Senior QA Engineer - Quality Testing

Join us in re-imagining health care with the largest social enterprise in Canada. SE Health is leading a multi-year enterprise transformation project that leverages human-centered design to be at the forefront of innovation within the healthcare sector. As a leader in home care, we are expanding and enhancing our capabilities to provide personalized experiences using new platforms and cloud-native architectures, ensuring privacy and security by design. Our transformation is grounded in guiding principles drive to ensure that we prioritize team decisions, long-term planning, process standardization, data-driven insights, and balanced user adoption. As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be responsible for hands-on test automation and testing across in-house applications, integrations, and vendor/SaaS solutions. The role will focus heavily on Playwright and TypeScript, including automation framework development and maintenance, automated regression testing, SIT, and integration testing.
This position will initially support our AlayaCare implementation, with a strong focus on automation, integrations, data flows, and end-to-end business processes.
Duration: 18-month contract
Software Testing and Automation
Write, execute, debug, and maintain automated tests using Playwright and TypeScript.
Build and maintain the Playwright automation framework, including reusable components, fixtures, configuration, test data, and reporting.
Troubleshoot automation failures across test code, applications, environments, integrations, and test data.
Integrate and execute automated tests through CI/CD pipelines and troubleshoot pipeline failures.
Use Git for source control, branching, pull requests, and automation code management.
Perform SIT across applications and integrations, including interfaces, APIs, and data flows.
Test APIs and validate integrations, including requests and responses, data mappings, transformations, error handling, logging, and downstream impacts.
Use SQL to query and validate backend data, integration results, and data integrity.
Review business and technical requirements, integration designs, and acceptance criteria and translate them into test coverage.
Plan and execute functional, integration, E2E, regression, and automated testing.
Investigate complex application, integration, automation, and data defects and work with technical teams and vendors through resolution.
Prepare and maintain test data for manual and automated testing.
Document and track defects, test results, risks, and supporting evidence using the appropriate QA tools.
Support UAT and release testing where required.
Quality Assurance Operations
Maintain common automation components and coding practices across the QA automation framework.
Review automation code and provide technical guidance to QA team members where required
Planning
Estimate and plan automation, SIT, regression, and release testing activities.
Identify technical dependencies, risks, environment requirements, and test data needs that may impact testing.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or another technically relevant discipline, or equivalent experience.
Minimum 6+ years of hands-on software QA experience, with strong experience in test automation.
Strong hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript, including writing, debugging, and maintaining automated tests.
Strong experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks, including reusable components, fixtures, configuration, test data handling, and reporting.
Strong understanding of TypeScript/JavaScript, including asynchronous programming, functions, classes, modules, and error handling.
Hands-on experience integrating and running automated tests through CI/CD pipelines.
Strong experience with API and integration testing, including validating requests, responses, data flows, and error handling.
Strong SQL skills and experience querying backend data for validation and troubleshooting.
Experience designing and maintaining automated regression suites and managing test data for automation.
Ability to troubleshoot technical issues across automation code, applications, integrations, environments, and data.
Hands-on experience with functional, integration, E2E, and regression testing.
Experience with Selenium or other automation frameworks is an asset.
Experience testing AlayaCare implementations, releases, or integrations is an asset.
Healthcare industry experience is an asset but not required.
Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Able to understand and troubleshoot complex integrations, APIs, and data flows.
Able to take ownership of technically complex automation and testing work with limited direction.
Able to work effectively with engineering teams, business units, vendors, and project teams.

Enjoy comprehensive benefits, pension, flexible pay options, car-loan support, housing solutions and exclusive staff perks.
Flexibility & Belonging Thrive with hybrid work, flexible scheduling and a supportive, inclusive culture that puts people first.
Purpose & Impact Join a national social enterprise where your voice matters. Every role helps advance health, spark innovation and strengthen communities across Canada.
As a social enterprise, we support research focused on healthy aging and the well-being of older adults.
Growth That Meets Your Ambition Access tuition support, training and meaningful career pathways across a growing, future-focused organization.
SE Health is a not-for-profit social enterprise advancing health with heart. With 115+ years of impact, we bring hope, happiness and exceptional care to people and communities across Canada. We lead with empathy, dignity and purpose while building a future where everyone can realize their full health and well-being potential. Accessibility : If you require accommodations due to illness or disability, please contact Talent Acquisition at View email address on careers.sehc.com . AI and compensation details: We use AI to take notes during our interview. The hiring pay range is $63,000–$78,000 annually, based on experience.