3 days ago
Irving, TX, USASenior
Base Salary
$89k - $156k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead quality strategies, standards, automation patterns, and risk-based validation for applications, APIs, integrations, data flows, and user experiences.
- Review requirements, designs, acceptance criteria, and technical approaches to identify ambiguity, risks, dependencies, and testability concerns.
- Design and maintain automated tests for web applications, APIs, integrations, workflows, databases, and data pipelines.
- Develop end-to-end, integration, regression, smoke, functional, exploratory, performance, accessibility, and security tests.
- Validate REST APIs, authentication, authorization, event-driven integrations, asynchronous processing, distributed systems, and cross-layer data flows.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and establish quality gates for pull requests and deployments.
- Lead failure analysis, defect triage, root-cause analysis, risk assessment, fix verification, and regression protection.
- Contribute to accessibility, security, performance, resilience, observability, and operational-readiness validation.
- Define evaluation approaches for AI-enabled and agentic capabilities, including accuracy, consistency, relevance, safety, explainability, and appropriate behavior.
- Participate in technical design, refinement, code reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, documentation, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor quality engineers and developers and promote shared ownership of quality throughout the development lifecycle.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Quality Assurance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Six or more years of experience in software quality engineering, software testing, test automation, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience defining and implementing quality strategies for complex applications and services.
- Strong experience developing and maintaining automated tests for web applications, APIs, integrations, and data workflows.
- Advanced experience with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or a comparable test automation framework.
- Experience testing REST APIs, authentication, authorization, event-driven integrations, and distributed systems.
- Experience with test planning, test design, defect management, regression testing, and root-cause analysis.
- Experience validating data with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and delivery workflows.
- Experience with data-level testing, event-driven systems, asynchronous processing, or distributed applications.
- Experience with accessibility, security, performance, resilience, and observability testing.
- Familiarity with reusable test utilities, test data management, quality reporting, and test architecture.
- Strong understanding of software development, testing, and quality engineering lifecycles.
- Ability to analyze requirements and technical designs for risks, gaps, dependencies, and testability concerns.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, documentation, leadership, and collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience with Java, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Kafka, or Azure.
- Preferred experience with Azure DevOps Test Plans, GitHub Actions, Harness, Kubernetes, AKS, or other CI/CD and cloud technologies.
- Preferred experience testing AI-enabled applications, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, or AI-generated outputs.
- Preferred experience working in an AI-native or Software Factory development model.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits plan.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring three days per week in the Irving, Texas office.
- An in-person interview is required.
- Incentive eligible.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAzureCypressGitHub ActionsHarnessJavaKubernetesPostgreSQLReactSeleniumSpring BootSQLTypeScript
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About Vizient
Vizient provides healthcare performance improvement solutions to U.S. hospitals and health systems, combining a group purchasing organization with clinical, operational, and financial analytics and advisory services. Members access a national contract portfolio representing about $156 billion in annual purchasing volume and benchmarking data drawn from extensive provider networks. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, the privately held company serves more than two-thirds of U.S. acute care providers and acquired Kaufman Hall in 2024.