Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Location: Toronto, ON. Hybrid 3 days a week onsite

Duration: 6 month contract (extensions likely)

Language: English, strong written and verbal communication required

Background Check Requirement: Criminal background check required

About the Opportunity

Our public sector client is seeking a Senior QA Analyst to support large-scale enterprise initiatives and mission-critical projects. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to complex digital solutions that directly impact operational efficiency, customer experience, and service delivery across multiple teams and stakeholders.

You will join a collaborative environment where quality, innovation, and continuous improvement are highly valued. Working closely with developers, project managers, vendors, and business stakeholders, you will play a key role in ensuring software applications and infrastructure components meet business requirements, technical standards, and user expectations.

What’s In It for You

• Exposure to large-scale enterprise and infrastructure projects within a collaborative environment

• Opportunity to work across cross-functional Agile and Waterfall delivery teams

• A workplace that values innovation, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing

• Meaningful work that contributes to operational excellence and customer-focused solutions

• A culture that supports collaboration, accountability, and professional growth

Your Responsibilities

• You’ll lead test planning activities and coordinate end-to-end testing efforts with internal teams and third-party vendors

• In this role, you’ll develop test strategies, test plans, test cases, and maintain regression testing suites

• You’ll execute Functional, Smoke, Regression, UAT, E2E, and cross-team testing activities across multiple applications and environments

• You’ll identify, log, prioritize, and retest defects while working closely with developers and technical teams to resolve issues efficiently

• In this role, you’ll validate software functionality, integrations, and infrastructure components against business and technical requirements

• You’ll generate detailed testing status reports and communicate progress, risks, and results to project stakeholders and leadership teams

• You’ll support non-functional testing activities including performance, accessibility, usability, security, and compliance testing

Skills and Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience planning and performing quality control and software testing activities within enterprise environments

• 5+ years of experience writing and executing test scripts in both Agile and Waterfall delivery models

• Proven experience performing Functional, Smoke, Regression, UAT, E2E, and cross-team testing

• Strong expertise using JIRA, Zephyr, Confluence, or similar testing and collaboration tools

• Experience developing test plans, test strategies, and detailed QA documentation

• Knowledge of SaaS and COTS application verification, along with tools such as Postman, Selenium, SoapUI, or LoadRunner

• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills with the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and environments

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