Test Lead - Senior

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Client: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario,

Onsite

Estimated Start Date: 2026-06-17

Estimated End Date: 2027-06-14

#Business Days: 250.00

Extension: Probable after the initial mandate

Hours per day or Week: 7.25 hours per day

Security Level: No Clearance Required

Must Have

• 3+ years of experience executing various types of testing, including:
• Automation testing
• Integration testing
• Unit testing
• Regression testing
• Functional testing
• Accessibility testing
• Non-functional testing
• 3+ years of experience managing test plans and test cases in Azure DevOps, and hands-on experience in Azure DevOps Kanban Board management

The Land and Resources Cluster (LRC) and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) require a qualified Senior Test Lead to undertake the following responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, product owners, and technical teams to develop comprehensive test strategies and test plans.
• Apply a strong understanding of automated and manual testing practices to support the development of test scripts, test cases, and test scenarios in IST, UAT, and PROD architectures.
• Assist with planning and creating test data for each test phase.
• Set up Test Plans, Suites, and Cases in Azure DevOps, and continuously integrate automated test scripts.
• Lead automation testing
• Execute various types of testing, including integration, functional, regression, unit, load, performance, and accessibility testing.
• Plan and organize testing efforts for both front-end including user-interface and back-end application components/environments.
• Regularly communicate test results through reports and team stand-up (need to be able to speak about the results as well to both technical and non-technical team members) summarizing test completion and defects found.
• Implement project technical testing strategies and methodologies, including testing of integration points, interfaces, and non-functional requirements (e.g., fail-over, response times, data integrity, security).
• Evaluate test results against acceptance criteria to determine successful completion of the incremental work assigned .Provide weekly reports confirming the status of assigned tasks
• Define and measure acceptance criteria for test cases.
• Record all defects/issues in defect reporting tools and Azure DevOps, including detailed descriptions, screenshots, and steps to reproduce.
• Participate in elicitation and business requirement workshop sessions, reviews sessions, and walkthrough meetings.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the agile/iterative solution development lifecycle.
• Conduct post-release/post-implementation testing.
• Support clients with user acceptance testing (UAT) activities.
• Create traceability matrices and strategies to ensure testing outcomes align with business requirements. coordinate review meetings with business analysts and stakeholders.

Skill Set

• Extensive experience in quality assurance at the specified experience level.
• Experience in testing Commercial off-the-Shelf Software (COTS/SaaS solutions).
• Working knowledge of SharePoint, .NET Web, Web Services, JavaScript, Python, RStudio, data visualization, geospatial data tools and related scripting technologies for automation.
• Knowledge and experience with test tools and methodologies (Waterfall/Agile/Iterative).
• Comprehensive knowledge of all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, as well as organizational, creativity, perseverance, verbal and written communication skills, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with functional and non-functional product cycle testing.
• Test case and test scenario design and review experience (from business requirements).
• Experience in test case development.
• Experience in automation testing
• Proficiency in defect tracking.
• Experience designing and reviewing test scenarios (use-cases).
• Proficiency in writing manual/automated test scripts.
• Strong hands-on experience with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

Experience And Skill Set Requirements

Testing Skills/Experience - (65%)

• 3+ years of experience developing test cases/scripts and data requirements, and creating test scenarios, test cases for automation testing. Extensive experience with major test automation tools.
• 3+ years of experience developing test cases/scripts and test data, ensuring all business requirements are met by creating a traceability matrix or equivalent 3+ years of experience developing technical testing strategies/plans.
• 3+ years of experience testing non-functional requirements (e.g., fail-over, response times, data integrity, security).
• 3+ years of experience executing various types of testing, including:
• Automation testing
• Integration testing
• Unit testing
• Regression testing
• Functional testing
• Accessibility testing
• Non-functional testing
• Demonstrated 3+ experience in developing test plans, test scripts, and test data; documenting software defects and tracking resolutions. Experience with user acceptance testing (UAT) and leading initial UAT sessions.
• 3+ years of experience managing test plans and test cases in Azure DevOps, and hands-on experience in Azure DevOps Kanban Board management.

Soft Skills - (30%)

• Experience with predictive and agile methodology
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal and ability to communicate complex technical issues with both technical and non-technical team members. Excellent meeting facilitation skills to gather requirements.
• Experience reporting progress on deliverables to team, project leads, and management, including proactively raising risks/issues with mitigations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated experience working with clients and technical teams to ensure effective resolution of defects and management of change requests.
• Experience with user acceptance testing (UAT) and leading initial UAT sessions.

Public Sector Experience - (5%)

• Experience in testing enterprise-level systems and exposure to ministry QA processes and standards within OPS.
• Previous experience working in government or public sector organizations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of public sector applications, databases, and systems while testing.
• Experience working in accordance with policies and procedures of the Ontario Public Service.
• Strong hands-on experience with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

Note

• The consultant is required to come in office 5 days a week