Compensation:
Chicago/National: $100,000-$135,000
SF/NY: $115,00-$150,000
Tempus AI is a cutting-edge clinical laboratory coupled with powerful automation capabilities. We continually strive to deliver quality results to our patients as quickly as possible. As a Senior QA Engineer, you will embed with one or more Agile Scrum teams to validate and continuously improve our in-house developed software. This is a hands-on engineering role: you will design and maintain UI, API, and data-validation test frameworks in Java and Python, wire them into CI/CD so they run unattended against every build. You will gain experience with modern test tooling, cloud-native delivery, and AI-assisted testing. Knowledge of genetic testing, molecular biology, or other scientific disciplines is a strong plus but is not required. This is a fantastic opportunity to engage in a positive and creative work environment that offers great benefits and opportunities for growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Participate with your teams in Agile Scrum ceremonies, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives; represent quality and testability from the start of a story, not at the end of the sprint.
- Build and maintain automated tests for web UI, REST APIs and databases, and hold test code to the same standards as production code.
- Own the regression suites for your applications: grow coverage, fix or remove flaky tests, and keep them running in CI/CD after every deployment and nightly.
- Test for HIPAA and SOX compliance, including how PHI is handled, who can access it and what gets logged, and keep tests traceable to requirements.
- Analyze test results and triage failures quickly: separate real product defects from environment, data, and test-harness issues, identify root cause, and drive resolution with clear, reproducible bug reports.
- Validate scheduled night-time and off-hours deployments, and confirm post-deployment health in lower and production environments.
- Participate in risk assessments, validation processes, and release readiness reviews; provide a clear, evidence-based go/no-go quality recommendation.
- Maintain traceability from requirements and specifications through test cases to results, especially for regulated components.
- Apply AI-assisted tooling responsibly to accelerate test authoring, failure triage, and coverage analysis, while remaining accountable for the correctness of every test that ships.
- Mentor junior QA engineers through pairing and code review, and help internal users troubleshoot when needed.
Qualifications
- 8+ years in software QA, including 5+ years writing test automation.
- Strong programming ability in at least one language used for automation, Java and/or Python preferred
- Hands-on UI automation with Playwright or Selenium.
- API testing with REST Assured, Postman or similar, including schema, contract and authentication checks.
- Experience running tests in CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI or similar), with reporting such as Allure.
- Solid SQL (e.g., MySQL) and a careful approach to test data when it's regulated.
- Experience with performance and load testing using tools such as JMeter, k6, or Gatling.
- Working knowledge of HIPAA, HL7 and FHIR.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Preferred
- ISTQB/ASTQB certification.
- Experience with AWS (ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3) or Azure, and with Docker.
- Experience in a regulated environment such as a CLIA/CAP lab, FDA, SOX.
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Skills Required
- 8+ years in software quality assurance, including 5+ years writing test automation
- Strong programming ability in at least one automation language; Java and/or Python preferred
- Hands-on UI automation experience with Playwright or Selenium
- API testing experience with REST Assured, Postman, or similar, including schema, contract, and authentication checks
- Experience running tests in CI/CD using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar
- Experience with test reporting such as Allure
- Solid SQL experience, such as MySQL, with careful handling of regulated test data
- Experience with performance and load testing using JMeter, k6, Gatling, or similar
- Working knowledge of HIPAA, HL7, and FHIR
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- ISTQB or ASTQB certification
- Experience with AWS or Azure and Docker
- Experience in a regulated environment such as a CLIA/CAP lab, FDA, or SOX environment
What the Team is Saying
Tempus AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is considered solid, with PPO coverage often described as good and medical, dental, and vision options broadly available. Feedback suggests the overall health offering is a relative strong point despite mixed comments on premiums.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is frequently characterized as flexible, with reports of unlimited or generous PTO in many corporate roles. Feedback suggests policies can vary by team, but the offering is generally viewed favorably.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Workplace perks such as free meals/snacks, on-site amenities like a barista, gym discounts, and commuter benefits are commonly highlighted. Feedback suggests these lifestyle benefits add day-to-day value, especially at larger offices.
Tempus AI Insights
What We Do
We bring together one of the world’s largest libraries of multimodal clinical and molecular data with a robust suite of AI tools to help physicians personalize care in real time, connect patients with therapies and clinical trials, and enable partners to accelerate discovery and development of new treatments. With ~8 million de-identified research records and 350+ petabytes of data, Tempus partners with more than half of U.S. oncologists and the majority of the top 20 global pharma companies. Our teams are pioneering work across oncology, neurology, psychiatry, cardiology, and beyond—transforming how care is delivered and therapies are developed. At Tempus, every role contributes to our mission: to help each patient benefit from the experiences of those who came before. For more information, visit tempus.com.
Why Work With Us
We’re looking for people who can change the world. People who question the status quo and refuse to shy away from tough problems. For builders who are never done building, and the learners who are never done learning. Passionate individuals with undying curiosity who want to take on one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced—head on.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Most of the team follows a hybrid policy, with some roles allowing for a fully remote arrangement and some roles being onsite only.
