About this role
RQ00708 - Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Specialist 10-month contract (194 business days) - possible extension Up to 3 days on-site (Subject to hiring manager's discretion) - 200 Front St Must Haves: • 7+ years of experience in Quality Assurance for enterprise web applications and digital platforms • Experience developing and executing: • Functional testing • Integration testing • Regression testing • User Acceptance Testing (UAT) • Accessibility testing • Performance testing • Automated UI and API testing 3. Hands-on experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or equivalent technologies 4. Experience testing modern web applications built using Next.js, React, .NET C#, or equivalent technologies 5. Experience validating applications utilizing headless CMS platforms (Contentful preferred) Nice to have: • Public Sector experience Position Overview: Supply Ontario is seeking a highly skilled Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Specialist to support the design, validation, and delivery of modern digital platform capabilities as part of our Digital Experience Platform (DxP). This role will lead quality assurance activities across public-facing and internal digital services, including account management, vendor workflows, search and discovery experiences, content management, secure integrations, reporting capabilities, and automated quality engineering as Supply Ontario modernizes procurement and supply chain services across Ontario's public sector. Operating at the intersection of engineering delivery, enterprise architecture, and product development, the Senior QA Specialist will ensure that digital solutions meet functional, integration, accessibility, security, performance, and automation requirements while supporting a scalable, cloud-native, headless architecture. A core outcome of this role will be to help transition Supply Ontario from fragmented digital experiences to a modern, secure, API-driven platform built on reusable components and enterprise integrations while establishing a sustainable automated testing framework that enables continuous delivery and high-quality releases. Responsibilities: Quality Strategy & Planning • Develop and execute comprehensive QA strategies across DxP initiatives • Review business requirements, user stories, and technical designs to ensure testability • Define test plans, test cases, automation strategies, and quality gates for releases • Support release readiness and Go/No-Go recommendations Test Automation • Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks for web applications and APIs • Develop automated functional, regression, smoke, integration, and end-to-end test suites • Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous quality validation • Execute automated test suites across Development, QA, UAT, and Production environments • Analyze automation results, identify failures, and collaborate with development teams to resolve issues • Continuously improve automation coverage and reduce manual testing effort through reusable test assets and frameworks Functional & Integration Testing • Validate end-to-end user journeys across public and authentic