QA Engineer (Healthcare Domain)

Role summary

Experience

• At least 4 years of overall software testing or QA experience.
• At least 2 years in healthcare IT or healthcare interoperability testing is preferred.
• Hands-on HL7 v2.x and/or FHIR experience is strongly preferred.
• Strong API and integration testing experience.

Testing responsibilities

• Perform functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end platform testing.
• Validate healthcare data exchange, source-to-destination consistency, and inbound and outbound interfaces.
• Test HL7 message types and validate segments, fields, structures, rules, and ACK/NACK handling.
• Test FHIR REST APIs and common resources, including Patient, Encounter, Observation, Practitioner, Organization, Condition, DiagnosticReport, Medication, MedicationRequest, and Appointment.
• Validate HL7/FHIR mappings and transformations, supported formats, routing, filtering, acknowledgements, and delivery.
• Test positive, negative, boundary, duplicate, missing-data, and invalid-data scenarios.
• Test REST methods and validate requests, responses, headers, status codes, authentication, authorization, and errors.
• Validate FHIR profiles; test failures, retries, queues, duplicates, timeouts, and recovery.
• Perform database checks where needed; prepare test scenarios, cases, data, and execution evidence; track and retest defects.
• Collaborate with delivery teams, review requirements, identify test gaps, and support release or post-deployment validation when required.

Mandatory technical skills

• Strong manual testing and API testing experience.
• Hands-on Postman or similar API-testing tool experience; good understanding of REST APIs, JSON, and XML.
• Knowledge of HL7 v2.x messaging, including MSH, PID, PV1, ORC, OBR, OBX, and ACK.
• Understanding of FHIR concepts, FHIR REST APIs, common resources, and relationships.
• Knowledge of healthcare integration and interoperability, SQL/database validation, and Jira or equivalent defect-management tools.
• Able to troubleshoot integration failures using logs, API responses, and message payloads.

Good to have

• Experience with healthcare interface engines or platforms such as Mirth Connect/NextGen Connect, Rhapsody, Cloverleaf, or InterSystems.
• FHIR R4, FHIR validation tools, or FHIR servers; SMART on FHIR and OAuth 2.0.
• Healthcare terminology knowledge such as ICD-10, SNOMED CT, LOINC, or RxNorm; CDA/C-CDA.
• Healthcare security, PHI, and HIPAA-related requirements.
• API or integration test automation with Postman/Newman, REST Assured, Playwright, Python, or equivalent.
• API performance testing or high-volume message-processing experience is an added advantage.

Work location

• Work location is stated as hybrid remote in Hyderabad, Telangana.

Benefits

• Provident Fund.