System Test Engineer (COTS)

Quarry Consulting
Quarry Consulting

Quality Assurance · Contractor

Ottawa, ON, Canada

Posted on Oct 9, 2026

Title: System Test Specialist

Location: Ottawa - 3x a week on-site (not flexible)

Duration: 10-month contract

  • Experience validating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions and integrated systems that support operational, mission-critical, industrial, transportation, defence, simulation, training, or other real-time user-driven environments involving multiple vendors, systems and stakeholders.
  • Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT), or equivalent validation and verification activities.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

  • Knowledge and experience with system testing, test engineering principles and validation of large-scale projects for software and hardware.
  • Experience using Azure DevOps for requirements management, test management, defect tracking and reporting.
  • Experience working with third party suppliers, ensuring adherence to project requirements and quality standards.
  • Ability to develop and execute on test plans/protocols/cases, and report on the test analysis/metrics and provide recommendations to management/supervisors.
  • Analyze and identify test coverage gaps and missing links between requirements and tests, including test procedures developed by other testers.
  • Skill in professional discussions with internal customers, external vendors and management.
  • Skill in writing clear, cohesive, and concise documentation that is easily understandable by colleagues, management, and clients.
  • Skill in communicating clearly in conversation and in presentations to both technical and non-technical staff and management.
  • Knowledge of test maturity models such as TMMI.