Quality Assurance Engineer

PA Consulting; Boston (TX); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is looking for a passionate Quality Assurance Engineer to join their Health Data Platforms team in Boston, Texas. This role involves ensuring the highest quality standards in software development by applying test automation and quality assurance methodologies. The candidate will work with cross-functional teams to maintain complex cloud-based systems and enhance best practices in quality assurance.

Benefits

Group medical insurance

Health Savings Account with company match

401(k) Savings Plan with profit sharing

15 days paid vacation with option to buy additional days

Annual performance-based bonus

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years working experience.
• Hands-on experience with test automation tools such as Playwright.
• Familiarity with BDD using Cucumber.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the highest quality standards for products.
• Implement both API and UI testing for web app interactions.
• Define and execute test strategies within agile frameworks.

Skills

Test Automation

Quality Assurance

Agile

Debugging

Scripting

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field

Job description

The PA Health Data Platforms team is looking for an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer to play a core part of the software development maintenance and delivery process. By applying ingenuity to the building of data platforms for the clinical and biopharmaceutical community PA aspires to change the course of care across the medical spectrum.

The team develops and maintains complex cloud-based systems to store and deliver sensitive clinical data to physicians regulators and scientists. We are looking for a passionate Quality Assurance Engineer to join our dynamic team and ensure the highest quality standards for our products.

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Qualifications : Requirements :

Minimum of 4 years working experience

Programming & Test Automation

• Hands-on experience with test automation tools and frameworks including Playwright or similar.
• Familiarity with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) using frameworks such as Cucumber.
• Experience in implementing both API and UI testing to validate end-to-end web app interactions.
• Ability to effectively balance manual and automated testing efforts.

Quality Assurance & Test Management

• Solid understanding of test planning design overall management of the QA lifecycle.
• Practical experience with functional regression exploratory and manual testing methodologies.
• Skilled in defining and executing test strategies within agile frameworks to ensure comprehensive validation of new features.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI / CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Proficiency in version control and environment provisioning to ensure scalable test environments.
• Knowledge of SQL for querying and managing databases in test environments.
• Experience with Shell / Bash scripting to automate and streamline test workflows.
• Ability to contribute to DevOps practices enhancing the efficiency reliability and scalability of test automation workflows.

Cross-Team Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Strong collaboration skills with developers product owners and cross-functional teams.
• Effective communication skills to advocate for QA best practices.

Education

• Bachelors degree in computer science or a related field.

Additional Information :

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment including up to 5 days per week on a client site

Benefits package at PA

• Group medical insurance
• Health Savings Account with company match
• Teladoc and informed Nurse line resources
• Long term care plan
• Vision plan
• 401(k) Savings Plan with company profit sharing contribution
• Commuter and Parking tax-savings benefit
• 15 days paid vacation days with the opportunity to buy five additional days
• Company and Voluntary income protection benefits
• Gym and health incentive reimbursement
• Pet and legal insurance Plans
• Employee Assistance Plan
• Annual performance-based bonus

In compliance with Colorados New York & Massachusettss Equal Pay Transparency Act PA is required to provide a reasonable salary range for this role. This salary range is specific to the State of Massachusetts and is commensurate with experience market data applicant skills internal equity and / or degrees / certifications. Salary Range : Low : $ 80000 - High : $110000

Remote Work : Employment Type :

Full-time

Key Skills

Test Cases,Performance Testing,Quality Assurance,SOC,Agile,Debugging,Jira,Perl,Software Testing,Test Automation,Scripting,Selenium

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

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