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Quality Engineer IV- Performance Testing focus

AVAILITY
parental leave, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, 401(k)
United States
Jan 22, 2025

Availity delivers revenue cycle and related business solutions for health care professionals who want to build healthy, thriving organizations. Availity has the powerful tools, actionable insights and expansive network reach that medical businesses need to get an edge in an industry constantly redefined by change.

Availity is a Healthcare IT company headquartered in Jacksonville, FL with an office in Indianapolis, IN and a significant US based remote workforce. Availity is the nation's largest health information network, connecting 2 million providers nationwide and processing more than 12 billion transactions a year, and growing! We work collaboratively with health plans and providers to disrupt an antiquated healthcare system by solving core issues in the way stakeholders communicate. Fixing the broken provider data management process and creating real time communication of risk and quality information are just two of the ways Availity is streamlining this process. Availity also offers providers, hospitals, and health systems revenue cycle and patient financial management solutions. We help prepare our providers for the rise in consumerism and value-based care, so that they can get paid accurately, and timely, for their services.

Our mission is to create connections and deliver products that help healthcare businesses succeed. We do this by connecting, delighting, and empowering the nation's premier healthcare ecosystem; providing multi-stakeholder solutions that simplify the business relationship between providers and health plans.

Job Summary:

As a Quality Engineer IV, you're responsible for continuously improving the quality of the company's product line by preventing, quickly detecting, and validating product and process defects, to deliver market and customer driven business results. You will participate in the core development process as both a consumer and a supplier of artifacts to ensure the delivery of quality software applications. You will evaluate the test results, prepare change requests and generate measures to assess the product quality. Measurement will include code and requirement coverage, cost/coverage tradeoffs, and defect management to quantify the progress and identify risks with the associated test execution statistics. In this role you will work with an integrated team of developers, product managers, product owners, and system analysts for test planning, test driven development, and product validation (white and black box testing, regression validation, and user acceptance story tests).

Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position.

Location: Remote, US

Why you want to work on this team:

  • You will work on highly collaborative team with a mix of personalities - all friendly and respectful
  • This is a consultative type of position that interacts with many of the other scrum teams within the company, so you get a "bigger picture" understanding of the company

Role qualifications:

  • Must have experience working in an agile development environment.
  • Must have 10+ years of experience in a high-tech environment in QA or a role with similar technical requirements.
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline or 3 years of relevant experience would be considered in lieu of a degree.
  • You have a strong background in Performance Testing and Application Performance Management tool like NewRelic, Splunk, or similar
  • You have a strong background in Test Automation
  • You have experience with JMeter and Load Runner
  • You have experience with automation tools like selenium and cumber or something similar
  • You have experience coding or scripting in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, etc
  • Have experience with CI tools like Jenkins or similar

What you will be doing:

  • Knowledge of Performance Testing methodology and its applied uses in testing responsiveness, load, stress, soak, scalability, reliability, and degraded mode of operation.
  • Knowledge of underlying technologies supporting the application under test including REST API's, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, SQL, SFTP, microservice and cloud architecture.
  • Knowledge and ability to maintain and enhance Behavior-Driven test automation framework utilizing JavaScript, Cucumber-js and Selenium.
  • Ability to extend performance test tool capabilities using JavaScript and/or Java.
  • Ability to design flexible automated functional and performance test scripts that can be applied to various test conditions including event synchronization, cross-browser compatibility, multi-environment support, parallel execution, and unexpected fault handling.
  • Knowledge of agile test pyramid concepts, and their appropriate application to the scope of automated unit, service-Layer, and UI, along with manual exploratory and user acceptance testing.
  • Ability to administer performance test software (NeoLoad or similar) consisting of web server, controller, IDE, and distributed load generator components.
  • Ability to administer Selenium Grid test lab (Selenium Box, SauceLabs, or similar) and integrate solution with automated deployment pipelines.
  • Ability to administer test management software (TestRail or similar) and integrate solution with agile work planning tools.
  • Working knowledge of agile work planning tool (JIRA or similar).
  • Working experience using source-control change management software (GIT or similar).
  • Working knowledge of integrating Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins or similar) with supported test automation components.
  • Ability to use Application Performance Management tools (NewRelic, Splunk, or similar) to monitor key health metrics, identify system resource bottlenecks, and investigate system errors.
  • Ability to estimate test schedules and assess risk.
  • Ability to adapt to supporting autonomous teams and influence application of testing standards when ownership of software quality is a shared responsibility with the development teams.
  • Knowledge, skills, and experience to develop performance test plans based on technical documentation, specifically business requirements and functional specifications.
  • Knowledge of web development methodologies (primarily Agile/Scrum), application design, navigation, and information architecture.
  • Knowledge of basic database design and query language.

Availity culture and benefits:

  • Availity is a certified "Great Place to Work"! Culture is important to us and there are many ways for you to make your mark here!
  • We have several Diversity & Inclusion teams, a Young Professionals Group, a She Can Code IT group for women in tech, and various ways to engage with fellow Availity associates.
  • Availity is a culture of continuous learning. We have many resources and experts in our tech stack and in our industry that can help get you there too!
  • Don't feel like wearing business attire? Cool, you can wear jeans - we are a casual place.
  • We offer a competitive salary, bonus structure, generous HSA company contribution, healthcare, vision, dental benefits and a 401k match program that you can take advantage of on day one!
  • We offer unlimited PTO for salaried associates + 9 paid holidays. Hourly associates start at 19 days of PTO and go up from there with all the same holiday benefits.
  • Interested in wellness? We allow our associates to reimburse up to $300/year for gym memberships, participation in racing events, weight management programs, etc.
  • Interested in furthering your education? We offer education reimbursement!
  • Availity offers Paid Parental Leave for both moms and dads, both birth parents and adoptive parents.
  • Want to work for an organization that gives back to the community? You're at the right place! Availity partners with various organizations, both locally and nationally, to raise awareness, funds and morale as our staff members volunteer their time and funds to engage the organizations campaign.

Availity perks for remote, hybrid and office-based associates:

  • We offer a flexible working environment! Whether you are a fully remote associate or one that enjoys a hybrid or fully onsite approach we are flexible to help ensure you have a working environment to thrive in!
  • All associates have the opportunity to have 1on1 sessions with their supervisor or manager to help facilitate transparency and growth within the organization
  • Availity holiday parties/events are available to ALL associates no matter if you are fully remote or have a hybrid or onsite schedule
  • You like food trucks? We have them almost daily at our office (when we're back to normal)
  • Like food trucks a little too much? We also have an onsite gym with showers
  • We appreciate work/life balance! Need to get a quick break in between meetings? We have Ping Pong, Foosball, Arcade games, and XBox to help you decompress - and we have a massage therapist onsite once a week for a little relaxation too
  • We've got you covered with free coffee, lemonade and tea anytime you want

Next steps:

After you apply, you will receive text/email messages thanking you for applying and then you will continue to receive more text/email messages alerting you as to where you are in the recruitment process.

Interview process:

  • Manager resume review
  • Manager video interview
  • Team video interview

Availity is an equal opportunity employer and makes decisions in employment matters without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Availity is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

NOTICE: Federal law requires all employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States. When required by state law or federal regulation, Availity uses I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification in conjunction with E-Verify to determine employment eligibility. Learn more about E-Verify at http://www.dhs.gov/e-verify.

Click the links below to view Federal Employment Notices.

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