Quality Assurance Engineer III

Avalon Healthcare Solutions, headquartered in Tampa, Florida, is the world's first and only Lab Insights company, bringing together our proven Lab Benefit Management solutions, lab science expertise, digitized lab values, and proprietary analytics to help healthcare insurers proactively inform appropriate care, reduce costs, and improve clinical outcomes. Working with health plans across the country, the company covers more than 36 million lives and delivers 7-12% outpatient lab benefit savings. Avalon is pioneering a new era of value-driven care with its Lab Insights Platform that captures, digitizes, and analyzes lab results in real time to provide actionable insights for earlier disease detection, ensuring appropriate treatment protocols, and driving down overall cost.

Studies show that 30% of clinical laboratory testing is unnecessary or overused. Inappropriate testing or missing a key screening can lead to complications and expense arising from unwarranted care, or not obtaining proper care when needed, leading to increased health risks and costs. Avalon helps ensure delivery of the right test, at the right time, and in the right setting. We seek to ensure the most effective patient treatment, improve clinical outcomes, and optimize cost and affordability.

Avalon is a portfolio company of Francisco Partners, a global private equity firm that specializes in investments in technology and technology-enabled service companies.

Avalon is a high growth company where every associate has an opportunity to make a difference. You will be part of a team that shapes a new market and business. Most importantly, you will help Avalon to achieve its mission and improve clinical outcomes and health care affordability for the people we serve.

For more information about Avalon, please visit www.avalonhcs.com.

Avalon Healthcare Solutions is proud to be an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Avalon Healthcare Solutions provides and maintains a drug-free workplace for its employees.

For more about Avalon, please visit our web site at http://www.avalonhcs.com.

About the Quality Assurance Engineer III position:

As a Quality Assurance Engineer III, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our software products as well as driving the vision of QA automation. You will work collaboratively within your scrum team as well as cross team to solution for new features as well as troubleshoot medium-high complexity problems. Your ability to communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders, as well as IT Leadership will be essential in achieving our goals.

This position is eligible for remote work, but quarterly travel to the corporate office in Tampa, Florida will be required quarterly.

Quality Assurance Engineer III – Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Excellent understanding of QA methodologies, tools, and processes.


• Expert skillset with automation testing tools and scripting languages.


• Develop and define test strategies, plans, and maintain automation test data.


• Troubleshoot and debug medium-high complexity issues in the software


• Collaborate and communicate effectively to understand requirements and provide updates to both IT Leadership as well as business stakeholders.


• Capable of working individually and collaboratively


• Ability to clearly document functionality and defects


• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail


• Growth mindset driven to continuous improvement


• Mentor and grow team members a must.


• Displays ownership and pride in solutions delivered

Quality Assurance Engineer III – Minimum Qualifications:

• Four (4) to Eight (8) in a health care or related organization. Excellent understanding of Quality Assurance Engineering and expert level experience with one or many scripting languages.


• Undergraduate degree in Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline. Equivalent experience is acceptable in lieu of a degree(s).


• Excellent understanding of the SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle).


• Define and mature QA methodologies and processes


• Expert level skill in one or many scripting/programming languages


• Ability to translate applications Business Case into clear test scenarios/cases


• Perficient in systematic troubleshooting


• Ability to recommend areas of improvement through testing and statistical analysis


• Experience load testing


• Experience performance testing


• Expert understanding of SQL and data validation


• Basic understanding of SLA/SLI/SLO's


• Strong verbal and written communication skills


• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables


• Solid understanding of HTTP/REST fundamentals


• Solid understanding of JSON/XML/YAML fundamentals


• Experience with Agile and Scrum


• Proficient with standard business applications such as Word, Excel, etc.


• Mentors junior team members on processes, best practices, and new technologies.

Quality Assurance Engineer III – Preferred Qualifications:

• Expert level ability to script in one or more of the following:
  
  
  
  • JavaScript/Typescript (Preferred)
  
  
  • Bash
  
  
  • Python
  
  
  • PowerShell
  
  
  
  


• Verbose experience with E2E frameworks such as Playwright, Protractor, Cypress, or Selenium. (Playwright preferred)


• Working experience with Atlassian products such as Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket (or something comparable)


• Fluency in containerization/cloud technologies. Such as Docker, AWS ECS, AWS Fargate, Kubernetes/AWS EKS, AWS Lambda, S3.
  
  
  
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner or comparable Cloud experience a plus.
  
  
  
  


• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman/Newman


• Experience integrating automated testing within CI/CD frameworks


• Ability to recommend areas of improvement through testing and statistical analysis


• Solid understanding of networking concepts

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