Lead Automation Engineer

It is an exciting time to be part of the PatientPoint team! As the clear leader in the point-of-care industry, we offer an ideal, people-focused place to innovate, positively impact patient education and doctor-patient connections, and be inspired to build a great career.

Location: Chicago

Schedule: Hybrid (1-2 days a week in office)

Job Summary
You will be developing test automation for our products in the enterprise, mobile, or healthcare space. You'll work with all aspects of the product and platform development, including collaborating with hardware, media content, and design engineering teams to build our test automation solutions.

The Lead Automation Engineer plays an essential role in ensuring the quality of products and platforms. The primary responsibility will be to work in partnership with developers, product owners, and QA Team to define, design, and build or modify existing automation. You will develop a deep understanding of our products and the complex use cases to test them.

You will also create a robust set of automated tests that will result in a deep and flexible set of tests that become the primary foundation of our regression deployment and continuous delivery testing. In addition, you'll be responsible for maintaining these frameworks by following the current standards along with coordinating test execution, training users, and providing user support.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with their Agile team and actively contributes in all Agile ceremonies to define story acceptance criteria for feature and maintenance development.
• Analyze system requirements and review technical specifications to assess, evaluate, and create testing requirements for all software components for functional and end-to-end scenarios.
• Follows and coaches' best practices for construction and utilization of Hybrid Testing Framework (data-driven, Keyword Driven) to support Dev and DevOps in Test/Behavior-driven designs and DevOps CI/CD pipelines for test automation/integration.
• Design, construct and maintain automated test reporting infrastructure for providing technical, project, and business visibility to software quality.
• Assist with performance test creation, execution, and integration into CI/CD.
• Works as a multi-skilled professional practicing SAFe Agile in both a SCRUM/Kanban methodology.
• Taking part in continuous improvement through sharing of knowledge and coaching within the team while constantly participating and encouraging a shift-left mindset.

What We Need

• 8+ years of total professional experience
• 5+ years of experience in software testing and test automation of web- and API- based solutions
• 5+ years of experience working on Agile teams
• 3+ years in a Technical QA Leadership role
• 2+ years of experience with Postman and/or SoapUI/ReadyAPI
• 2+ years experience in load testing tools such as JMeter, Loadrunner, or SoapUI
• Expertise designing, implementing, and coaching team members on Automation Frameworks like TDD/BDD, Keyword, POM, and Hybrid Frameworks (e.g., Selenium)
• Experience with test automation tools like Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber
• Experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
• Strong knowledge in RESTful architecture and design.
• Experience with SQL language in one or more database platforms (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL)
• Experience with Node.js, and testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Chai, Typescript, Cypress, or Puppeteer
• Experience with version source control systems and Git flow
• Hands-on experience with mobile automation (preferably Android)
• Familiarity with development build environments (e.g., Jenkins, Maven, etc.)
• Experience in requirements gathering, designing test plans, defect management, project tracking, reporting, and End of Test report creation
• Integration of testing controls into CI/CD pipeline and within release management processes
• Experience with test runners reporting and linking into Continuous Integration (CI) servers such as Jenkins, Travis or CircleCI
• Experience testing cloud-based software with domain-driven designs utilizing Docker and Kubernetes

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree
• Knowledge of Linux, SSH, and shell scripting
• Experience with Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure
• Certification with TMAP and/or ISTQB

What You'll Need to Succeed

• Self-motivation, strong ambition, and interest in directly impacting business results.
• Resourcefulness, multi-tasking skills and creative problem-solving skills.
• Curiosity and a strong passion for data, trend analysis and storytelling through data.
• Resiliency and ability to overcome challenges, sound business judgment.
• Passion for relationship building and building trusted partnerships.

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What We Offer We know you bring your whole self to work every day. That is why we are committed to providing modernized benefits and cultural perks to our teammates. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive and affordable benefits, flex time off to rest and charge, where applicable, a hybrid work model, mental & emotional wellness resources and coaching, 401K and more.

About PatientPoint PatientPoint ® is the patient engagement platform for every point of care. Our innovative, tech-enabled solutions create more effective doctor-patient interactions and deliver high value for patients, providers and healthcare sponsors. Through our nearly 140k unique healthcare provider relationships, PatientPoint's solutions impact roughly 750 million patient visits each year, further advancing our mission of making every doctor-patient engagement better ® . Learn more at patientpoint.com.

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