Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist in Toronto

Must Haves:

• Resume must include LinkedIn profile
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in Quality Assurance and software testing.
• Minimum 5 years of experience designing and implementing test automation solutions.
• Demonstrated hands-on expertise with Playwright for UI and end-to-end test automation.
• Experience using Azure DevOps for test management, defect tracking, and release support.

Location: Up to 3 days onsite (subject to HM's discretion)

Public Sector Experience: Preferred

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and execute test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test scripts for CHRIS and HPG initiatives.
• Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and regression test suites using Playwright.
• Perform functional, integration, system, end-to-end, and regression testing.
• Validate application functionality, interfaces, APIs, and data integrity across multiple integrated healthcare systems.
• Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into effective testing solutions.
• Identify, document, track, and validate defects through resolution using Azure DevOps.
• Support release management activities, deployment validation and smoke testing.
• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide testing metrics, status reporting, documentation, and knowledge transfer throughout the engagement.

Required Skills:

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in Quality Assurance and software testing.
• Minimum 5 years of experience designing and implementing test automation solutions.
• Demonstrated hands-on expertise with Playwright for UI and end-to-end test automation.
• Experience using Azure DevOps for test management, defect tracking, and release support.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desired Skills:

• Experience supporting healthcare, public sector, or regulated environments.
• Previous experience working with healthcare information systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution.
• Experience testing cloud-based and Azure-hosted applications.

Deliverables:

• Development, maintenance, and execution of Playwright-based automated test suites supporting CHRIS and HPG releases.
• Comprehensive test plans, test cases, test execution results, defect reports, and quality assurance documentation.
• Execution of functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing for application enhancements and releases.
• Knowledge transfer, documentation, testing artifacts, and recommendations for continuous improvement of QA processes and automation practices.

Additional Terms:

• The term of this Engagement Assignment is for 250 Business Days, with an option to extend for up to an additional 250 days at the Agency's discretion.
• The resource will comply with the Agency's policies and procedures.
• The resource will be issued an Agency laptop and is expected to provide at least one additional monitor, an external keyboard and a mouse at their own expense.
• Internet connection must be hard-wired and suitable bandwidth to support the IT requirements of this role.
• The Agency systems cannot be accessed from outside the province of Ontario.

Assignment Type: This position is currently listed as "Hybrid".

Knowledge Transfer Details:

• The resource will ensure full knowledge transfer is provided to the Agency team before end of engagement.
• The resource must provide all related documentation as part of knowledge transfer protocol.