Senior Systems Test Engineer

The Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist leads and executes comprehensive quality assurance and testing activities for complex enterprise platforms. This role develops and implements risk-based test strategies and automation to ensure the reliability, performance, security, and usability of digital solutions. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, the specialist manages test environments, defects, and quality metrics to deliver evidence-based release readiness assessments and improve testing practices. Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain test strategies, plans, scenarios, scripts, and data for various testing types including functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, API, database, and user acceptance testing.
• Lead and perform manual and automated testing across enterprise platform features, integrations, and releases.
• Coordinate test environments, accounts, tools, and data to ensure test readiness.
• Manage defect lifecycle including identification, triage, prioritization, resolution, retesting, and closure.
• Maintain requirements traceability, test coverage reporting, dashboards, and quality metrics.
• Assess release readiness and communicate residual risks to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product owners, developers, DevOps, security specialists, and business partners to ensure quality standards.
• Establish and promote repeatable testing practices and automation to improve coverage and delivery speed.

• Proven experience in planning and executing end-to-end testing for complex digital platforms.
• Strong expertise in functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, and acceptance testing.
• Proficiency in automating UI, API, service, and database tests.
• Experience testing cloud-based microservices, distributed applications, and integrations.
• Ability to coordinate and communicate effectively with both business and technical teams during testing and defect management.

• Experience with operations (OPS) or public sector environments.
• Familiarity with security and performance testing tools and methodologies.
• Knowledge of DevOps processes and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Experience with accessibility standards and compliance testing.

• Testing Strategy and Execution - 35 Points
• Test Automation and Technical Testing - 25 Points
• Defect Management and Quality Reporting - 25 Points
• Communication and Collaboration - 15 Points

• Comprehensive test strategies, plans, and scenarios covering all relevant testing types.
• Automated and manual test scripts and data sets.
• Defect reports, triage documentation, and resolution tracking.
• Requirements traceability matrices and test coverage dashboards.
• Release readiness assessments and quality metrics reports.
• Recommendations for improving testing processes and automation frameworks.

• Extensive experience in end-to-end testing of complex digital solutions.
• Proven ability to automate tests across UI, API, service, and database layers.
• Strong coordination skills to manage cross-functional teams during testing and defect resolution.
• Expertise in cloud-based microservices and system integration testing.

Preferred