Overview

We’re looking for a smart, detail-oriented and creative quality assurance engineer who will be motivated by being part of a high-caliber team building meaningful products for our customers. You will be responsible for testing our cloud-based platform. Highly motivated candidates with strong fundamentals but without prior testing experience are encouraged to apply.

Job responsibilities:

• Write and execute test protocols
• Write and execute automated acceptance tests using tools such as RSpec and Capybara
• Configure and maintain testing environments
• Create and maintain sample datasets and tools to support testing
• Communicate with technology and professional services departments regarding identified issues Data analysis

The ideal candidate has:

• The ability to think carefully and precisely
• The desire and ability to persistently chase down software problems
• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Strong interpersonal skills
• The desire to provide great service to internal and external customers
• The ability to handle multiple, rapidly changing and competing priorities
• A BA/BS degree at minimum
• Knowledge of and experience in testing web-based applications
• Knowledge of and experience in software development (Ruby and/or Rails experience a plus)
• Knowledge of and experience in relational databases and SQL (MySQL experience a plus)
• Expertise with Excel
• Experience with Linux
• Knowledge of clinical trials or experience in pharma quality (GXP, 21CFR11, etc.) a plus

Reasons why you may want to pursue this opportunity:

• Work with motivated, smart, efficient and committed people
• See virtually all aspects of a growing, entrepreneurial company
• Build knowledge in an area that is essential to the health of society and critical to biopharma companies running clinical trials
• Work with a development team committed to clean code and usability
• Gain exposure to, and work on, the full software product lifecycle
• Have greater exposure to professional services and customers than is typical for this role

Reasons we will be interested in you:

You are enthusiastic, dedicated and smart–you fit our culture You have a passion for creation and implementation (software, a company, new processes) You are a crisp and precise thinker You can “zoom in and zoom out” – one minute discussing a detail of the software functionality, the next discussing risk and prioritization You learn and grow quickly You are good at explaining things You are or have the potential to be very efficient in all aspects of testing You have fun finding software defects