QA Engineer

Foundation Health; Manchester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare technology startup is looking for a QA Engineer in Manchester to ensure quality and functionality of a digital pharmacy platform. The candidate will collaborate with the engineering team, maintain test cases, and develop automation scripts using tools like Cypress or Playwright. With a focus on early involvement in product development, this role emphasizes strong testing practices for both front-end applications and APIs. Join us to help shape our QA standards in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in QA or software testing.
• Experience with manual and automated testing.
• Proficiency in automation frameworks like Cypress or Playwright.

Responsibilities

• Ensure quality and functionality of products.
• Execute and maintain test cases for front-end applications.
• Collaborate on core API platforms to ensure high-quality standards.

Skills

QA or software testing

APIs

Cypress

Playwright

Postman

Collaboration

Automation testing

Tools

Cypress

Postman

CircleCI

Docker

Job description

About Foundation Health

Foundation Health is transforming healthcare through an AI-powered digital pharmacy platform that seamlessly connects operational infrastructure with high quality patient experiences. Our mission is to transform patient centric care by connecting fragmented infrastructure, optimizing care coordination, and removing friction from the patient journey.

This ambitious vision is only achievable with the dedication of the right team propelling us forward. We firmly believe that a supportive and inspiring work environment fuels creativity, transforming it into groundbreaking innovation. It is this very innovation that not only benefits our organization but also positively impacts our people, partners, and most importantly, our patients.

Technology

Foundation Health is a start-up, offering an exciting chance to join early and help shape our tech and testing practices from the ground up. We aim to build our platform quickly and scalably by focusing on cloud-based, serverless services - allowing us to avoid the complexity of managing extensive infrastructure.

Our tech stack includes:

• Node.js & TypeScript for our backend services
• SvelteKit as our front-end framework
• Docker for containerization and efficient environment management
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP), using tools like Cloud Run and Cloud Functions for serverless operations
• Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enabling consistent, repeatable environments

This stack is designed for fast development cycles and scalable testing and deployment, giving us the agility to innovate and grow quickly. As a QA Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to shape how we test and deliver quality within this environment.

The Candidate

As we scale our engineering team, this role offers a great opportunity to help shape the direction of our QA practices and develop robust testing frameworks and standards for a rapidly evolving platform. We are looking for a QA engineer who values quality, enjoys collaboration, and can bring innovative ideas to a new and dynamic team with a focus on catching issues early before they get in to

What you will be doing

• Working with our engineering team to ensure the quality and functionality of our products.
• Involving yourself early in the process to refine user stories and requirements prior to sprint planning
• Creating, executing, and maintaining test cases for our front-end application
• Collaborating on new products and core API platforms to ensure high-quality standards.
• Developing and maintaining automation test scripts using Cypress or Playwright.
• Use Postman to support testing frontend scenarios
• Actively participating in demos and walkthroughs to offer quick feedback before merging
• Assisting in shaping our QA culture, standards, and tools as part of our development process.

What we are looking for

Essential

• 3+ years of experience in QA or software testing and APIs.
• Experience with QA on enterprise level products
• At least 1 year of experience in any automation testing framework
• Experience with manual and automated testing of web applications.
• Proficiency in either Cypress or Playwright for automated front-end testing.
• Experience with API testing tools like Postman
• Strong ability to work independently, instinctively take ownership and communicate effectively in a remote team setting.

Desirable

• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., CircleCI) to integrate tests within the development pipeline.
• Experience with exploratory testing
• Implementing cloud based mobile testing via BrowserStack or Saucelabs
• Familiarity with the QA role in 3 Amigos, Root Cause Analysis and Retrospectives.
• Experience in the healthcare or eCommerce industries.
• Exposure to containerized and serverless application testing on platforms like GCP.