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QA Specialist
@ Symbiotic Digital
Ontario
Overview
Symbiotic Digital is hiring a QA specialist on an 11-month contract in Toronto, Ontario. The role plans, executes and supports testing of complex enterprise applications and system integrations, including manual, API and UAT work. The work is onsite, Monday to Friday, during standard business hours.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and execute system, integration and UAT testing
- Write test plans, test cases, test scripts and test data
- Create testing documentation and traceability matrices
- Record test results and defects in testing tools
- Collaborate with project teams and IT stakeholders
Requirements summary:
- Hands-on manual and API testing experience
- Experience with integration testing of microservices and event-driven systems
- Knowledge of REST, SOAP, HTTP, XML and JSON
- Hands-on Azure DevOps or JIRA experience
- Strong analytical and communication skills
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-12
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-13
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-13
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Quality assurance |
| Hours per week | 40 |
| Schedule | day |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Encouraged to apply | Indigenous peoples |
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Symbiotic Digital
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Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do for you. What We Do: We provide access to the IT Experts and Recruitment Solutions needed to help customers achieve their "Digital Transformation' goals." We serve customers in two ways, we provide: 1) Digital Experts: Bright Minds That Produce Proven Results o Symbiotic Digital utilizes a business system that enables us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging Business and IT problems. We provide the ‘Bright Minds’ that produce ‘Proven Results.’ o We are an extension of our client’s IT & Business contractor capability providing our services as needed as a preferred Vendor or Vendor of Record. 2) Recruitment: Find The Right People You Need o Symbiotic Digital uses proven recruitment processes to help companies find the key staff required to grow their businesses. Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. Proven Experts equals Guaranteed Results. Project success is critical; Our sharp, qualified, experienced and able Expert consultants save our Customers money, time, and contribute to a peak performing project team. We are a 100% Indigenous owned and operated business.
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- Reported office locations
- 1075 North Service Road W., Suite 100, Oakville, Ontario L6M 2G2, CA
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- Symbiotic Digital
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Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do for you. What We Do: We provide access to the IT Experts and Recruitment Solutions needed to help customers achieve their "Digital Transformation' goals." We serve customers in two ways, we provide: 1) Digital Experts: Bright Minds That Produce Proven Results o Symbiotic Digital…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Staffing and Recruiting |
| Company size | 2-10 employees |
| Headquarters | Oakville, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 1998 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 57 |
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Position: QA Specialist
Location: Toronto, ON
Job ID#: RQ11865
Duration: 11 Months
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Systems Testing / QA Specialist to support testing initiatives for complex enterprise applications and system integrations. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, organizing, executing, and supporting testing activities across various phases of the software development lifecycle. This role requires hands-on experience with manual testing, API testing, integration testing, and test management practices within enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide advice on testing strategies, test plans, testing tools, and resource requirements.
- Plan, organize, and execute testing efforts for large-scale GUI and non-GUI systems.
- Conduct systems integration testing, specialized testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Develop and execute test plans, test scripts, test cases, and test data.
- Collaborate with project teams, testing leads, and IT stakeholders throughout analysis, design, development, implementation, and support phases.
- Support functional, non-functional, integration, load, and performance testing activities.
- Participate in and support user acceptance testing activities.
- Create testing documentation including testing strategies, test plans, test cases, test data, and traceability matrices.
- Analyze business requirements, functional designs, and business rules.
- Define expected test results and maintain testing evidence.
- Create test user accounts and test data required for validation activities.
- Develop database queries to support test data validation and ensure data integrity.
- Record testing results, defects, and test execution activities in testing management tools.
- Participate in presentations and knowledge-sharing activities with project and team members.
- Provide cross-training support where required.
Required Qualifications
General Skills
- Experience planning, organizing, and implementing testing efforts.
- Knowledge of structured methodologies for application development, implementation, and maintenance.
- Experience using CASE tools and data query tools to support testing activities.
- Experience with automated testing tools and version control systems.
- Experience executing functional, non-functional, and systems integration testing.
- Experience supporting and participating in UAT activities.
- Understanding of quality assurance principles, methodologies, and best practices.
- Experience creating testing strategies, test plans, test cases, and test data.
- Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively within a team environment and meet project deadlines.
Technical Skills
- Experience in process, planning, organizing, and implementing testing efforts.
- Experience with integration testing strategies for asynchronous and event-driven architectures.
- Experience testing service-oriented and microservices-based environments.
- Strong manual testing experience.
- Experience working with Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) applications.
- Knowledge of SDLC, STLC, and project management methodologies.
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps for test case management, pipelines, and defect tracking.
- Strong understanding of REST, SOAP, HTTP, XML, and JSON.
- Experience testing APIs, security controls, and data integrity.
- Experience with risk-based and evidence-based testing approaches.
- Experience creating test cases, traceability matrices, test data, and test accounts.
- Experience recording test results and defects in Azure DevOps and/or JIRA.
- Experience establishing entry, exit, and acceptance criteria for testing activities.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Experience with registry-based systems.
- Experience coding automated test scripts.
- Knowledge of at least one programming language.
- Experience using information retrieval tools.
- Understanding of testing in object-oriented environments.
- Knowledge of Information Management principles and practices.
- Knowledge of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) standards and regulations.
- Experience testing both large and small enterprise systems.
- Strong written communication skills for documenting and reporting testing findings.
Work Arrangement
- Onsite role.
- Standard business hours, Monday to Friday.
- Toronto, Ontario.
About Symbiotic Digital.
Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.) We serve customers in two ways, we provide:
- Digital Experts: IT Consulting expertise. Bright Minds That Produce Proven Results
- Recruitment: Find The Right People You Need
Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100% Indigenous owned company.
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