Application Developer – QA & SDLC Lead

Healthcare Realty (NYSE: HR) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns, manages, and develops medical office buildings across the United States. With over 700 properties in our portfolio, we partner with healthcare systems to deliver high-quality real estate solutions that support patient care. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Healthcare Realty is committed to innovation, integrity, and long-term performance.
We are seeking a skilled and experienced Application Developer - QA & SDLC Lead to join our Application and Integrations team. This role owns quality assurance for business-critical applications and integrations across the organization, including hands-on QA of React applications developed through AI-assisted prompting with tools such as Claude Code, while helping establish and drive consistent software development lifecycle practices.
We offer an excellent salary and benefit package. To see a detailed list of benefits, please visit www.healthcarerealty.com/careers/.
Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer including Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabilities

Position Summary

Quality assurance is the core of this role. You will define and perform the testing that user-facing applications must pass before release, with a particular focus on React applications produced through AI-assisted development with Claude Code, where generated code must be independently verified for correctness, usability, accessibility, performance, and security. Alongside this, you will develop and support integrations between business systems. You will also serve as a hands-on leader of Healthcare Realty’s software development lifecycle (SDLC), helping establish practical standards and coordinating their consistent use across application initiatives.

Working closely with IT leadership, developers, project managers, business stakeholders, security, infrastructure, and other technical resources, you will guide applications from initial requirements through design, development, testing, approval, deployment, and ongoing support. Success in this role requires the ability to influence teams without relying solely on formal authority, identify and remove process gaps, and perform the detailed work necessary to keep applications moving through the lifecycle.

You will ensure applications are reliable, maintainable, secure, appropriately documented, and ready for deployment in cloud-hosted environments such as Azure Web Apps and related Azure services. This role reports to the Application Architect within the Technology organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Help define, implement, and continuously improve a practical, scalable SDLC framework covering intake, requirements, architecture and design, development, code review, testing, security review, release approval, deployment, documentation, and ongoing support.

• Coordinate with IT leadership and delivery teams to establish clear SDLC roles, responsibilities, decision rights, required deliverables, and approval points.

• Serve as the hands-on SDLC lead for application initiatives, shepherding applications and integrations through each lifecycle stage and following up with responsible team members to keep deliverables, reviews, approvals, and releases on track.

• Promote consistent adoption of SDLC practices through collaboration, coaching, clear communication, and constructive influence across technical and business teams.

• Identify gaps or risks that could prevent an application from advancing, coordinate remediation, and escalate unresolved issues or exceptions to the appropriate IT leaders.

• Perform the detailed work needed to move initiatives forward, including documenting requirements and technical decisions, coordinating reviews, preparing checklists and release materials, tracking action items, validating readiness, and organizing supporting evidence.

• Establish and maintain reusable SDLC templates, checklists, standards, procedures, and application documentation that are appropriately scaled to the complexity and risk of each initiative.

• Maintain visibility into the SDLC status of active application initiatives and communicate progress, dependencies, risks, exceptions, and decisions to IT leadership and stakeholders.

• Define and track practical measures of SDLC effectiveness, such as review completion, release readiness, documentation coverage, unresolved risks, production defects, and adherence to required controls.

• Develop, review, and harden applications—particularly React applications created through AI-assisted development with Claude Code—to ensure they meet organizational quality, reliability, maintainability, and security standards.

• Perform code reviews to identify defects, insecure patterns, maintainability concerns, and deviations from development standards.

• Confirm that authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, logging, monitoring, error handling, data retention, and recovery requirements are appropriately addressed.

• Build and maintain secure, reliable integrations with internal and third-party systems, including appropriate input validation, error handling, monitoring, and support procedures.

• Coordinate testing activities, defect remediation, deployment readiness, production validation, and transition to ongoing application support.

• Plan and execute quality assurance for React applications, including component, integration, accessibility, and end-to-end browser testing, with particular attention to front-end code generated using Claude Code.

• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, support procedures, release records, and remediation guidance for supported applications.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field; equivalent professional experience (5+ years) will be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Proven experience in a software development or application support role.

• Demonstrated experience guiding applications through the full SDLC, from requirements and design through deployment and production support.

• Experience coordinating work across developers, infrastructure, security, project management, business stakeholders, and IT leadership.

• Ability to influence teams, create accountability, resolve ambiguity, and drive process adoption without direct supervisory authority.

• Strong organizational and follow-through skills, with a willingness to perform detailed documentation, coordination, testing, and release-readiness work.

• Experience developing or operationalizing SDLC standards, approval gates, templates, checklists, or governance processes.

• Strong working knowledge of modern SDLC practices and demonstrated experience applying them across multiple application initiatives.

• Proficiency developing and reviewing code written in C#, JavaScript, Python, and other languages while leveraging multiple backend and frontend frameworks such as .NET Core, React, and others.

• Hands-on experience testing and performing QA on React applications, including component and end-to-end testing tools such as Jest, React Testing Library, and Playwright or Cypress.

• Understanding of common application security concepts, including secure coding practices and vulnerability remediation.

• Understanding of authentication concepts such as single sign-on and role-based access, as well as encryption, secrets, and key-management concepts.

• General knowledge of SQL queries and relational database design.

• Hands-on background deploying, configuring, and supporting Azure-hosted applications, including Azure Web Apps and related cloud application services.

• Experience with source control, branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, environment management, automated testing, logging, monitoring, and production support.

• Experience debugging and testing applications using Visual Studio or a similar integrated development environment.

• Skilled in creating and maintaining technical and process documentation.

• Strong analytical, communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing, reviewing, and hardening applications produced through AI-assisted or prompt-based development, such as React applications built with Claude Code.

• Experience in commercial real estate, finance, or accounting fields.

• Background supporting and modernizing legacy .NET Framework applications.

• Experience introducing or maturing an SDLC within a growing or changing technology organization.