Sr. QA Engineer

Tempus; California; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempus is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join Agile Scrum teams, embedding with one or more teams to validate and improve our in-house software. You will design and maintain UI, API, and data-validation test frameworks in Java and Python, wiring them into CI/CD to run unattended against every build.

You will gain experience with modern test tooling, cloud-native delivery, and AI-assisted testing, while mentoring junior QA engineers and ensuring HIPAA/SOX compliance and traceability from

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software QA; 5+ years writing test automation.
• Strong programming ability in Java and/or Python; hands-on UI automation with Playwright or Selenium.
• API testing with REST Assured, Postman or similar; schema, contract and authentication checks.
• Experience running tests in CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI); reporting with Allure.
• Solid SQL and careful test data handling for regulated environments.
• Experience with performance/load testing (JMeter, k6, Gatling).
• Working knowledge of HIPAA, HL7 and FHIR.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies and ensure quality from story start.
• Build and maintain automated tests for UI, REST APIs, and databases.
• Own regression suites and keep them green in CI/CD; fix flaky tests.
• Test HIPAA and SOX compliance; ensure PHI handling and logs traceability.
• Analyze results, triage failures, identify root cause and document bugs.
• Validate night-time/off-hours deployments and post-deploy health.

Skills

QA experience

Automation testing

Playwright

Selenium

REST API testing

CI/CD

SQL

Performance testing

HIPAA/HL7/FHIR

Education

BS in CS or related field

Tools

REST Assured

Postman

JMeter

k6

Gatling

Docker

AWS

Azure

Job description

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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Tempus was founded in August of 2015 by Eric Lefkofsky, after his wife was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Shortly after he founded the company in an effort to bring the power of technology and artificial intelligence to cancer care, he convinced Ryan Fukushima to join as the company’s first employee. Ryan and Eric began assembling a world class team, focused on building the first version of a platform capable of ingesting real time healthcare data in an effort to personalize diagnostics. We built the platform for oncology and have expanded it to neuropsychiatry, cardiology, infectious disease (through COVID), and radiology. Despite our rapid growth, our mission remains the same—to help make sure patients are on the right drug at the right time, so they can live longer and healthier lives. We’re looking for people who can change the world. Who question the status quo and don’t shy away from tough problems. For the builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. We’re looking for passionate people with undying curiosity. Those who want to attack one of the most challenging problems mankind has ever faced. Head on.