Healthcare QA Lead

Position: Healthcare QA Lead

Location: Toronto, ON (hybrid)

Job ID#: RQ00730

Duration: 8 Months

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Healthcare QA Lead to support a complex healthcare technology modernization initiative. The successful candidate will lead both functional and automated testing activities across enterprise healthcare applications, interoperability platforms, integrations, APIs, video technologies, identity workflows, and release readiness processes.

This role requires strong leadership capabilities combined with hands-on expertise in test automation, API validation, healthcare interoperability standards, system integrations, and quality assurance best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop

and maintain overall test strategy, test plans, schedules, test scenarios, test cases, automation approaches, and execution plans.

• Lead

manual functional testing and automated regression testing across frontend, backend, API, integration, and end-to-end workflows.

• Design,

build, maintain, and execute automated tests using Playwright for regression coverage, smoke testing, release validation, and critical user journeys.

• Develop

and execute API test suites using Postman and vREST for REST APIs, FHIR APIs, interoperability workflows, integration endpoints, and backend services.

• Lead

testing activities related to legacy application modernization and replacement initiatives.

• Execute

testing for video workflow capabilities, including virtual meeting integrations, participant management, waiting rooms, session management, and multi-party workflows.

• Plan

and execute testing for healthcare interoperability workflows involving HL7v2, FHIR APIs, FHIR Subscriptions, SMART on FHIR, and integration engine processing.

• Validate

event-driven workflows, subscription notifications, endpoint delivery, payload validation, authorization controls, and downstream processing.

• Validate

authentication, authorization, identity management workflows, and role-based access controls.

• Coordinate

functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, accessibility, performance, security, privacy, user acceptance, implementation readiness, and release-readiness testing activities.

• Create

and maintain requirements traceability matrices to ensure business, technical, security, accessibility, operational, and integration requirements are fully tested.

• Identify,

document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution.

• Lead

defect triage meetings and provide reporting on quality metrics, release risks, testing progress, automation coverage, and readiness recommendations.

• Collaborate

with development and integration teams to support testing, automation, data preparation, and production validation activities.

• Prepare

test summary reports, automation reports, implementation validation plans, release readiness assessments, and knowledge transfer documentation.

• Support

production implementation activities, post-release validation, and warranty support activities.

Required Qualifications

Must-Have Experience

• Senior-level

Test Lead experience on complex application modernization, integration, healthcare, or digital service initiatives.

• Experience

developing test strategies, test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, execution reporting, defect reporting, automation reporting, and release readiness recommendations.

• Hands-on

functional testing experience involving React applications, Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, backend services, and database-driven applications.

• Strong

automated testing expertise using Playwright, including UI automation, debugging, execution management, regression testing, and CI/CD integration.

• Hands-on

API testing experience using Postman and vREST, including assertions, collection management, environment configuration, regression execution, and defect analysis.

• Experience

testing healthcare interoperability solutions utilizing:

• HL7v2

• FHIR

APIs

• FHIR

Subscriptions

• SMART

on FHIR

• OAuth2/OIDC

• JWT

• Integration

engines

• Experience

testing healthcare information system integrations involving scheduling workflows, provider workflows, patient workflows, encounter workflows, clinical data exchange, and interface validation.

• Experience

leading defect management activities and coordinating quality assurance efforts across multiple stakeholder groups.

Required Skills

• Test

leadership, planning, coordination, execution, reporting, and release readiness assessment.

• Functional

testing for healthcare applications and clinical workflows.

• Automated

testing using Playwright.

• API

testing using Postman and vREST.

• Healthcare

interoperability testing using HL7v2, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, OAuth/OIDC/JWT, and integration engines.

• Healthcare

information system integration testing.

• Video

platform integration testing.

• Authentication

and authorization testing.

• Defect

management, risk reporting, traceability, and testing governance.

• Technical

documentation, communication, and stakeholder coordination.

Desired Skills

• Experience

with referral management platforms or similar healthcare solutions.

• Experience

with major healthcare information systems and interoperability technologies.

• Experience

validating virtual care platforms and video-based healthcare workflows.

• Experience

with AWS OpenSearch, monitoring, analytics, logging, search validation, and operational reporting.

• Experience

working within CI/CD-driven testing environments.

• Experience

with accessibility testing and security/privacy testing coordination.

• Experience

working with clinical stakeholders and healthcare delivery teams.

Deliverables

• Test

strategy and test plan.

• Functional

test scenarios, test cases, scripts, test data strategies, and traceability matrices.

• Automated

test scripts, regression suites, execution reports, and automation documentation.

• API

test collections, interoperability test cases, environments, assertions, and regression evidence.

• Test

execution results, evidence repositories, defect logs, status reports, and release readiness reports.

• Validation

of modernization and replacement initiatives.

• Validation

of video integrations and workflow capabilities.

• Validation

of interoperability, healthcare information system integrations, patient workflows, provider workflows, and clinical workflows.

• Validation

of provincial digital health asset integrations where applicable.

• Authentication,

authorization, and identity workflow validation.

• Regression,

smoke, accessibility, user acceptance, performance, security/privacy coordination, implementation readiness, and release readiness artifacts.

• Release

readiness assessments and test summary reports.

• Production

implementation validation and post-release support activities.

Work Arrangement

• Hybrid

work model with onsite attendance as required.

• Candidates

must be eligible to work within Ontario and comply with project access requirements.

• Home

office setup must support secure and reliable connectivity requirements.

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