senior systems testing/qa specialist.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist to drive the quality assurance and test automation lifecycle for a critical clinical viewer platform. This initiative consolidates disparate software networks into a single, scalable enterprise system to optimize clinical decision-making and secure electronic patient data exchange. In this role, you will analyze technical requirements and build robust, data-driven test suites from scratch to ensure high-performance quality gates across UI, web services, and backend data registries.

Location: Toronto, ON (Up to 5 days onsite, subject to corporate policy)

Duration: 9-month contract

Advantages
Mission-Critical Impact: Directly influence the quality and reliability of clinical data viewers that support critical healthcare delivery and integration.

End-to-End Technical Ownership: Gain deep architecture-level exposure by designing, building, and scaling automation frameworks from the ground up.

Collaborative Tech Space: Work alongside senior developers, network infrastructure engineers, and enterprise architects in a modern Agile environment.

High-Visibility Initiative: Drive the adoption of automation standards across a large-scale data consolidation project.

Responsibilities
Framework & Code Engineering: Analyze, design, build, and maintain enterprise automation testing frameworks. Write complex, reusable automation scripts from scratch for web-based UI screens and RESTful endpoints.

API & Web Services Testing: Lead the design, development, and execution of automated API/web services testing in a fully automated fashion using industry-standard toolsets.

Test Lifecycle Management: Define test plans, compile complex test data, construct traceability matrices, and build comprehensive test execution reports aligned with project requirements.

Security & Access Validation: Execute specialized testing covering system access protocols, authentication, authorization, digital certificates, and secure SAML/JWT tokens.

Data & Backend Verification: Perform data validation activities utilizing SQL queries, ETL processes, and backend registry verifications.

Defect Architecture: Independently log, track, isolate, and manage system defects within JIRA, actively participating in triage and resolution cycles.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with QA Leads, Project Managers, Solution Architects, and business teams to provide effort estimations, validate environment stability, and champion automation best practices.

Agile & UAT Support: Operate effectively within fast-paced Agile-Scrum sprints, supporting DevOps pipelines and assisting with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) coordination.

Qualifications
Automation Seniority: 7+ years of progressive experience in software test automation engineering.

Java & Selenium Mastery: Expert-level, hands-on experience building UI automation suites from scratch using Java and Selenium, with strong debugging and code-analysis capabilities.

Automated API Testing: Advanced experience with automated API testing tools such as Postman, SoapUI, or ReadyAPI.

Environment & Tools: Proficient with BrowserStack for cross-browser testing, Git/GitHub for version control, and JIRA for defect lifecycle management.

Security Protocol Knowledge: Strong working knowledge of testing secure systems utilizing authentication tokens (SAML, JWT) and security certificates.

Database Skills: Solid hands-on experience executing SQL queries and analyzing data structures/ETL pipelines.

Nice to Have: Prior experience in the Healthcare technology domain, particularly validating HL7 FHIR messaging standards.

Summary
If you're interested in the Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist 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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