Test Lead - Senior (Healthcare)

Job Title: Test Lead – Senior (Healthcare)

Work Model: Hybrid

Duration: 6 Months

Extension: 1 Time

Project Description

The Agency requires a Senior Test Lead to support the Enterprise Pub/Sub Applications Team. The resource will lead validation of The Agency application and workflow changes that integrate with the Enterprise Pub/Sub service, which is based heavily on FHIR Subscription and SubscriptionTopic. Testing will cover the transition from scheduled polling to event-driven delivery, including publishers, subscriptions, notifications, queues, downstream applications, and clinical workflows.

The role spans test strategy, estimation, planning, traceability, automation, test data and environment coordination, execution, defect management, reporting, and release readiness. The resource will perform and lead API automation testing using Postman, NextGen API testing tools, and ngrok-hosted endpoints; validate FHIR, REST, HL7 v2, and NextGen Connect integrations; test React single-page applications; and coordinate end-to-end testing across healthcare applications, Ontario digital health assets, and eReferral workflows.

Must Haves

• Senior test leadership experience for complex healthcare integration or enterprise application programs, including strategy, planning, estimation, risk-based coverage, traceability, defect management, reporting, exit criteria, and release recommendations. 25 points
• Publish-and-subscribe API automation experience using Postman, NextGen API testing tools, and ngrok, including subscription workflows, callbacks, asynchronous events, authentication, correlation, idempotency, retries, duplicate events, error handling, and replay. 25 points
• FHIR, REST, HL7 v2, and NextGen Connect testing experience, including FHIR Subscription and SubscriptionTopic, notification Bundles, filters, lifecycle changes, resource validation, message transformations, routing, acknowledgements, and interface error scenarios. 25 points
• SMART on FHIR React single-page application and end-to-end healthcare workflow testing experience smart on fhir sandboxes like MELD, EPIC launch pad, etc, including Ontario digital health assets, provincial services, eReferral applications, functional and integration testing, regression, accessibility, and rel

Description / Responsibilities / Skills

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the overall test strategy, master test plan, estimates, scope, test levels, environments, data needs, entry and exit criteria, and reporting approach for Enterprise Pub/Sub application changes.
• Coordinate test environments, endpoint configuration, connectivity, certificates, test accounts, test data, privacy-safe data handling, stubs, simulators, and dependencies across participating teams and vendors.
• Lead defect triage, root-cause collaboration, retesting, regression selection, quality metrics, daily status reporting, risk escalation, and evidence-based assessment of residual risk.
• Prepare test completion reports and release recommendations, support business acceptance and production validation, confirm operational readiness, and provide testing knowledge transfer to The Agency teams.
• Validate asynchronous reliability and operational scenarios, including event correlation, ordering where required, concurrency, idempotency, retries, duplicate delivery, dead-letter handling, replay, reconciliation, outage recovery, and monitoring.
• Coordinate end-to-end testing across healthcare applications, Ontario digital health assets, eReferral workflows, publishers, Enterprise Pub/Sub, subscribers, and downstream systems.

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.
• A walkthrough of any demos, development, etc. will be required before the end of the engagement.

Deliverables

• A requirements traceability matrix and maintained suite of test scenarios, test cases, data requirements, expected results, execution records, and coverage evidence.
• Postman collections, NextGen API testing assets, ngrok endpoint configurations, environment variables, reusable scripts, and execution instructions for repeatable API and callback testing.
• Defect records, triage outcomes, retest and regression evidence, quality dashboards, coverage metrics, risk assessments, test status reports, and stakeholder communications.
• Test completion reports, release recommendations, business-acceptance support, production validation evidence, operational-readiness inputs, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.

Experience & Skill Set Requirements

Desired Skills:

• Experience testing FHIR R4 or R4B resources and APIs, including Subscription, SubscriptionTopic, event notification Bundles, validation profiles, terminology,
• Experience with Ontario digital health services, healthcare assets, EMR or HIS integration, clinical workflows, eReferral applications, and multi-organization
• Experience with NextGen Connect administration and API capabilities, Postman collections, NextGen API testing tools, ngrok, service virtualization, stubs,
• Experience integrating automated API and user-interface tests into build and deployment pipelines, with versioned test assets, repeatable execution,
• Experience testing cloud-based event services, queues, observability, security controls, performance, resilience, failure recovery, and production support scenarios.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate test environments, endpoint configuration, connectivity, certificates, test accounts, test data, privacy-safe data handling, stubs, simulators, and dependencies