Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist – Public Health IT

Job summary

Lead QA activities including the creation of test strategies, plans, and scripts for mission-critical public health IT systems. Manage the full testing lifecycle from execution and automation to defect triage and resolution.

Job details

We are seeking a Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist with 7+ years of enterprise QA and systems testing experience, including test planning, strategy, execution, automation, and defect management. • Strong experience with functional, non-functional, system, regression, integration, acceptance, performance, and security testing. • Proven experience leading QA/testing activities, preparing test strategies, test plans, test cases, test scripts, test data, and test result reports. • Strong experience testing clinical, mission-critical, high-volume transactional, and highly available enterprise systems. • Hands-on experience with APIs, RESTful web services, JSON/XML, HL7-FHIR, integration components, and messaging-layer testing. • Strong SQL skills, including data queries, ad-hoc queries, data validation, data integrity, BI/reporting validation, and database testing. • Experience with test automation using Selenium and automated test scripting, with knowledge of at least one programming language. • Experience with security testing involving SAML/JWT and accessibility testing using WCAG 2.0/AODA standards. • Strong defect tracking and reporting experience using tools such as Jira, Confluence, and TestRail, including defect triage, prioritization, and resolution. • Strong knowledge of SDLC, Agile, traditional/hybrid methodologies, DevOps processes, and test integration throughout the development lifecycle. • Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, documentation, stakeholder-management, and technical leadership skills. • 5+ years of experience working on federal/provincial/broader public-sector healthcare or large, complex Health IT projects.

What you’ll do

Lead QA activities including the creation of test strategies, plans, and scripts for mission-critical public health IT systems. Manage the full testing lifecycle from execution and automation to defect triage and resolution.

Requirements

Requires over 7 years of enterprise QA experience and at least 5 years within the public sector healthcare domain. Must be proficient in SQL, Selenium, API testing, and accessibility standards like WCAG 2.0.

Listed skills

• SQL · Preferred
• Jira · Preferred
• Agile · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Systems Testing
• QA Strategy
• Test Automation
• API Testing
• SQL
• Selenium
• HL7-FHIR
• Security Testing
• Accessibility Testing
• Defect Management
• Agile
• DevOps
• Jira
• TestRail
• Stakeholder Management
• Health IT

Job areas

• Technology
• Healthcare
• Software
• Government & Public Sector
• Consulting