Job Description

OpenClinica is looking for a talented Software QA Engineer to test great user experiences for our clinical research technology products. You’ll work closely with a group of talented engineers, test engineers, and product owners to emphasize early discovery and resolution of defects; increase the reliability of our software; and automate testing so we can guarantee a quality user experience to our customers.

Our high-performing team is dedicated to delivering powerful yet easy to use web-based software and technology solutions for clinical research / clinical trials. Our users tackle challenging clinical research problems, manage highly complex data, and make difficult decisions to advance research and improve patient outcomes in highly regulated environments. Our Quality Engineering group focuses on building automated testing infrastructure to help ensure the highest quality experience for our users. We have a high profile project related to COVID research that you would contribute to right away.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist product owners with the development of product requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria, maintenance and annotation of defects list, and preparation of release documentation.
• Test the hell out of our products using automated testing (Cucumber, Gherkin, and Java PageObjects) and manual testing approaches.
• Conduct a wide variety of testing, including bug-finding, manual, automated, regression, performance, security, and REST API testing
• Establish and maintain practices for development and execution of automated regression and load testing
• Communicate with team members, internal stakeholders, and occasionally with customers to understand users’ needs, environments, key problems, and overall priorities.
• Implement capabilities and infrastructure that improve our product quality, scalability, monitoring, supportability, and maintainability
• Build & maintain a performance testing database
• Support Client Services personnel when assistance is needed to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues
• Engage in regular peer to peer code review practices with other team members

Your background

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Familiarness with EDC systems such as InForm, RAVE, Medrio, Castor, RedCap or others.
• 5+ years of experience in quality engineering, software engineering, web development, or a related field
• Proficiency with Java, RESTful web services, Git, and agile practices
• The aptitude to understand complex, technical issues
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Experience with Cucumber, Selenium, Spring, microservices architectures, and/or mobile testing a plus
• Experience in life sciences, healthcare, or industries with similar approaches to software quality management (GCP / GxP) a major plus

Nice to Have

• Experience with EDC integrations and data migrations in the clinical setting.

This is a full time, onsite position based in our Waltham, Massachusetts office. Interviews and initial work will be conducted remotely for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis.

What we offer:

Compensation is competitive and includes base salary + bonus. Benefits include:

• 401k plan with matching

• Flexible Spending Account

• Health and dental insurance

• Life insurance

• Short and long term disability

• Flexible paid time off

In addition, we offer some useful and fun perks, such as:

• A professional development budget just for you!

• Free parking to keep you sane

• Free gym to keep you healthy

• Free snacks to keep you nourished

• A fun culture and happy people!

Company Description

OpenClinica accelerates the pace of healthcare innovation by working to automate the clinical research process. We have a rapidly growing customer base, and while we’re a small company, we are already a globally recognized brand in clinical research. We offer valuable experience and opportunities for leadership that are hard to find elsewhere, as well as the opportunity to contribute towards accelerating COVID research.