Job type: Full-time employee
Job ID: 26QAAE202
Description
Serious Development is a boutique healthcare strategy, product, and software engineering firm. We partner with healthcare organizations to solve complex operational challenges through thoughtfully designed custom software.
We are actively seeking a QA Automation Engineer to help us build HealthTech apps and systems for our clients by contributing as a member of one of our agile engineering teams. You’ll help your team increase the reliability of releases through maintaining the application stack’s test automation harness, generating test cases with developers to verify their work, and automating those test cases to continuously regression test code changes. Together with your fellow QA Automation Engineers, you will ensure that our releases are of the highest quality with minimal escaped defects. Overall, you’ll contribute your experience to make your team and the department stronger.
Responsibilities (What you’ll do)
● Operate as a self-sufficient, T-shaped, QA Automation engineer
● Review technical architecture documentation for the project and ensure that the engineering team’s deliverables are implemented accordingly
● Design, implement, maintain, and administer automated test frameworks with results reporting
● Build new QA automation tests in parallel with development of new user interfaces
● Support manual QA testing efforts and the conversion of manual test cases into automated test cases
● Work with the TechOps team to deploy automation tests as part of the CI/CD process
● Participate in reporting metrics for both manual and automated testing
● Author and maintain technical documentation and how-to instructions on automation frameworks and scripts
● Participate in functional and technical reviews
● Assist in identifying process improvements and application enhancements
● Create and document test plans
● Collaborate with the development team to plan, create, manage and execute the overall test plan per feature
● Maximize test coverage for the most critical features and most critical systems.
● Prioritize automation scenarios based on associated business risk.
● Investigate, debug and triage problems in automation, and work towards solutions independently or with others in the department, as necessary
● Identify and report bugs, with clear, efficient steps to reproduce
● Investigate customer problems referred by technical support
● Dive into code as technical challenges arise to perform root-cause analyses and implement resolutions
● Track the progress of defects and work closely with developers or system administrators to ensure they are fixed in a timely manner
● Ensure quality standards are being met throughout the development and release cycle
● Participate as a team-player that works together with your fellow team members to deliver commitments on time
● Work effectively with an internationally-distributed team across multiple time zones
● Develop proofs of concepts as needed
● Keep current with QA automation engineering best-practices, design principles, technology, security, and compliance in order to apply that knowledge to all of the responsibilities above
Requirements (What we’re looking for)
● Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or similar engineering major
● 2+ years of Quality engineering automation testing experience in a cloud-based environment, excluding internships
● Manual and automated testing experience in user interfaces and web services
● Experience with QA automation frameworks, scripting, and coding
● Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills
● Ability to work across the full technology stack (front-end plus back-end)
● Experience engineering in linux and/or MacOS environments
● Excellent written and verbal communication skills
● Authorization to work in a Brazil, or a LatAm country
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or similar engineering major
- 2+ years of quality engineering automation testing experience in a cloud-based environment (excluding internships)
- Manual and automated testing experience in user interfaces and web services
- Experience with QA automation frameworks, scripting, and coding
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills
- Ability to work across the full technology stack (front-end plus back-end)
- Experience engineering in Linux and/or MacOS environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Authorization to work in Brazil or a LatAm country
What We Do
Serious Development is a custom software development company specializing in creating tailored solutions for the healthcare industry, including health plans and TPAs. They focus on improving business workflows, reducing costs, and enhancing customer satisfaction by integrating AI and advanced automation into bespoke web and mobile applications, helping organizations scale and innovate.
