Expert Software Engineer in QA Automation - Remote
Chicago, IL

Job Description

Overview

Be part of the dev team of the innovative leader in healthcare financial decision support. EPSi, an Allscripts company, is currently seeking a strong hands-on QA Automation Engineer to help us build out our brand-new, state-of-the-art, next generation platform in the cloud.

Do you want to make a difference? Are you ready to shape your future into an exciting career? Do you want to work in an exciting environment that will enable you to use your passion, experience, and skills to help change healthcare for the better?

With the right team, anything is possible. The talent of our team is what has made us a leader in healthcare budgeting and decision support. We hire the best people, and help them grow professionally, ensuring a bright future for our teams and our clients.

The primary purpose of this role is to perform Specification, Design, Coding, Testing, Documentation in the areas of Development and Maintenance. Other tasks as directed by line or Project Manager.

Open to Telework / Telecommute / Remote / work from home candidates, preferably in Central time zone

Responsibilities

* Lead engineering efforts related to automated testing - be the automation advocate
* Evaluate and recommend automation framework and tools
* Build an automated Smoke, Regression, and Integration testing framework and suite of tests
* Work within an Agile team to Identify, Create, Design, and Integrate test cases for repeatable, automated executions
* Perform manual testing activities as needed
* Testing to be covered may include unit, integration, functional, security, performance, load, scalability
* Use and maintenance of existing frameworks for Software Automation of test cases
* Development of innovative testing solutions
* Collaborate with Business Analysts, Developers, QA, and/or internal / external customers to ensure that requirements are understood and fully tested
* Identify and communicate risk and risk mitigation strategies
* Assist agile development teammates with issue analysis and corrective action
* Escalate product issues and suggest product improvements

Qualifications

Academic and Professional Qualifications:

* Successful completion of a Bachelor's Degree or relevant Technical / Business experience
* Able to work well with ambiguity and drive solutions to problems
* Good verbal and written communication skills
* Have a good attention to detail and an eye for quality

Experience:

* Candidates must possess 10+ years of overall software development experience
* Experience with cloud infrastructure components, preferably AWS
* Proficient in building and maintaining automated test suites
* Proficient in database fundamentals
* Proficient in testing Java-based applications
* Familiarity with a continuous integration tool such as Jenkins
* Familiarity with scripting languages
* Familiarity with Restful Web and/or Micro Services
* Familiarity with Postgres SQL
* Familiarity with Git, Jira, and Confluence
* Familiarity with automated browser testing using tools such as Selenium
* Familiarity with application testing (functional) as well as API testing (integration)
* Experience working in the Agile model
* Experience in the healthcare or financial domains desired
* Experience with large sets of data and data analytics desired

Travel Requirements:

* Able and willing to travel for occasional short assignments if needed.

Working Arrangements:

* Open to Telework / Telecommute / Remote / work from home candidates, preferably in Central time zone.


* Able to work Core hours, willing to be flexible in work schedule to accommodate various time zones of a global organization
* Work is performed in a standard office environment with minimal exposure to health or safety hazards

Allscripts offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, including holidays, vacation, medical, dental, and vision insurance, company paid life insurance and retirement savings.

Allscripts policy is to provide equal employment opportunity and affirmative action in all of its employment practices without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, age, individuals with disabilities, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression or any other legally protected category. Applicants for North American based positions with Allscripts must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada. Verification of employment eligibility will be required as a condition of hire.

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EPSi is a stand-alone brand, fully owned by Allscripts, with its own C-level and senior leadership. When you work for EPSi, you get the advantages and benefits of working with a large, public company with the innovative culture and direction and of a small, nimble company.