Associate Research Scientist – Quality Assurance Lead

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🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

💵 $80k - $128.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1997

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

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Arbor Research Collaborative for Health is a nonprofit health services research and technology organization that conducts real-world evidence generation, clinical and policy research, and develops health IT and data platforms to inform healthcare policy, clinical quality, and patient outcomes. It partners with government agencies (including HHS, CMS, NIH), foundations, and private-sector clients to provide data coordinating center services, disease and treatment registries, clinical trial research, mixed-methods evaluation, and health IT modernization using cloud, AI, and modern development practices.

📋 Description

• Coordinate all quality assurance across systems for the OPTN Patient Safety and Compliance task order • Establish issue-resolution processes across teams and organizations • Champion automated testing and test coverage • Lead Quality Assurance analysts designing and executing software tests • Oversee, develop, and execute automation test plans and test cases • Maintain and expand the automation framework and regression test suite • Develop toolsets supporting QA and development testing • Contribute to major research projects and help shape new directions for program areas • Participate in proposals for new research studies and lead proposals for supplementary support, including training grants • Conduct methodological and applied research leading to publications, sponsor reports, and other dissemination • Provide scientific and operational oversight for research projects • Manage tasks and timelines with a Project Manager • Contribute to study protocol development and analytic approaches • Mentor and guide analytic staff • Translate research findings into improvements in health services practice and policy • Lead technical assistance, health policy and delivery model implementation, monitoring, program evaluation, and learning collaborative projects • Provide operational oversight as project director, deputy project director, or task lead • Build and maintain relationships with sponsors, external partners, managers, and staff

🎯 Requirements

• MD, PhD, or master's degree and/or relevant experience in health services research, biostatistics, epidemiology, health economics, health policy, or another social science field • Capability to succeed in research, demonstrated through specific content-area expertise, lead or senior authorship on refereed publications, and/or invited presentations • Demonstrated potential to contribute meaningfully to research projects and secure funding for new projects aligned with Arbor Research’s mission • Strong oral and written communication skills • Ability to travel, including internationally, with several nights away from home per year • Familiarity with modern quality assurance standards and tools • Experience or capability in automated testing, test coverage, automation frameworks, regression testing, and software test planning • Ability to lead Quality Assurance analysts and oversee comprehensive automation test plans and test cases • Ability to contribute to study protocol development and analytic approaches • Ability to provide scientific and operational oversight for research projects

🏖️ Benefits

• Career advancement opportunity to Research Scientist in one to three years • Formal mentorship from a Senior Research Scientist or other senior research staff member • Additional mentorship and collaboration opportunities among methodological and clinical teams • Opportunities to present seminars, talks, and lectures internally for staff advancement and education • Opportunities to present externally on behalf of Arbor Research