automated test cases and report results clearly and consistently
  
• Support and lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions
  
• Review user documentation and provide feedback to improve clarity and alignment
  
• Maintain defect logs and facilitate defect triage and prioritization sessions
  
• Prepare realistic test data sets that reflect real-world usage scenarios
  
• Create and execute database queries to extract and validate test data
  
• Facilitate test plan and test case reviews with cross-functional stakeholders
  

Qualifications

Mandatory Requirements

• 8+ years of quality assurance experience, including leading QA efforts and managing defect tracking through collaborative tools
  
• Experience across all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  
• Knowledge of version control systems on one or more platforms
  
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, and communication skills
  
• Ability to understand complex systems and integrate QA processes into enterprise environments
  

Desired Skills and Experience

• Experience planning, organizing, and executing enterprise-level testing initiatives
  
• Knowledge of structured application development and maintenance methodologies
  
• Experience with automated testing tools and data query tools
  
• Hands-on experience executing functional, non-functional, integration, performance, and load testing
  
• Experience supporting UAT and creating comprehensive testing documentation
  
• Familiarity with enterprise applications, cloud-based solutions, and commercial off-the-shelf platforms
  
• Strong collaboration skills with a demonstrated ability to meet delivery deadlines
  

About Symbiotic Digital

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