QA Engineer (Imaging)

Job Description

Our client's initiative is transforming a dental market imaging product — a mature, on-premises Windows desktop application used by orthodontic and oral surgeon clinicians — into a web-based product delivered through their cloud platform. This is a greenfield web engineering effort running in parallel with the existing desktop product, requiring a disciplined QA approach that validates new web functionality while ensuring parity with established clinical workflows.

As QA Engineer – you will be a quality tester for the web team, building automated test coverage from the ground up and working shoulder-to-shoulder with frontend and backend engineers in a Scrum environment.

Responsibilities

Test Strategy & Coverage

• Design and maintain a comprehensive test strategy for the web imaging product, covering functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end scenarios.
• Define acceptance criteria and test cases for new user stories in collaboration with engineering and product management.
• Ensure web feature parity with on-prem software functionality, identifying gaps and documenting clinical workflow deviations.
• Track and report test coverage metrics, defect trends, and release readiness across sprints.

Automated Testing 

• Build and maintain an automated test suite targeting a web UI.
• Implement end-to-end test scenarios covering user authentication, imaging workflows, data entry, and cloud sync interactions.
• Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring tests run on every build and results are visible to the team.
• Design tests to be stable, maintainable, and resilient to UI changes through appropriate use of locators, fixtures, and page object patterns.

API & Backend Testing

• Validate REST API contracts between the web frontend and backend services, using automated testing tools or Postman.
• Test cloud sync behavior between the on-prem client and cloud backend, verifying data consistency and conflict resolution.
• Collaborate with backend developers to identify and test edge cases in service integrations.

Defect Management & Collaboration

• Identify, log, triage, and track defects with clear reproduction steps, environment details, and severity assessments.
• Work closely with the Engineering Lead and senior architect to prioritize defects against sprint goals and release criteria.
• Participate in daily standups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives as an active Scrum team member.
• Provide clear quality assessments and go/no‑go input for sprint and release decisions based on test outcomes and residual risk.

Healthcare & Compliance Awareness

• Apply awareness of HIPAA data handling requirements when designing tests involving patient imaging data.
• Understand and respect data privacy boundaries in test environments, avoiding use of real patient data in automated test suites.
• Escalate any observations of data leakage or access control issues encountered during testing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
• 3+ years of experience in software QA engineering, with a significant portion in web application testing.
• Strong understanding of web application architecture: browser-server interaction, REST APIs, authentication flows, and state management.
• Experience writing and maintaining automated test frameworks, not just running scripts written by others.
• Solid defect reporting skills with experience in tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar.
• Demonstrated experience working in Agile/Scrum teams with sprint-based delivery.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and critical‑thinking skills with a risk‑based testing mindset.
• Fluent in English — must communicate effectively in writing and on video calls with a US-based team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across distributed teams.
• Able to work Eastern Time (ET) hours with a minimum 7-hour daily overlap.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing cloud-based SaaS products, particularly those with on-premises client integrations or sync components.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure Pipelines) and integrating automated tests into build workflows.
• Background in healthcare software testing, including familiarity with HIPAA compliance and/or FDA-regulated medical device software (Class II SaMD)
• Exposure to imaging, DICOM, or medical/dental software products — a strong differentiator.
• Experience with API testing tools (e.g. Postman, REST-assured, Playwright API mode).
• Familiarity with Windows desktop application testing 
• Experience working with global, distributed, or remote teams across multiple time zones.

Benefits

• Work remotely Monday - Friday, 40 hours a week (no weekends)
• Health Care Reimbursement
• Active Lifestyle Reimbursement
• Quarterly Home Office Reimbursement
• Did we mention it's REMOTE?!!

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