Job Description
Our client’s initiative is transforming a dental market imaging product — a mature, on-premises Windows desktop application used by orthodontic and oral surgeon clinicians — into a web-based product delivered through their cloud platform. This is a greenfield web engineering effort running in parallel with the existing desktop product, requiring a disciplined QA approach that validates new web functionality while ensuring parity with established clinical workflows.
As QA Engineer – you will be a quality tester for the web team, building automated test coverage from the ground up and working shoulder-to-shoulder with frontend and backend engineers in a Scrum environment.
Responsibilities
Test Strategy & Coverage
- Design and maintain a comprehensive test strategy for the web imaging product, covering functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end scenarios.
- Define acceptance criteria and test cases for new user stories in collaboration with engineering and product management.
- Ensure web feature parity with on-prem software functionality, identifying gaps and documenting clinical workflow deviations.
- Track and report test coverage metrics, defect trends, and release readiness across sprints.
Automated Testing
- Build and maintain an automated test suite targeting a web UI.
- Implement end-to-end test scenarios covering user authentication, imaging workflows, data entry, and cloud sync interactions.
- Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring tests run on every build and results are visible to the team.
- Design tests to be stable, maintainable, and resilient to UI changes through appropriate use of locators, fixtures, and page object patterns.
API & Backend Testing
- Validate REST API contracts between the web frontend and backend services, using automated testing tools or Postman.
- Test cloud sync behavior between the on-prem client and cloud backend, verifying data consistency and conflict resolution.
- Collaborate with backend developers to identify and test edge cases in service integrations.
Defect Management & Collaboration
- Identify, log, triage, and track defects with clear reproduction steps, environment details, and severity assessments.
- Work closely with the Engineering Lead and senior architect to prioritize defects against sprint goals and release criteria.
- Participate in daily standups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives as an active Scrum team member.
- Provide clear quality assessments and go/no‑go input for sprint and release decisions based on test outcomes and residual risk.
Healthcare & Compliance Awareness
Apply awareness of HIPAA data handling requirements when designing tests involving patient imaging data.
Understand and respect data privacy boundaries in test environments, avoiding use of real patient data in automated test suites.
Escalate any observations of data leakage or access control issues encountered during testing.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
3+ years of experience in software QA engineering, with a significant portion in web application testing.
Strong understanding of web application architecture: browser-server interaction, REST APIs, authentication flows, and state management.
Experience writing and maintaining automated test frameworks, not just running scripts written by others.
Solid defect reporting skills with experience in tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar.
Demonstrated experience working in Agile/Scrum teams with sprint-based delivery.
Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and critical‑thinking skills with a risk‑based testing mindset.
Fluent in English — must communicate effectively in writing and on video calls with a US-based team.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across distributed teams.
Able to work Eastern Time (ET) hours with a minimum 7-hour daily overlap.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience testing cloud-based SaaS products, particularly those with on-premises client integrations or sync components.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure Pipelines) and integrating automated tests into build workflows.
Background in healthcare software testing, including familiarity with HIPAA compliance and/or FDA-regulated medical device software (Class II SaMD)
Exposure to imaging, DICOM, or medical/dental software products — a strong differentiator.
Experience with API testing tools (e.g. Postman, REST-assured, Playwright API mode).
Familiarity with Windows desktop application testing
Experience working with global, distributed, or remote teams across multiple time zones.
Work remotely Monday - Friday, 40 hours a week (no weekends)
Health Care Reimbursement
Active Lifestyle Reimbursement
Quarterly Home Office Reimbursement
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