Background

Before new medical treatments can be administered to the public, they must demonstrate safety and efficacy in a clinical trial. These trials protect consumers from ineffective and dangerous products, but the clinical trial process also presents a tremendous bottleneck in delivering life-saving treatments to patients. A typical trial involves coordinating between numerous parties and data formats to gather, store, analyse, and audit clinical data. Mistakes and delays are common, and fewer than 10% of trials finish on time.

At TrialSpark, we are looking for talented software engineers to help us reimagine the clinical trial process from first principles and build the technology platform for the trial of the future.

Description

This role will work closely with our Product, Engineering, and Quality and Compliance teams. You will be creating test plans and writing automated tests to ensure software quality for our end users. Your work will also be used to document processes and workflows for compliance and computer system validation purposes. In addition, you should be comfortable working in an agile and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain our automated testing platform. Create and maintain tests, test plans, and documentation.
• Develop tools for the engineering team to ease the creation and maintenance of our automation platform.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to coordinate test creation and maintenance. Stay ahead of the curve by keeping up with product requirements as they evolve.
• Work with the Quality Assurance team to ensure tests and documentation created is regulatory ready.
• Write code to automate the generation of documentation for compliance purposes.
• Create and maintain automated test suites to reduce deployment risks.
• Become a domain expert in our compliance needs as it relates to our software systems and look for opportunities to automate any aspect of our compliance program.
• Keep a strong bias towards automation and away from manual intervention and oversight.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years of software testing/automation experience.
• Fluency in a programming language (Python, Typescript, or Javascript preferred)
• Experience with browser automation (Selenium), testing frameworks (Cucumber, pytest, jest), BDD (we use Radish), and CI/CD (Jenkins, CircleCI).
• Understanding of a variety of testing techniques (manual and automated) and understanding of how to choose a testing approach based on context.
• Exposure to Linux, cloud technologies (AWS), databases (Postgres, Redshift), and command line shell utilities.
• Excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to convey complicated systems to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• B.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

Bonus points

• If you’ve worked with React, GraphQL, or other frontend technologies.
• If you have experience in regulated industries requiring software validation.
• If you really want to change up how healthcare technology works.