Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Taleo; Markham; Hybrid; CAD 63,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition support

Hybrid work schedule

Competitive compensation and benefits

Job summary

SE Health is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to lead hands-on test automation across in-house apps, integrations, and vendor/SaaS solutions, with a strong focus on Playwright and TypeScript.

This 18-month contract supports the AlayaCare implementation and emphasizes automation, data flows, and end-to-end business processes within a national social enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IS or equivalent.
• 6+ years of hands-on QA with test automation.
• Strong Playwright and TypeScript experience.
• Experience building test automation frameworks.
• API and integration testing experience.
• SIT across multiple applications and integrations.
• Strong SQL for data validation.
• CI/CD integration experience.
• Healthcare automation experience is a plus.
• Strong problem solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated tests with Playwright and TypeScript.
• Build and maintain the Playwright automation framework and regression suites.
• Execute SIT across applications, integrations, and data flows.
• Test APIs, data mappings, and error handling; validate data integrity.
• Query backend data with SQL for validation and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with engineers and vendors to resolve defects and optimize tests.
• Support UAT and release testing as needed.

Skills

Playwright

TypeScript

API testing

SIT

SQL

CI/CD

Git

Automation framework

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IS

Tools

Selenium

AlayaCare

Job description

Join us in re-imagining health care with the largest social enterprise in Canada. SE Health is leading a multi-year enterprise transformation project that leverages human-centered design to be at the forefront of innovation within the healthcare sector. As a leader in home care, we are expanding and enhancing our capabilities to provide personalized experiences using new platforms and cloud-native architectures, ensuring privacy and security by design. Our transformation is grounded in guiding principles drive to ensure that we prioritize team decisions, long-term planning, process standardization, data-driven insights, and balanced user adoption. If you are driven by the desire to have an impact, change the world of health care and shape the future, we invite you to be part of our journey.

Position Summary:

As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be responsible for hands-on test automation and testing across in-house applications, integrations, and vendor/SaaS solutions. The role will focus heavily on Playwright and TypeScript, including automation framework development and maintenance, automated regression testing, SIT, and integration testing.

This position will initially support our AlayaCare implementation, with a strong focus on automation, integrations, data flows, and end-to-end business processes.

Duration:

18-month contract

Responsibilities:

Software Testing and Automation

• Write, execute, debug, and maintain automated tests using Playwright and TypeScript.
• Build and maintain the Playwright automation framework, including reusable components, fixtures, configuration, test data, and reporting.
• Build and maintain automated regression suites across applications and integrations.
• Troubleshoot automation failures across test code, applications, environments, integrations, and test data.
• Integrate and execute automated tests through CI/CD pipelines and troubleshoot pipeline failures.
• Use Git for source control, branching, pull requests, and automation code management.
• Perform SIT across applications and integrations, including interfaces, APIs, and data flows.
• Test APIs and validate integrations, including requests and responses, data mappings, transformations, error handling, logging, and downstream impacts.
• Use SQL to query and validate backend data, integration results, and data integrity.
• Review business and technical requirements, integration designs, and acceptance criteria and translate them into test coverage.
• Plan and execute functional, integration, E2E, regression, and automated testing.
• Investigate complex application, integration, automation, and data defects and work with technical teams and vendors through resolution.
• Prepare and maintain test data for manual and automated testing.
• Document and track defects, test results, risks, and supporting evidence using the appropriate QA tools.
• Support UAT and release testing where required.
  

Quality Assurance Operations

• Maintain common automation components and coding practices across the QA automation framework.
• Review automation code and provide technical guidance to QA team members where required
  

Planning

• Estimate and plan automation, SIT, regression, and release testing activities.
• Identify technical dependencies, risks, environment requirements, and test data needs that may impact testing.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or another technically relevant discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 6+ years of hands-on software QA experience, with strong experience in test automation.
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript, including writing, debugging, and maintaining automated tests.
• Strong experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks, including reusable components, fixtures, configuration, test data handling, and reporting.
• Strong experience with Git, including branching, pull requests, merges, and working within shared automation repositories.
• Hands-on experience integrating and running automated tests through CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong experience with API and integration testing, including validating requests, responses, data flows, and error handling.
• Strong experience with SIT across multiple applications and integrations.
• Strong SQL skills and experience querying backend data for validation and troubleshooting.
• Experience designing and maintaining automated regression suites and managing test data for automation.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues across automation code, applications, integrations, environments, and data.
• Hands-on experience with functional, integration, E2E, and regression testing.
• Experience with Selenium or other automation frameworks is an asset.
• Experience testing AlayaCare implementations, releases, or integrations is an asset.
• Healthcare industry experience is an asset but not required.
  
• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Able to write clean, reusable, and maintainable automation code.
• Able to work independently within an existing automation codebase and framework.
• Able to understand and troubleshoot complex integrations, APIs, and data flows.
• Able to take ownership of technically complex automation and testing work with limited direction.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to work effectively with engineering teams, business units, vendors, and project teams.
• Competitive Total Rewards: So much more than a paycheque! Enjoy comprehensive benefits, pension, flexible pay options, car-loan support, housing solutions and exclusive staff perks.
• Flexibility & Belonging: Thrive with hybrid work, flexible scheduling and a supportive, inclusive culture that puts people first.
• Innovative: At SE, we are always looking for new, innovative ways to improve. You’ll be encouraged and supported to identify and make improvements to the way we do our work. As a social enterprise, we support research into Senior’s Health and Aging.
• Purpose & Impact: Join a national social enterprise where your voice matters. Every role helps advance health, spark innovation and strengthen communities across Canada.
• Growth That Meets Your Ambition: Access tuition support, training and meaningful career pathways across a growing, future-focused organization.

About SE Health

SE Health is a not-for-profit social enterprise advancing health with heart. With 115+ years of impact, we bring hope, happiness and exceptional care to people and communities across Canada. We lead with empathy, dignity and purpose while building a future where everyone can realize their full health and well-being potential. We’re also an inclusive, supportive workplace offering competitive compensation, strong benefits and real opportunities to grow. We’re All In Together.

Accessibility

If you require accommodations due to illness or disability, please contact Talent Acquisition at [e-mail] .

AI and compensation details:

We use AI to take notes during our interview. All applications and interviews are reviewed by our Talent Acquisition team. This role is a new addition. The hiring pay range is $63,000–$78,000 annually, based on experience.