senior test lead.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Test Lead to drive end-to-end quality assurance, test strategy design, and automated release validation across complex enterprise application ecosystems. In this role, you will oversee both functional testing and automated test execution across frontend interfaces, backend microservices, REST APIs, and modern data-exchange workflows. Working alongside cross-functional engineering, security, and operational teams, you will establish automated regression suites, conduct rigorous API testing, lead defect triage, and deliver actionable release-readiness recommendations.

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid – onsite as needed)

Duration: 8-month contract

Public Sector Experience: Must Have.

Advantages
Advanced Automation Stack: Lead automation strategies using Playwright, Postman, vREST, and CI/CD pipelines.

Full-Spectrum Delivery Impact: Oversee quality assurance across frontend UI, backend microservices, APIs, and complex integration engines.

Strategic Quality Leadership: Author master test plans, direct defect triage, and deliver executive release-readiness assessments.

Flexible Hybrid Workspace: Enjoy a modern hybrid work model in Toronto with on-site flexibility as needed.

Responsibilities
Test Strategy & Planning: Develop and maintain overarching test strategies, master test plans, automated execution frameworks, and traceability matrices across complex software development lifecycles.

Test Automation & Scripting: Design, build, and execute automated UI regression test suites, smoke tests, and release validation scripts using Playwright integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

API & Service Testing: Create and execute automated API test collections using Postman and vREST to validate REST APIs, event-driven subscriptions, authorization flows, and backend microservices.

Functional & Integration Testing: Lead full-lifecycle functional, system integration, end-to-end, regression, and user acceptance (UAT) testing across web applications, video platforms, and backend databases.

Interoperability & Data-Exchange Validation: Plan and execute testing for standards-based data feeds, identity workflows, authentication protocols (OAuth2/OIDC, JWT), and enterprise integration engines.

Defect Management & Triage: Facilitate defect triage sessions, prioritize and track issues through resolution, and generate defect trend metrics and risk assessments.

Governance & Release Reporting: Author test summary reports, automation coverage analyses, and release readiness assessments to provide formal go/no-go recommendations.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with development, security, privacy, and operations stakeholders to support test data preparation, production implementation, and post-release validation.

Qualifications
Senior Test Leadership: Senior-level experience leading test planning, coordination, execution, and release readiness assessments on complex application modernization or digital service projects (Strictly Required).

Core Artifact Authoring: Proven experience developing test strategies, test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, defect reports, and release readiness documentation (Strictly Required).

Functional & Backend Testing: Hands-on functional testing experience with React applications, Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, and database-driven solutions (Strictly Required).

Playwright Test Automation: Hands-on experience with Playwright for UI automation, regression test scripting, debugging, and CI/CD pipeline integration (Strictly Required).

API Testing Mastery: Hands-on API testing experience using Postman and vREST, including environment configurations, assertions, collection management, and API defect analysis (Strictly Required).

Interoperability & Security Protocols: Demonstrated experience testing standards-based interoperability workflows, identity systems, and security protocols (HL7v2, FHIR APIs, SMART on FHIR, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, Mirth engine) (Strictly Required).

Public Sector Expertise: Prior experience delivering quality assurance leadership within public sector IT environments (Strictly Required).

Desirable Assets:
Experience testing video communication APIs (Pexip, Zoom) and virtual visit workflows.

Familiarity with hospital information systems (Epic, Cerner, MEDITECH) and referral management platforms.

Hands-on experience with AWS OpenSearch for logging, search validation, and operational dashboards.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Test Lead" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

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