Contract: August 31, 2026 - August 30, 2027

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Systems Testing / QA Specialist with strong experience testing large-scale enterprise applications, distributed systems, APIs, integrations, databases, and end-to-end workflows.

The successful candidate will design and execute both manual and automated testing for a large-scale healthcare technology program, with a robust focus on UI automation, API testing, data validation, and healthcare interoperability.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies, test plans, test cases, test scripts, and automation suites.
- Design, build, implement, and maintain scalable UI automation frameworks using Selenium or Playwright.
- Perform API and web service testing using REST/SOAP, Postman, REST Assured, ReadyAPI, or similar tools.
- Validate API payloads, authentication, headers, status codes, XML/JSON messaging, and backend integrations.
- Perform database validation and data integrity testing using SQL, Oracle, MySQL, or similar technologies.
- Validate authentication and authorization mechanisms including OAuth, JWT, SAML, and certificates.
- Analyze and troubleshoot defects, test environments, test data, and integration issues.
- Log, track, and manage defects using JIRA/TestRail.
- Develop and execute test cases for healthcare interoperability and HL7 FHIR resources and/or HL7 v2/v3 messages.
- Validate FHIR profiles, implementation guides, mappings, transformations, and end-to-end data flows.
- Work closely with QA Leads, Developers, Architects, Business Analysts, Project Managers, and other stakeholders.




- Participate in Agile/Scrum delivery and support DevOps and CI/CD practices.

Must-Have Qualifications

- 7+ years of enterprise QA/testing experience with large-scale backend applications, distributed systems, APIs, integrations, databases, and end-to-end workflows.
- Strong hands-on experience building Selenium or Playwright automation frameworks from scratch.
- Advanced experience with REST/SOAP API testing, Postman, REST Assured, ReadyAPI, or equivalent tools.
- Strong experience with SQL/database validation and data integrity verification.
- Experience testing authentication and authorization using OAuth, JWT, SAML, certificates, or similar technologies.
- Strong functional, integration, and systems testing experience.
- Experience with JIRA/TestRail and Agile/Scrum environments.
- Experience with Git and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to Have

- Hands-on healthcare domain experience.
- Experience testing HL7 FHIR, particularly FHIR R4 resources and implementation guides.
- Experience with HL7 v2/v3 messages and data structures.
- Experience with FHIR mapping, transformation, interoperability, and healthcare data integration.
- Experience with Microsoft technologies such as Power BI, Dynamics 365, or SharePoint.
- Public sector experience.

AI-enabled tools may be used to sort applications based on job-related criteria. All AI generated results are vetted by our team and the decision of which candidates move forward is always made by a human.

📌 Senior Systems Testing / QA Specialist (Toronto)
🏢 BITS Recruiting
📍 Toronto