Posted 19 days ago
Senior Test Lead
@ Symbiotic Digital
Ontario
Overview
Symbiotic Digital is hiring a Senior Test Lead on a 12-month contract in Toronto, onsite five days a week. The role leads quality assurance and testing across the delivery lifecycle, defining the testing strategy, managing defects, and advising on release readiness for complex digital and enterprise solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Define and maintain the testing strategy and quality management approach
- Lead functional, integration, regression, security and UAT testing
- Lead defect triage through resolution and closure
- Assess release readiness and residual quality risks
- Report testing progress and quality indicators to stakeholders
Requirements summary:
- Experience leading testing on large complex digital or enterprise solutions
- Experience building test strategies, plans and scripts
- Experience with both automation and manual testing
- Experience with UI, API and database test automation tools
- Experience managing defects through closure
Tools & skills
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-18
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-19
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-19
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Quality assurance |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Encouraged to apply | Indigenous peoples |
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Symbiotic Digital
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Full company description
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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- 5
- 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 | 53 |
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Position: Senior Test Lead
Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite)
Job ID#: RQ11722
Duration: 12 Months
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Test Lead to lead quality assurance and testing activities across the solution delivery lifecycle. The successful candidate will define the overall testing strategy and oversee the development and execution of test plans, scenarios, scripts, defect management processes, and quality reporting activities. The role will leverage both manual and automated testing approaches to ensure solution quality and production readiness.
Key Responsibilities
Test Leadership & Strategy
- Lead quality assurance and testing activities for large, complex digital or enterprise solutions.
- Define and maintain the project's testing strategy and quality-management approach.
- Develop comprehensive test strategies, plans, schedules, quality criteria, and completion reports.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary testing activities across various stakeholder groups.
- Establish testing environments, test data requirements, entry and exit criteria, and testing schedules.
Test Planning & Execution
- Develop test plans, scenarios, scripts, procedures, and reports.
- Lead testing activities using manual and automated testing approaches as appropriate.
- Lead functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, and user acceptance testing.
- Identify opportunities to increase testing efficiency and coverage through automation.
- Coordinate test environments, tools, accounts, data, and supporting resources.
- Establish requirements traceability and test coverage reporting.
Defect Management & Quality Assurance
- Lead defect triage activities and monitor defects through resolution and closure.
- Manage defects, test evidence, requirements traceability, and coverage reporting.
- Identify testing risks, dependencies, constraints, and mitigation strategies.
- Assess release readiness and residual quality risks.
- Provide recommendations regarding solution quality and production readiness.
Reporting & Communication
- Report on testing progress, quality indicators, outstanding defects, and release risks.
- Communicate quality risks, testing outcomes, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Coordinate business and technical teams during testing and defect resolution activities.
- Develop test metrics, dashboards, traceability reports, and quality assessments.
Required Qualifications
Experience
- Experience leading testing for large, complex digital or enterprise solutions.
- Experience developing comprehensive test strategies, test plans, scenarios, scripts, procedures, and completion reports.
- Experience leading functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, and user acceptance testing.
- Experience using test automation tools and approaches supporting UI, API, and database testing.
- Experience selecting and applying testing tools, programming languages, frameworks, and quality practices.
- Experience establishing test environments, test data, entry and exit criteria, and test schedules.
- Experience coordinating testing across business, development, architecture, security, privacy, and operational teams.
- Experience managing defects through identification, prioritization, resolution, retesting, and closure.
- Experience developing test metrics, dashboards, traceability reports, and quality assessments.
- Experience providing evidence-based recommendations regarding release readiness.
Must-Have Skills
- Experience leading testing for large, complex digital or enterprise solutions.
- Experience developing comprehensive test strategies, plans, scenarios, scripts, procedures, and completion reports.
- Experience leading functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, and user acceptance testing.
- Experience with both automation and manual testing methodologies.
- Ability to define and maintain testing strategy and quality management approaches.
- Experience developing testing documentation, schedules, and reporting artifacts.
Work Arrangement
- 5 days onsite.
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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