Position: Senior Test Lead

Duration: 5 Months assignment (contract)
Client Location: Toronto (Onsite/Hybrid: 7.25 hours/day between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday)
Engagement Model: Skilled Services Engagement - B2B (Incorporated Entities Only)

Note on Assignment Type

This position is provisionally Onsite/Hybrid, requiring 7.25 hours per calendar day between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday (excluding breaks). Conditions may change based on organizational requirements and at the discretion of the Hiring Manager.

About the Engagement

Akkodis is seeking an experienced Senior Test Lead to support enterprise healthcare integration initiatives focused on validating application and workflow changes that leverage Enterprise Publish/Subscribe capabilities.

The successful consultant will lead all testing activities associated with modernizing healthcare workflows from scheduled polling processes to event-driven integration models utilizing FHIR Subscription, SubscriptionTopic, REST APIs, HL7 v2, and NextGen Connect technologies.

This role requires expertise in test strategy development, API automation, healthcare interoperability testing, asynchronous event validation, end-to-end integration testing, accessibility testing, defect management, release readiness, and quality assurance leadership across complex digital health ecosystems.

Scope

Define testing scope, effort estimates, risk-based testing priorities, environments, test data requirements, and entry/exit criteria.

Validate event-driven workflows, publish-and-subscribe architectures, healthcare integrations, and downstream application processes.

Design and execute API automation, integration, functional, accessibility, regression,



and end-to-end testing.

Validate FHIR Subscription and SubscriptionTopic implementations, notification workflows, event delivery, and asynchronous processing.

Assignment Deliverables

Comprehensive test strategy, master test plan, effort estimates, risk assessments, testing schedules, and release-readiness criteria.

Requirements traceability matrices linking requirements, test scenarios, execution results, defects, and release evidence.

Automated API test suites validating publishers, subscriptions, notifications, callbacks, downstream processing, and failure recovery scenarios.

Postman collections, NextGen API testing assets, ngrok configurations, reusable automation scripts, and execution documentation.

Expertise Required

Must Have:

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.

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.

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.

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 digital health assets, provincial services, eReferral applications, functional and integration testing, regression, accessibility, and release readiness.

Nice to Have:

Experience with healthcare terminology validation and FHIR implementation guides.

Experience with digital health assets, EMR integrations, HIS integrations, and multi-organization testing initiatives.

Security Clearance

Required.

Important

This is a business-to-business engagement. Candidates must represent an incorporated entity, hold a valid business number, maintain appropriate insurance, and invoice for services rendered.

How to Apply

Submit your resume in confidence via the Akkodis Canada website.

We thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. Only candidates meeting the above qualifications will be contacted for further discussions.

Accessibility:

At Akkodis, part of The Adecco Group, our purpose is simple: to make the future work for everyone. We live our values, Passion, Collaboration, Inclusion, Courage, and Customers at Heart, by fostering a workplace where diversity is celebrated and every voice matter. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities. Together, we're making the future work for everyone.

📌 Senior Test Lead (Toronto)
🏢 Akkodis
📍 Toronto