Quality Assurance Engineer

About the role

At Commence, we're dedicated to transforming healthcare through data-centric solutions, enhancing patient care and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Owning the design, execution, and continuous improvement of testing strategies across full-stack applications built on .NET, React, and AWS.
• Ensuring that software delivered to federal and commercial health clients meets the highest standards of reliability, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Executing manual and automated tests against RESTful APIs, front-end components, and back-end services; documenting and triaging defects with reproducible steps and clear severity classifications.
• Building and maintaining automated test frameworks using tools like Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent; integrating automated test execution into CI/CD pipelines.
• Validating AWS-hosted and serverless application deployments, including regression testing post-deployment across staging and production environments.
• Conducting API-level testing using tools such as Postman, RestAssured, or SoapUI to validate contracts, error handling, and data integrity between front-end and back-end systems.
• Developing and executing performance and load tests to validate system behavior under expected and peak conditions; identifying bottlenecks and working with engineers to remediate.
• Ensuring compliance testing coverage against HIPAA, NIST, and healthcare regulatory standards; validating data handling, access controls, and audit logging meet contractual and regulatory requirements.
• Partnering with Full-Stack Engineers during development to shift testing left—reviewing requirements, providing testability feedback on designs, and pairing on unit and integration test coverage.
• Maintaining clear, up-to-date test documentation including traceability matrices, test reports, and defect logs; communicating test status and quality risk clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contributing to the team's quality culture by establishing testing standards, improving testing processes, and mentoring engineers on testing best practices.
• Staying current with industry trends in test engineering, automation tooling, and quality assurance methodology.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software test engineering, QA engineering, or a closely related role with demonstrated ownership of test strategy and execution.
• Proficiency in automated testing frameworks and tools applicable to .NET/C# and React environments (e.g., xUnit, NUnit, MSTest for backend; Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, or Playwright for frontend).
• Hands-on experience with API testing, including REST API validation, response schema verification, and error condition coverage.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or equivalent).
• Solid understanding of test design techniques including boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, and exploratory testing.
• Experience with performance and load testing tools (e.g., JMeter, k6, Locust, or equivalent).
• Experience working with cloud-hosted applications; familiarity with AWS service behaviors and how deployment architecture affects testability.
• Working knowledge of relational and/or NoSQL database testing, including writing queries to validate data integrity.
• Experience with version control systems (Git-based) and collaborative development workflows.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with meticulous attention to detail.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills; ability to document defects and test results that engineers and non-engineers can act on.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing in federal health IT environments, or regulated industries with compliance requirements (HIPAA, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP).
• Familiarity with document management systems and OCR workflow testing, including accuracy validation for extracted data.
• Experience with security testing concepts (OWASP Top 10, SAST/DAST tooling integration, penetration test support).
• Experience with AWS Certifications or demonstrating experience validating AWS-hosted serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, SNS).
• Exposure to AI/ML model output validation or testing non-deterministic system outputs.
• ISTQB certification or equivalent structured quality engineering credential.
• Experience with contract or data transformation testing in healthcare interoperability contexts (HL7, FHIR).

Work Environment/Physical Demands

The work environment and physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is a remote position. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in a climate-controlled environment. Candidates must be able to sit, read, work on a computer, and watch a computer screen for extended periods of time. Occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers, kneel or crouch.

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package including health insurance, retirement savings plan, and paid time off.

Pay

Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

This is a full-time, remote position.