Quality Assurance Specialist

  • Full-time

Company Description

Macadamian designs and develops digital experiences to improve healthcare. Our goal is to create solutions that are simple and meaningful, prioritizing the experience of the patient and the business needs of our clients. We want to work with people who are driven to disrupt healthcare—for the better. If you’re like us, you want to shake things up to explore the full potential of digital and connected health technologies to transform the healthcare system and make and keep people healthy no matter who they are or where they live.

Job Description

You will apply verification theories and principles to the quality control of assigned areas of software functionality. Your responsibilities may include: debugging of software code through the use of automated tests or testing tools to ensure functionality and quality standards are met; developing test cases; isolating, duplicating, and resolving problems; setup and debug of automation test equipment and test cases; developing automated test cases; providing input into the verification test planning, test configurations, technical problem resolution, and reporting of progress during the verification cycle of products; recommending alternatives to improve verification time and/or test coverage, defining test strategies and test plans for specific customer projects, aplying different testing types such as exploratory, regression, smoke, sanity, load and performance testing.

Qualifications

  • Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, able to document comprehensive procedures with precise detail that’s clarifying for other team members and the client;
  • Ability to make decisions, being a leader on the project representing the quality assurance team in front of the other leaders (development, project manager, product owner);
  • Experience with organising, planning, designing and execution of complex testing solutions 
  • Automation testing knowledge;
  • Very good analytical skills;
  • Flexibility to apply the appropriate testing strategy as per project needs;
  • Basic coding/scripting skills (Javascript/Python/C# etc.);
  • Advanced English speaker;
  • Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering;
  • 6-9 years of relevant experience or equivalent.

Nice to have:

  • Experience in the healthcare software domain;
  • Experience working in a regulated environment;
  • Experience with pharma, insurance, hospitals;
  • Experience with Medical devices and FDA submissions;
  • Basic knowledge of specific automation frameworks and practices (Selenium, Cucumber, Robot Framework etc.).

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

  • Cope well with  complex solutions and project situations;
  • Take ownership over the quality part;
  • You have full autonomy to deliver to predefined accountabilities;
  • Make decisions requiring significant analysis and interpretation;
  • Modify methods, techniques, and procedures to achieve desired results by getting involved actively in the client meetings, presenting and negotiating the team's point of view (release schedule & content, new feature integration, quality acceptance of a certain release etc.);
  • Elaborate and enhance the entire testing process; 
  • Propose improvements and validate change requests from a quality perspective on the software under test;
  • Design appropriate test plans by including the necessary tests/test types for each release;
  • You will work under general direction with respect to business objectives and company philosophy;
  • Perform different types of testing (exploratory, smoke testing, performance, usability, reliability, regression, acceptance etc.);
  • Your output is trusted as accurate and generally sound and is rarely reviewed;
  • You will consult with others as required on highly specialized or sensitive matters;
  • Lead/manage projects quality-wise and usually provide technical guidance to less experienced staff;
  • Work in an agile environment and be actively involved in the meetings (scrum, sprint planning, retrospective etc.);
  • Work closely with tools like Jira, Bugzilla, Continuous integration & repository tools (VSO, Jenkins, Git), Requirements management tools;
  • Assure that the testing and validation process complies with the healthcare domain through the latest standards in the business.

Values

  1. Trust
  2. Learning
  3. Be Nutty
  4. Passion
  5. Be Intentional
  6. Celebrate

Position Specific Competencies

  • Service Orientation - Go above and beyond regular client and organizational expectations by offering added value;
  • Accountability - Balances organizational, team and individual commitments;
  • Communication - Adapts communication to respond to audience or situational requirements;
  • Teamwork - Encourages others to participate in team activities, ensures teams are working effectively;
  • Leadership: Promotes and builds internal commitment;
  • Problem-solving: Analyzes complex issues to develop approaches or solutions that are considered forward thinking and best practice.

Additional Information

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  • https://www.linkedin.com/company/macadamian/
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