Posted 16 days ago
Test Lead
@ Symbiotic Digital
Ontario
Overview
Symbiotic Digital is hiring a Test Lead on a 12-month contract in Toronto. The role leads and performs QA and testing across enterprise platform features, integrations and releases, from risk-based strategy and automation to defect triage and release readiness reporting. The posting requires 5 days a week onsite in Toronto.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and perform testing across enterprise platform capabilities and integrations
- Define and maintain test strategies, plans, scripts and reporting
- Develop and maintain UI, API, service and database test automation
- Coordinate test environments, test data and defect triage through closure
- Provide evidence-based production readiness recommendations
Requirements summary:
- Experience planning end-to-end testing for complex digital solutions
- Experience automating UI, API, service or database tests
- Experience testing cloud applications, microservices and system integrations
- Experience with functional, integration, regression, accessibility, performance and acceptance testing
- Ability to coordinate business and technical teams during defect resolution
- Previous public sector experience is preferred
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-21
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-22
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-22
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Job details
| Seniority | Lead |
| Department | Software development |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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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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- 1075 North Service Road W., Suite 100, Oakville, Ontario L6M 2G2, CA
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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 | 55 |
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Position: Test Lead
Location: Toronto, ON
Job ID#: RQ11743
Duration: 12 Months
Role Overview
Leads and performs quality assurance and testing for enterprise platform features, integrations, releases, and onboarded services. The role develops risk-based test strategies, plans, scenarios, scripts, data, automation, traceability, quality metrics, and completion reporting across functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, API, database, and user acceptance testing.
Working collaboratively with product teams, analysts, architects, developers, DevOps engineers, security specialists, business representatives, and stakeholders, the Senior Systems Testing / QA Specialist coordinates environments and test readiness, identifies and manages defects, and verifies that approved requirements and quality criteria have been met.
The role provides evidence-based release readiness assessments, communicates residual risks, and helps establish repeatable testing practices and automation that improve coverage, reliability, delivery speed, and confidence in enterprise platform releases.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and perform testing activities across enterprise platform capabilities and integrations.
- Define and maintain test strategies, plans, schedules, scenarios, scripts, test data, and reporting.
- Execute manual and automated testing across multiple testing disciplines.
- Develop and maintain UI, API, service, and database test automation where appropriate.
- Coordinate test environments, accounts, tools, test data, and supporting resources.
- Maintain requirements traceability and test coverage reporting.
- Lead defect triage and monitor defects through resolution and closure.
- Validate accessibility, security, performance, reliability, and integration requirements.
- Report quality indicators, testing progress, outstanding defects, and release risks.
- Provide evidence-based recommendations on production readiness.
Experience Requirements
- Experience testing large, complex digital platforms, enterprise applications, or public-facing services.
- Experience developing test strategies, plans, scenarios, scripts, procedures, test data, and completion reports.
- Experience conducting functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, API, database, and user acceptance testing.
- Experience designing and maintaining automated tests for user interfaces, APIs, services, and data components.
- Experience testing cloud-based microservices, distributed applications, and integrations across multiple systems.
- Experience establishing test environments, test accounts, test data, entry and exit criteria, and schedules.
- Experience managing defects through identification, triage, prioritization, resolution, retesting, and closure.
- Experience maintaining requirements traceability, coverage reporting, dashboards, and quality metrics.
- Experience assessing release readiness and communicating residual quality risks.
Skills & Qualifications
Testing Strategy and Execution (35%)
- Experience planning and executing end-to-end testing for complex digital solutions.
- Experience with functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, and acceptance testing.
Test Automation and Technical Testing (25%)
- Experience automating UI, API, service, or database tests.
- Experience testing cloud applications, microservices, and system integrations.
Defect Management and Quality Reporting (25%)
- Experience managing defects, traceability, coverage, metrics, and release readiness assessments.
Communication and Collaboration (15%)
- Excellent analytical, reporting, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to coordinate business and technical teams during testing and defect resolution.
Mandatory Requirements
- Experience planning and executing end-to-end testing for complex digital solutions.
- Experience with functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, and acceptance testing.
- Experience automating UI, API, service, or database tests.
- Experience testing cloud applications, microservices, and system integrations.
- Ability to coordinate business and technical teams during testing and defect resolution.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous public sector experience.
Work Arrangement
- 5 days onsite in 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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