QA Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled Software QA Engineer with expertise in Python and modern backend frameworks to join the alitheia team. This role is ideal for someone passionate about building scalable, secure, and high-performance APIs and services that power data-driven solutions. This is a hands-on QA role where you'll partner with developers, product management, data scientists, and underwriters to develop and execute automated testing solutions. You will work on mission-critical systems leveraging AI, electronic health records (EHRs), and other complex, sensitive medical data to make it easier for people to get essential life insurance coverage. The role sits in a high-impact team dedicated to building the industry's most advanced solution for medical risk assessment. The position offers substantial opportunity to shape a new solution, ship product quickly and see immediate impact.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute scalable automated tests across functional, integration, API, regression, and end-to-end testing to meet our quality and technology standards
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and feedback
• Develop and execute automated and manual test plans to support system and release validation
• Collaborate with developers, product management, and client implementation teams to deliver testing automation aligned to requirements, technical design, user stories and acceptance criteria
• Partner with the team to find and fix defects while continually improving our testing approach
• Provide testing insights, quality metrics, and assessment of defects and automation gaps to alitheia team
• Continuously improve and strengthen our quality processes and procedures. Keep current on emerging testing frameworks, tools, and technologies

Specialized Skills

• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, including smoke testing, functional testing, regression testing, unit testing
• Experience with automated testing, test automation tools, and test-driven development
• Experience with CI/CD tools and version control systems
• Professional experience with Python preferred; understanding of software design lifecycle (SDLC) best practices
• Familiar with API design tools/languages
• Experience with cloud computing and orchestration tools
• Experience with containerizations tools

Required Qualifications

• 3 years of Software Engineering experience
• 2 years of experience in Software QA Engineering
• 2 years of experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks
• 2 years of experience automating web applications, APIs, backend services, including end-to-end workflows
• 2 years of experience integrating testing automation into CI/CD pipelines
• Experience creating comprehensive test cases that cover happy paths, edge cases, and failure scenarios
• Excellent writing skills in delivering clear, detailed test documentation and reporting
• Comfort working collaboratively across functions

Challenges

• Integration of new processes across our platforms
• Working with new technologies

Pay

For New York City based employees, the base salary range anticipated for this position is $125,000-$145,000, plus an opportunity for an annual company bonus based upon a percentage of eligible pay. The salary estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for candidates hired in this position. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role.