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

To apply, please email your resume to careers@trialnetworks.com, along with a solution to the following exercise:

Write a list of test cases for a feature that allows a user to set his or her password where the password rules are:

Minimum 8 characters; whitespace not allowed; must include at least one character from 3 of the 4 character sets listed below:

• Upper case characters
• Lower case characters
• Numbers
• Special characters