Hybrid Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

at EnsoData

• Job title: Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $100,000 - $110,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cypress, JavaScript, Jenkins, Python, Selenium, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Madison, United States

About the role

• QA automation engineer responsible for building automation frameworks for healthcare technology. Ensuring quality and regulatory compliance for Software as a Medical Device products.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain a robust, scalable, and maintainable E2E automation framework (e.g., using Playwright) from scratch.
• Design and implement effective test data creation, cleaning, and management strategies.
• Define, monitor, and report on key quality metrics to drive product and process improvements.
• Develop and execute automated verification test cases and procedures to verify system requirements for our Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) products.
• Break down feature components and design specifications into structured test plans, considering functionality, user experience, and regulatory risks.
• Develop and manage verification testing, which may be manual, semi-automated, or fully automated.
• Integrate automation tests into CI/CD pipelines to provide rapid feedback to the engineering team.
• Act as the subject matter expert for testing processes, ensuring regulatory compliance (FDA QSR, ISO 13485) through rigorous software testing, issue tracking, and documentation.
• Collaborate closely with design, engineering, and product teams to identify gaps, mitigate risks, and ensure quality is built into the development lifecycle.
• Work with customer success and engineering teams to investigate, reproduce, and verify bug fixes.
• Write and improve process documents related to the software testing lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years in Quality Assurance or a related technical role.
• Proven experience building an E2E automation framework from the ground up.
• Strong proficiency with a scripting language (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript) for writing automated tests.
• Direct experience with modern UI automation tools (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium).
• Experience designing automated test frameworks using Page Object Model (POM) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) with Cucumber.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and tools (e.g., BitBucket Pipelines, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence) and version control (Git).
• Knowledge of relational databases.
• Excellent communication skills in a remote/hybrid environment.
• Personal qualities of integrity, perseverance, and commitment to the mission.

Benefits

• Remote and flexible schedule - we are a remote company with hybrid options and support for flexible schedules!
• Health, dental, and vision insurance with options to choose a plan that fits you and your dependents needs.
• Paid time off options - we want our employees to rest, recharge, and feel better.
• Stock options - we want team members to feel ownership in the organization.
• Company Bonus Program - if we do well, we want to reward our team members!
• 401k to help people invest in the future.
• Team Summits!