Senior QA Lead - Architect

Why Us?

With a mantra of Empowering Human Potential, Hanger, Inc. is the world's premier provider of orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) services and products, offering the most advanced O&P solutions, clinically differentiated programs and unsurpassed customer service. Hanger's Patient Care segment is the largest owner and operator of O&P patient care clinics nationwide. Through its Products & Services segment, Hanger distributes branded and private label O&P devices, products and components, and provides rehabilitative solutions to the broader market. With 160 years of clinical excellence and innovation, Hanger's vision is to lead the orthotic and prosthetic markets by providing superior patient care, outcomes, services and value. Collectively, Hanger employees touch thousands of lives each day, helping people achieve new levels of mobility and freedom.

The Role

The Senior QA Engineer - Remote writes clean, maintainable automation code and is passionate about building quality into clinical software from the ground up. Embedded within Agile development pods, you'll architect testing strategies, lead a domain area of QA ownership, and ensure coverage across API, Pub/Sub messaging, and UI layers of our .NET and React applications running on Azure and Oracle. Your Impact:

• L Eadership & Domain Ownership
• Architect end-to-end QA strategies and automation frameworks for a designated business domain or technology area (e.g. Guide Configurator, Oracle Fusion, Oracle Warehousing)
• Own QA metrics for your domain and present them regularly to domain leadership and executive management
• Mentor QA engineers on automation practices, testing methodology, and domain knowledge
• Champion QA best practices and share ideas across the broader QA community
• Operate with high autonomy on new assignments; may coordinate activities of other QA personnel

Day-to-day Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with developers and product owners to define test scenarios and acceptance criteria as part of Shift-Left QA practice
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites covering API, UI, and Pub/Sub messaging layers
• Execute multiple testing types: functional/system integration, regression, performance/load/stress, security vulnerability, accessibility/compliance, and UAT
• Identify, document, reproduce, and track defects; verify fixes and report resolution progress to management
• Review product design documentation to confirm requirements are correct, unambiguous, and verifiable
• Develop and maintain test data to support repeatable, comprehensive test execution
• Create and maintain test plans, design specifications, and test cases across all testing types
• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps
• Participate in Agile ceremonies — sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
• Facilitate test environment setup and conduct compatibility testing with vendor-provided programs
• Report automation risks and mitigation options to the QA Manager

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university
• 8+ years of QA experience on large-scale systems projects
• 5+ years of superior-level automation test scripting using commercial or open-source tools (Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, SpecFlow, Cucumber, NUnit, JMeter)
• Strong proficiency in C# and the .NET framework
• SQL knowledge for data validation
• Experience with Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipeline support and test management
• Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum development and Shift-Left QA practices
• Experience working across on-premises and cloud platforms (Azure, Oracle)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work across technical and business stakeholders

Preferred Skills

• Automation & testing
• Playwright
• Selenium WebDriver
• SpecFlow
• Cucumber
• NUnit
• JMeter
• Coded UI
• WATIR
• Languages & frameworks
• C# / .NET
• React
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• Test management
• Jira
• Zephyr
• Visual Studio

Additional Success Factors

• Knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, Automation, and processes
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum development process
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• SQL knowledge for data validation
• Experience with test management tools, such as Jira and Azure DevOps
• Increasing knowledge of Automated Unit, Functional, Regression, Performance, Data Migration/ Quality, System Integration, and User Acceptance Testing
• Increasing knowledge of API, UI, Pub/Sub messaging, functional application area, Data integration, and Data Quality Testing
• Increasing knowledge of Azure DevOps Server, C#, Playwright, SpecFlow, .NET Framework, React, Kubernetes, and Docker
• Increasing knowledge of Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Azure Fabric
• Increasing knowledge with test management tools such as Jira and Zephyr
• Increasing knowledge of containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and Azure Administration

Pay Range

Pay range of $138,000 to $170,000 annual salary + annual bonus: up to 10% of base pay depending on bonus criteria. This pay range is posted to comply with wage transparency laws. Hanger salary ranges vary based on skill, ability, knowledge, geographic location and other variables.