Sr. QA Engineer

Tempus AI; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempus AI, a cutting-edge clinical laboratory with automation, is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join one or more Agile Scrum teams. This hands-on role designs and maintains UI, API, and data-validation test frameworks in Java and Python, integrates with CI/CD, and runs unattended against every build.

You’ll work on HIPAA/SOX compliance, triage failures, maintain regression suites, and mentor junior QA engineers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software QA including 5+ years in test automation.
• Strong programming in Java and/or Python for automation.
• Hands-on UI automation using Playwright or Selenium.
• API testing with REST Assured, Postman or similar.
• Experience running tests in CI/CD with GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab CI.
• Solid SQL (MySQL) and careful handling of regulated test data.
• Experience with performance/load testing (JMeter, k6, Gatling).
• Knowledge of HIPAA, HL7 and FHIR.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Participate in Agile ceremonies and represent quality from the start of a story.
• Build and maintain automated tests for web UI, REST APIs and databases.
• Own regression suites and keep them running in CI/CD after deployments.
• Test HIPAA and SOX compliance, including PHI handling and access logging.
• Analyze test results and triage failures with reproducible bug reports.
• Validate night-time deployments and health in environments.
• Participate in risk assessments and release readiness reviews with evidence-based go/no-go decisions.
• Maintain traceability from requirements to results for regulated components.
• Apply AI-assisted tooling to accelerate test authoring and coverage while ensuring correctness.
• Mentor junior QA engineers and assist internal users.

Skills

Automation

Java

Python

UI automation

API testing

CI/CD

SQL

Performance testing

HIPAA knowledge

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

REST Assured

Postman

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

JMeter

K6

Gatling

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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