test lead - senior.

We are seeking an experienced Test Lead - Senior to direct end-to-end quality assurance, test strategy planning, and defect management for large-scale digital health platforms and modern application ecosystems. In this role, you will lead functional, integration, API, automated, performance, security, accessibility, and user acceptance testing phases. Working closely with cross-functional development, architecture, and business teams, you will validate microservices, UI components, REST APIs, cloud data stores, and healthcare interoperability workflows to ensure overall system reliability and production readiness.

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

Duration: 8-month contract

Public Sector Experience: Must Have.

Advantages
Advanced Automation & API Scope: Build custom Playwright UI automation suites and manage complex API testing via Postman and vREST.

Healthcare Interoperability Focus: Lead high-impact testing across FHIR R4, SMART on FHIR, HL7 v2, and integration platforms.

Cloud & Microservices Exposure: Validate Java/Spring Boot microservices, React frontends, AWS HealthLake, and OpenSearch engines.

Flexible Hybrid Work Model: Enjoy work-life balance with a flexible hybrid setup based in Toronto.

Responsibilities
Develop and maintain the overall test strategy, test plans, execution schedules, and quality assurance frameworks for enterprise software platforms.

Lead functional, system integration, API, interoperability, regression, performance, accessibility, security, and user acceptance testing activities.

Design, build, maintain, and execute Playwright automated regression suites for modern user interfaces, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Develop, configure, and maintain Postman and vREST collections to test REST APIs, SMART on FHIR workflows, and backend service integrations.

Validate core platform components including FHIR repositories, resource validation, search operations, terminology services, and data synchronization workflows.

Verify data ingestion, synchronization, retrieval, and resource processing across cloud-native platforms and search engines.

Validate authentication and authorization frameworks, including OAuth2/OIDC, JWT processing, and role-based access controls (RBAC).

Coordinate defect triage, track bug resolution, and generate quality metrics, automation coverage reports, and release readiness assessments.

Support production deployment, warranty validation, post-production verification, and operational knowledge transfer.

Qualifications
Test Leadership Seniority: Senior-level test lead experience planning, coordinating, and executing quality assurance activities for complex modernization, integration, or digital service projects (Strictly Required).

Test Artifact Delivery: Proven experience developing test strategies, test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, defect reports, and release readiness recommendations (Strictly Required).

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

Playwright Automation: Hands-on automated testing experience using Playwright, including UI regression scripting, test execution, debugging, and CI/CD integration (Strictly Required).

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

Healthcare Interoperability Protocols: Experience testing healthcare interoperability workflows using HL7 v2, FHIR APIs, SMART on FHIR, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, and integration engines (Strictly Required).

Nice-to-Have Assets:
Hands-on testing experience with Smile CDR, AWS HealthLake, or OpenSearch production implementations.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Test Lead - Senior" 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!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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