2 days ago
Base Salary
$110k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own quality engineering strategy, test architecture, tooling selection, and coverage targets across multiple applications and repositories.
- Set automation framework standards, maintain reusable fixtures and utilities, manage dependencies and versions, and review test-framework pull requests.
- Own CI/CD test orchestration, including triggered and nightly runs, health checks, artifacts, version gating, reporting, and notifications.
- Lead release-readiness and go/no-go decisions using risk assessments, validation evidence, and quality metrics.
- Drive shift-left quality practices across Agile Scrum teams and incorporate testability and quality gates into delivery processes.
- Own HIPAA and SOX test-practice compliance, including PHI handling, access controls, audit trails, and requirement-to-test traceability.
- Define and improve quality metrics such as automation coverage, flake rate, escape rate, MTTR, and regression runtime.
- Mentor QA/SDET engineers through code review, pairing, onboarding, technical roadmaps, and career development.
- Set standards for performance, load, resilience, and responsible AI-assisted QA workflows.
- Remain hands-on by designing, building, and maintaining automation for high-risk portfolio areas and validating off-hours deployments.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software QA or test engineering experience, including 7+ years of hands-on test automation and 3+ years as a lead, staff, or principal-level technical owner.
- Demonstrated ownership of test architecture and automation standards across multiple applications or teams.
- Expert programming ability in Java and/or Python and strong test-design skills, including Page Object Model and dependency management.
- Deep experience with Playwright and/or Selenium WebDriver, JUnit 5 or TestNG, and Maven or Gradle.
- Hands-on API test automation experience with tools such as REST Assured or Postman, including schema, contract, and authentication validation.
- Experience owning CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Bamboo, or similar tools, including scheduled runs, artifacts, and reporting.
- Advanced SQL and relational database skills, such as MySQL, with regulated-data test-data management experience.
- Experience setting performance and load-testing strategy using tools such as JMeter, k6, or Gatling.
- Experience with AWS or Azure, containers such as Docker, and cloud-native test execution.
- Practical experience with observability tools such as Datadog or CloudWatch and application logs.
- Working knowledge of HIPAA, SOX, HL7, FHIR, and validated or regulated software environments.
- Proven mentorship, technical-direction, cross-functional communication, and multi-quarter initiative ownership.
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- Preferred qualifications include Advanced-level ISTQB/ASTQB certification, laboratory or FDA-regulated experience, audit support, AI/LLM-assisted QA workflows, and scientific-domain knowledge.
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About Tempus
Tempus builds AI-enabled precision medicine tools and genomic tests used by physicians and health systems, with a core focus on oncology. It sells diagnostics, clinical decision-support software, and real‑world data services to providers and biopharma for drug discovery and trials. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Chicago, Tempus is a public company listed on Nasdaq.