Associate Quality Assurance Engineer

Innovate With Purpose 

Do you want to work for a company that is innovating and making a difference to the health and wellbeing of people all over the world? We’re not about selling meaningless, unnecessary products for corporate profitability. You’ll be working on technology that will revolutionise global health systems so that we can finally get the healthcare we all want - a basic human right.

We like to think of ourselves as a community of start-ups where you can be your true, genuine self. Each of our product teams has the autonomy to decide how they operate and contribute towards our mission of providing each person with the right care at the right time and in the right place.

Orion Health is excited to be expanding our galaxy by recruiting for a number of stellar individuals to join our team to help us deliver to our global customer base. If you want to climb aboard the rocketship and help us revolutionise global health systems, astronomical opportunities await.

Position Purpose: 

Responsible for executing and maintaining automated and manual test suites. Has a good understanding of testing techniques and approaches and is comfortable with contemporary software development practices and dealing with constant change. Provides constructive feedback to others and assertively challenges assumptions on a per occasion basis.

As part of a project team, the Associate Test/Quality Assurance Engineer will interact with project team members to ensure the solution is fully tested, meeting all customer requirements, and passing all acceptance criteria. The Quality Analyst plays an essential role in helping the project team, meeting the customer’s expectations. Works on fast iteration cycles and tight deadlines using an agile/scrum methodology. 

The Associate Test/Quality Assurance Engineer works collaboratively with our internal teams and product owner on design, development, and delivery of our business solutions contributing towards the execution of manual and automated tests and ensure our code is of the highest quality; tackles complex infrastructure challenges with creative automation and configuration management solutions; helps improve, expand the coverage of deployment automation.

Success in this Role looks like… 

• Give suggestions on improvements of the application 

• Report, track, investigate and manage defects 

• Takes input from leaders and critically evaluates product and testing requirements and decisions 

• Consistently takes responsibility for delivery of quality outcomes in a sustainable fashion.

• Develops healthy relationships in the team

Business Unit: 

North America Professional Services. 

Key Relationships: 

• Internal: Project Manager, Solution Architect, Test/QA Lead 

• External: Client, Third Party Vendors 

Essential Functions: 

• Coordinates and performs tests at the quality control stage of the solution implementation lifecycle

• Gathers and studies information regarding the business problem, solution requirements and customer expectations 

• Translate business/system requirements into effective test scenarios and test cases that will provide assurance of the quality of the system

• Maintain requirements traceability so it is clear what requirements are being validated with test cases 

• Execute manual and automated test cases according to plan and document testing results. Confirm solution meets requirements; identify, qualify, and document any defects 

• Studies data collected during testing and evaluates the validity of the results 

• Perform exploratory testing to identify potential issues/defects that may not be documented in the requirements 

• Create and develop appropriate data for the test scenarios and test cases that enables the effective execution of test cases 

• Support project team and be an advocate for the quality of the solutions 

• Advise Test Lead of potential issues, risks and impacts associated with the solution 

• Identifies and analyses issues, bugs, defects and other problems, particularly when problems recur in multiple software solutions/products; recommends and facilitates solutions to issues 

• Continues testing and analysis until results are within acceptable product requirements and specifications 

Behavioural and Technical Capabilities: 

Task-focused: 

• Perseveres and drives for results when faced with difficulties and setbacks. Displays a strong task driven focus 

Analytical and Critical Thinking Skills:

• Develops logical ideas, approaches, and solutions to typical, unusual, or difficult situations or problems; demonstrates attention to detail 

Time Management: 

• Efficiently develops and implements plans to accomplish goals and deliverables. Manages time effectively

Technical ability: 

• Demonstrates a sound understanding the IT industry, development languages and has advanced problem-solving skills 

Communication skills: 

• Speaks, writes and presents effectively.. Gets points across clearly, concisely and quickly 

• Applies an understanding of how the software will be used in the real world to evaluate its fit for purpose 

• Considers non-functional requirements and finds creative ways to break software in order to help build robust, reliable applications 

• Produces easily understandable testing objectives and test artefacts

• Designs test suites using understanding of how products fit into solutions for a customer 

• Understands that automation increases product quality and productivity. Develops automated tests conforming to industry standards 

• Interprets security, clinical safety and privacy policies and contributes to team standards and guidelines that comply with the policy. Evaluates and uses advice and guidance on security strategies to manage identified risks 

• Keeps up to date with relevant technologies, testing techniques and test approaches. Pro-actively shares their knowledge within the team and actively participates within the wider testing and software development communities 

• Works under minimal supervision. Has good self- awareness and exercises personal responsibility. Plans own work to meet objectives in a timely and efficient manner 

Relevant Experience: 

• 3-5 years in software testing in relevant technologies

• Experience with testing and configuration management tools and techniques a plus 

• Experience testing web-based solutions and data integration solutions 

• Experience using testing tools and issue/defect tracking tools 

• Preferred understanding of technical concepts including HTML, web services, XML, javascript, messaging, Linux, Oracle DB, and SQL 

• Software development experience preferred–programming on java, javascript, cucumber, selenium, etc 

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and continuous integration tools 

• Experience in designing test plans, test scenarios and test activities 

• Exposure to big data technologies a plus – Apache Spark, Elastic search, Cassandra 

• Healthcare domain expertise working with data/analytics technologies is a bonus 

Education and Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science or engineering preferred