Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description:

LiveData is looking for a hands-on, energetic, and highly adaptable Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Quality Assurance team.  You will be an integral part of a team effort to take our existing internal and external testing, release, and deployment processes and tools to a new level of excellence. 

You will work closely with software developers, Customer Success staff, Product Management, and our system integration partners to test our hybrid AWS cloud and on-premises solutions.

The ideal candidate is a fast learner and is energized by helping team members succeed in the development of the highest quality software possible. He or she will have worked in an Agile/Scrum development environment and employed best practices to ensure quality.

Responsibilities:

• Review Functional & Technical requirements, specifications, technical design documents, and end-user documentation to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases for functional, regression, and end-to-end testing, including both back-end and front-end testing of entire systems, subsystems, and interfaces to other systems
• Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing activities
• Contribute to testing areas such as Data, Functional, Security, Accessibility, Integration, Internationalization, Localization, Performance, Installation, and Browser/OS testing
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using industry-standard automation tools
• Identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs
• Perform thorough regression testing 
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements
• Create traceability and requirements coverage matrices to ensure the quality of the features under test 
• Set up and maintain test data and test environments
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Verify deployments for both major, minor, and patch releases
• Monitor and report to management and/or technical lead on project status, identify issues that may impede the attainment of goals, recommend and implement corrective measures 
• Observe Agile/Scrum methodologies and best practices
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and strategies
• ‘Own’ the assigned project and stay on top of all project activities, issues, risks, deliverables, milestones, and dependencies

This role can be on-site, hybrid, or fully remote, but with a preference for local candidates.

Skills, Experience & Education Needed:

Required:

• Proven work experience in software quality assurance‬
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Postman, Swagger, etc.)
• Solid knowledge of SQL and familiarity with a scripting language (Python, JavaScript)
• Familiarity with JIRA and Git/GitHub
• Familiarity with test repository tools such as TestRail, Zephyr, etc.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience working in a cloud environment (AWS preferred)
• Ability to work in a dynamic, small team environment  
• Excellent oral, written, and analytical skills 
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous quality improvement 
• Excellent problem-solving/troubleshooting skills and attention to detail 

Preferred:

• Knowledge of, or experience in, the field of healthcare software development/QA a plus
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus

Why LiveData?

Surgery is one of the most challenging times in most people's lives. This is a rare opportunity to help build leading-edge cloud-based surgical software producing a meaningful impact on improving patient outcomes. 

LiveData PeriOp Manager is our AWS serverless solution that makes surgery safer for patients and easier for surgeons to deliver. With the trust of customers, including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Veterans Administration, we've already helped manage over a million surgeries. We are a small team looking for people ready to have a big impact. Sound like you?

About Us  

LiveData develops and deploys healthcare IT solutions, focusing on surgical workflows, to enhance productivity and safety for hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs).  LiveData PeriOp Manager provides the most comprehensive real-time logistics solution designed for clinicians to optimize surgical workflows. The need to increase productivity has become even more critical due to ongoing staff shortages and COVID-related disruptions.

LiveData PeriOp Manager integrates with Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems to enable high-performance clinical teams to complete more surgeries per day with the same staff and resources, providing millions of dollars of incremental margins, along with increased patient safety.  LiveData solutions provide significant benefits to patients, providers, and payers.  

Installed at 80 hospitals and 675 operating rooms that have performed over 1 million surgeries using the LiveData solution.  Leading medical institutions, including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, community hospitals, and over 75 Veterans Health Administration facilities, have selected the LiveData solution to improve patient safety, team communication, perioperative access, and efficiency.

LiveData is profitable, debt-free, and has well-established customers and a meaningful mission to help improve surgery.  LiveData was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the 2022 Best Places to Work in Healthcare.

LiveData is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Our attractive small company benefits and culture include

• Competitive salary package
• A fun, collaborative environment
• A real entrepreneurial spirit, drive, and mission to make a tangible difference in the world
• Hybrid schedule, working remotely some or all of the time
• 100% healthcare, vision, and dental benefits, along with a matching 401K

To be considered for this important role, please send your cover letter and resume to jobs@livedata.com. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.