Quality Assurance Analyst (Entry-Level)

Are you interested in seeing your testing efforts positively impact countless patients' lives every day by building the future of healthcare? Are you hopeful about what data and medical research can do to improve medicine?

We are searching for a Quality Assurance Analyst that is excited about testing large production applications. As a QA Analyst on our ResearchPRO team, you will be a critical member of our engineering team revamping our existing software experience and helping build our future software from the ground up using modern technologies.

You will be regularly challenged to help test and maintain a scalable application that collects large amounts of information about patients and helps researchers perform complex data analysis. At PatientIQ, QA Analysts have the chance to work on different areas of our applications and tech stacks. You will be involved in the active testing of all the parts of our technical stack.

About us:

PatientIQ is a fast-growing health tech company empowering healthcare providers, industry, researchers, and others to collaborate on the mission to improve patient outcomes. PatientIQ is headquartered in Chicago and backed by top-tier west coast venture capital, major hospital investors, and others.

What you'll work on:

• PatientIQ Network: build the largest peer network for healthcare providers to collaborate, share de-identified data, and investigate rare diseases and novel techniques to push the boundaries of medicine
• ResearchPRO: comprehensive suite of research solutions that simplify electronic data capture (EDC) and enable the collection of better data - faster
• Patient Engagement: automate patient workflows based upon disease status, procedures, and other clinical events with our rules-engine and patient portal
• 3rd Party Integrations: grow our library of 3rd party integrations, including with electronic medical records, wearables, and other healthcare partners
• Scaling: refactor existing systems and optimize the platform for scaling and increasing data flow

Requirements

Role responsibilities:

• Assist with defining and refining user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Collaborate closely with your team of 4-5 Engineers, a Product Manager, a Designer, and Engineering Manager  to understand and test new product features
• Identify and debug simple issues, escalating when necessary
• Develop an understanding of our platform’s  user personas and their needs/workflows
• Analyze defects to determine how to improve our development process
• Work with others to perform root cause analysis, identify trends and corrective actions
• Assist in our deployment/release practices with regression testing.
• Thoughtfully plan and implement testing strategies for new and existing features.

What we look for:

• 0-2 years of hands on experience in testing Web Applications
• Creatively product-minded, interested in being proactive and fulfilling more than a given set of testing steps.
• Ability to convert business requirements to test cases
• Able to provide high level estimates on QA efforts based on work effort
• Comfortable executing test plans and test cases as well as ability to clearly analyze and present test results
• Ability to capture and report testing status, metrics and progress against a project plan
• Strong Communication: Able to communicate with internal customers in non-technical terms

Technologies our Engineering team uses

• Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Capybara, Selenium, CircleCI
• Javascript, React, Jest, React Testing Library
• GraphQL, Apollo
• PostgreSQL

Benefits

• Meaningful equity - our employees own a stake in PatientIQ and are emboldened to build something great
• Unlimited paid time off - we trust you to take the time you need when you feel it is appropriate, given your workload and responsibilities. No need to track it or save up.
• Comprehensive benefits package - including top-notch health, dental, vision insurance, and 401K
• Remote friendly - now and always
• True startup culture - Virtual happy hours, lunch and learns, team demo days, and more