Senior Quality Engineering Lead

Job Details

Entity: WELLSTAR

Position Title: Senior Quality Engineering Lead, AI-Driven Testing

Salary Range: $125,000 - $155,000

Job Class: Full Time

Work Location: Toronto, ON

WELLSTAR is a leading healthcare technology and provider‑solutions organization focused on empowering healthcare practitioners, clinics, and health systems through innovative software, digital health, and operational solutions. As a technology platform, WELLSTAR brings together a growing ecosystem of healthcare products and services, including Electronic Medical Records, patient engagement tools, revenue cycle management, billing and back‑office solutions, healthcare IT services, and emerging AI‑enabled capabilities.

Through its portfolio of trusted healthcare technology brands, WELLSTAR supports thousands of providers and clinics across Canada and plays an important role in improving the way care is delivered, managed, and experienced. WELLSTAR’s mission is to help healthcare organizations operate more efficiently, improve provider and patient experiences, and scale technology- enabled solutions that support better health outcomes. The organization combines deep healthcare expertise with a collaborative, entrepreneurial approach to building practical solutions for the evolving needs of Canadian healthcare.

The WELLSTAR Clinical Platform Group is responsible for the development and support of the EMR platforms such as OSCAR and Cerebrum, which are leading Electronic Medical Record software's in Canada that support thousands of providers and millions of Canadian patients across the country. Primarily located in the greater Toronto area and the greater Vancouver area, the team currently works remotely with hybrid support where desired.

We are looking for a senior, hands‑on Quality Engineering Lead to help modernize how WELLSTAR’s EMR teams approach testing, release confidence, and quality in an AI assisted engineering environment. As AI‑assisted development increases the speed and volume of software change, this role will help define how quality engineering, automation, AI‑assisted test generation, and risk based release practices evolve to keep pace without compromising reliability, privacy, or patient safety.

This is not a traditional QA lead role. You will not simply manage test execution or apply a standard QA playbook. Instead, you will assess existing QA practices, align teams around practical quality standards, evaluate emerging AI‑driven testing approaches, and help define what “safe to release” means for critical healthcare workflows.

The right person does not need to have all the answers. This is a genuinely emerging field. We are looking for someone curious, experimental, pragmatic, and technically credible; someone who wants to learn deeply, test new approaches, separate hype from real value, and help define the future of quality in an AI‑assisted engineering environment.

Our teams are using AI‑assisted development tools to build and modify software faster. This creates a new quality challenge: code volume and change velocity are increasing faster than traditional QA, regression testing, and test maintenance can comfortably handle. At the same time, QA and automation practices are not yet consistent across EMR groups. Some practices work well, others need to be improved, and some may need to be rethought from first principles.

We already have a foundation of AI‑assisted automated testing in place. We have also begun developing AI‑driven approaches to manual QA, using user‑driven requirements and acceptance criteria as the basis for test case generation. The successful candidate will assess, extend, refine, and operationalize this work at scale rather than starting from zero.

This role is about shaping a modern quality practice, not simply applying a classic QA playbook.

You will co‑own quality with Engineering and Product. Engineering remains accountable for code quality, unit tests, integration tests, CI/CD implementation, and technical gates. This role owns QA strategy, cross‑team quality practice alignment, test…