Project Overview
The Public Health I+IT Solutions Branch (PHS) develops, maintains and modernizes the I+IT solutions for Public Health and associated stakeholders. The branch manages ministry-supported public health solutions and ensures public health technology solutions are streamlined and integrate with the broader digital health sector. Ontario’s Public Health IT ecosystem supports critical functions essential for public health protection, disease prevention and legislative compliance, including immunization tracking, disease surveillance, and environmental health monitoring. The solutions support the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Public Health programs to fulfill legislation and regulation including the Immunization School Pupils Act, Child Care and Early Years Act, COVID-19 Vaccination Reporting Act, Health Protection and Promotion Act and the Smoke-Free Ontario Act. These solutions support local public health agencies to provide mandatory programs under the Ontario Public Health Standards (e.g., Infectious Diseases Protocol), meet their legislative obligations and respond effectively to emerging health risks. Resources are needed to provide specialized expertise to sustain and enhance Ontario’s Public Health IT ecosystem in order to mitigate risks of system outages, protect data integrity, and maintain legislative compliance.

Key Responsibilities

Identifies opportunities for automation within software testing processes

Designs and executes QA tests using scripts that automatically test functionality.

Designs and writes test automation scripts

Utilizes test automation frameworks

Works with QA analysts and software developers to find solutions

Review test automation approach improvement.

Analyze testing, DevOps processes, standards, and best practices and drive necessary improvements.

Provide technical support to Test Automation tools.

Participate in Sprint Retrospective to examine current Quality Assurance practices to identify potential improvement opportunities.

Evaluate test automation tools and processes and provide recommendations to promote best practices.

Transform functional, business, and system knowledge into effective test case planning and execution.

Create test data according to the test plan; analyze testing results and retesting until expected results are obtained; perform reviews with users and ensures client acceptability levels are met (e.g. participating in walk throughs); recommend changes to ensure acceptable testing results; retest all criteria in a live environment and recommend user sign off for implementation.

Work closely with developers, architects, product owners, and others in establishing effective test plans based on feature documentation.

Apply QA and technical expertise and engage other expertise to track and resolve testing and production issues and other IT related problems with quality deficiencies and maintain client service integrity.

Ensure that testing automation is under source control, documented and disaster recovery is in place.

Qualifications & Requirements
REQUIRED

Must be able to work 5 days onsite per week at 5700 Yonge Street, Toronto

Identifies opportunities for automation within software testing processes





Designs and develops and executes QA tests using automation scripts that automatically test functionality

Designs and develops test automation frameworks

Designs and develops and utilizes test automation recent technologies such as AI

Experience with enterprise-level performance testing tools such as LoadRunner

Review test automation approach improvement

Experience with tools such as Selenium framework

NICE TO HAVE

Knowledge and experience with Public Sector Health related projects

EVALUATION CRITERIA
Public Sector Experience - 5 points

5+ years of experience working with federal/provincial/broader public-sector healthcare providers

Knowledge of Public Sector Enterprise Architecture artifacts (or similar), processes and practices, and ability to produce technical documentation that comply with industry standard practices

In-depth knowledge of industry standard such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and Public Sector I⁢ project management methodologies.

Knowledge and experience with Public Sector Health related projects

Knowledge and understanding of Ministry policy and IT project approval processes and requirements Public Sector Experience adopting and adhering to Public Sector Unified I⁢ Project Methodology, Public Sector Enterprise Architecture and Public Sector Gating process, and OPS Standard Systems Development Methodologies

Experience with large complex IT Health-related projects.

QA and Automation & Testing Knowledge and Experience - 45 points

7+ years of experience in the following:

Experience in identifying opportunities for automation within software development and testing processes

Design, develop, and execute automated QA tests to validate application functionality.

Design and maintain test automation scripts using established automation frameworks (tools such as Selenium framework).

Experience in identifying and documenting bugs and quality issues in development, service or business processes.

Experience with installing applications and databases relevant to automation

Knowledge and understanding of testing methods in an object-oriented environment

Knowledge and experience working in traditional and agile teams using standard and DevOps processes and tools

Knowledge and experience using at least one programming language

Experience with enterprise-level performance testing tools involves a structured process of scripting, scenario design, execution, and analysis using tools such as LoadRunner

Performing functional and non-functional system testing of the following: Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) solutions including testing of patches, new releases, acceptance testing of enhancement request functionality for modules of the product and other enhancements,



and regression testing for implementation; in house web applications; HL7-FHIR based webservices (RESTFUL/JSON/XML); Application Programming Interfaces (API); reporting solutions; integration components, extensions, and enhancements

Performing testing of Security Components including use of SAML and JWT

Creating complete system testing documentation and artefacts such as: test strategies, test plans, test use cases, test scripts

API testing tools to query and test interfaces at the messaging layer, web service queries using tools such as SOAP-UI, POSTMAN or via Programming Languages

Knowledge and experience with information retrieval packages, and data queries and ad-hoc queries (using SQL) and other query languages

Performing Accessibility testing to websites, web content and mobile applications to conform to the World Wide Web Consortium Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, tools to support Web Accessibility testing in support of AODA legislation

Test results reports, including performance and security testing results, for use in Defect Reviews with clients, partners and project team

Business Intelligence (BI) solution to plan, prepare, and execute testing of BI solution, including data setup/integration and validating data in the BI solution accessed through predefined analytical reports, ad-hoc reporting tools and dashboards to ensure accuracy, completeness, and data integrity of the solution

Validating successful deployment of releases in production environments, preparing reports on testing results

Logging, Tracking and Defect Reporting - 35 points

7+ years of experience with:

Identifying and documenting issues and risks

Creating and maintaining defect logs and defect summary reports (using tools such as Jira or Confluence, Test rail)

Updating tasks and project status

Participating in QA and cross functional team meetings

Prioritizing test execution based on business priority, defect patterns, and available testing time

Dealing creatively with problems stemming from shared resources such as test environments and test data

Actively participating in walkthroughs and triage sessions.

General Skills - 15 points

Proven technical leadership skills, with ability to identify areas for improvement, and recommend solutions

Exceptional analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills

Demonstrated strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills

Proven troubleshooting and critical thinking experience

Demonstrated ability to apply strong listening skills to facilitate issue resolution

Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships

Excellent customer service skills, including tact and diplomacy to ensure client needs are managed effectively

A motivated, flexible, detail-oriented and creative team player with perseverance, excellent organization and multi-tasking abilities, and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines.

Key Skills & Competencies
Selenium, LoadRunner, SOAP-UI, POSTMAN, SQL, HL7-FHIR, RESTful, JSON, XML, API testing, SAML, JWT, WCAG, AODA, DevOps, Jira, Confluence, TestRail, Test automation frameworks, Object-oriented programming, COTS, Business Intelligence, Web Accessibility testing, Performance testing, Automated QA testing, Test data management, Defect tracking

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📌 Automation Developer (Ontario)
🏢 GovTech Talent Solutions
📍 Ontario