Functional Quality Assurance (QA) Tester

Role: Functional Quality Assurance (QA) Tester

Location: Mississauga, ON (3 days Hybrid)

Contract: Long Term

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Functional QA Tester to support the testing of cloud-based applications, integrations, and enhancements. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on manual testing experience, exposure to AWS technologies, API and database testing skills, and an interest in using automation and AI to improve testing efficiency and coverage.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and exploratory test cases.

• Review requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to identify test scenarios, edge cases, and potential gaps.

• Document, track, retest, and validate defects through resolution.

• Test applications and integrations within an AWS environment, including Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, and CloudWatch.

• Perform API testing to validate requests, responses, payloads, integrations, and error scenarios.

• Perform database testing and SQL queries to validate data accuracy and troubleshoot issues.

• Use logs and application data to investigate issues and support root-cause analysis.

• Create and maintain test cases using Zephyr Essentials and manage defects and work items in Jira.

• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive and regression test cases.

• Work with automation tools and frameworks to develop or maintain automated tests.

• Use and experiment with AI tools to improve test-case creation, test coverage, automation, troubleshooting, and overall QA efficiency.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in functional/manual software testing.

• Experience testing cloud-based applications, preferably within AWS.

• Experience with API testing, database testing, and SQL.

• Experience with Jira, Zephyr Essentials, and Confluence.

• Experience with or a strong understanding of test automation.

• Comfortable using and experimenting with AI tools and applying AI to testing and automation activities.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

• Experience working in an Agile software delivery environment.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Experience

• Testing serverless or event-driven AWS applications.

• Working with Lambda, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch, and S3.

• API testing tools such as Postman.

• Automating functional, regression, or API testing.

• Using AI-assisted tools to generate test scenarios, support automation, analyze results, or improve QA processes.