Quality Assurance Engineer

Opala develops healthcare products that tackle the most complex data challenges faced by payers and providers. As a startup originating from a major healthcare plan in the Northwest, we combine deep health-tech expertise with top-tier data and software engineering talent to create products that our customers find meaningful and valuable. These data products empower payers and their partners to find timely insights and take action to intervene in areas like value-based care analytics, interoperability compliance, and real-time streaming of clinical data.

In this remote position, we are seeking a skilledQuality Assurance Engineerto join our team. This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in data testing, test case development, data analysis, test automation development, and API validation.

As a QA Engineer, you will be responsible for creating, defining, executing, and maintaining robust test cases and automation frameworks. Your work will play a key role in ensuring the quality, performance, and reliability of our systems and products.

Responsibilities

• Day to day: writing test cases, executing tests, update/creating test data, executing automation scripts, and test planning.

• Full lifecycle software testing, including requirement analysis, documentation/ procedures, and test implementation.

• Contribute to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

• Work cross-functionally with systems analysts, engineers, programmers, and others to design system and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements, and interfaces.

• Develop, store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent

• 5+ years software testing experience

• 2+ years scripting experience with Python

• 2+ years SQL experience

• 2+ years experience with Pytest

• Test case development and execution

• Experience testing APIs

Preferred Qualifications

• ETL Test experience

• Databricks/Azure

• Postman

• ISTQB CTFL Certified

• Jupyter Labs or Notebook

• Software development experience or background

• Healthcare data experience

• HL7 and/or FHIR

Benefits

• The Seattle base salary range for this full-time position is up $159k.Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, EAP, short-term and long-term disability, 16 days PTO, 8 paid holidays, fully paid holiday closure, parental and family medical leave, 401k, stock options and annual bonuses and salary increases based on merit.

Diversity and Inclusivity Statement

• At Opala, we believe that diversity and inclusivity are critical to our success. We encourage and value diverse perspectives and experiences, and we believe that they are essential for driving innovation and creating products that meet the needs of our diverse customer base.

Opala is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We are committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We celebrate the unique differences of our employees because that is what drives curiosity, innovation, and the success of our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.