Quality Assurance; QA Engineer

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The PA Health Data Platforms team is looking for an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer to play a core part of the software development, maintenance and delivery process. By applying ingenuity to the building of data platforms for the clinical and biopharmaceutical community, PA aspires to change the course of care across the medical spectrum.

The team develops and maintains complex cloud-based systems to store and deliver sensitive clinical data to physicians, regulators, and scientists. We are looking for a passionate Quality Assurance Engineer to join our dynamic team and ensure the highest quality standards for our products.

7-10 years of industry working experience as a QA Engineer

• Hands-on experience with test automation tools and frameworks, including Playwright or similar.
• Familiarity with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) using frameworks such as Cucumber.
• Experience in implementing both API and UI testing to validate end-to-end web app interactions.
• Ability to effectively balance manual and automated testing efforts.

• Solid understanding of test planning, design, overall management of the QA lifecycle.
• Practical experience with functional, regression, exploratory, and manual testing methodologies.
• Skilled in defining and executing test strategies within agile frameworks to ensure comprehensive validation of new features.

• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Git Hub Actions and Azure Dev Ops.
• Proficiency in version control and environment provisioning to ensure scalable test environments.
• Knowledge of SQL for querying and managing databases in test environments.
• Experience with Shell/Bash scripting to automate and streamline test workflows.
• Ability to contribute to Dev Ops practices, enhancing the efficiency, reliability and scalability of test automation workflows.
• Strong collaboration skills with developers, product owners, and cross-functional teams.
• Effective communication skills to advocate for QA best practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

The salary range for this role is between $118,000 - $180,000.

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