Lead QA Automation Engineer

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🗽 New York – Remote

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HealthCentral

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51 - 200 employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

📱 Media

🤝 Non-profit

💰 $50M Post-IPO Equity on 2008-01

Healthcare Insurance • Media • Non-profit

HealthCentral is a trusted source for medical information with a particular focus on chronic disease conditions. It covers an extensive range of health topics including Alzheimer's disease, asthma, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, mental health, and numerous others. HealthCentral provides resources for living well with information on diet, nutrition, and various health conditions, and offers self-assessment tools and guides. It features contributions from over 2000 expert contributors and medical reviewers to ensure the reliability of its content. The platform aims to educate and empower individuals dealing with chronic conditions, offering tools like drug interaction checkers, quizzes, and self-care guides. It also disseminates information on trending health topics and provides personalized advice through newsletters and expert consultations.

📋 Description

• Own, maintain, and improve automated testing pipelines for media websites and mobile applications. • Build, update, and maintain automated tests using Playwright or similar frameworks. • Improve test reliability, reduce flaky tests, and optimize test execution time. • Maintain and improve CI test workflows using GitHub Actions. • Expand automated coverage for critical user flows and high-risk product functionality. • Establish standards for automated tests writing, reviewing, and organization. • Collaborate with Engineering for testable applications. • Investigate failed test runs and coordinate fixes with Engineering. • Define and improve QA processes across web and mobile products. • Collaborate with Engineering leads on release quality standards and defect triage. • Create practical QA guidelines for feature validation and release readiness. • Manage, support, and mentor the existing manual QA tester.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional QA experience, including hands-on experience testing web applications. • 3+ years of experience building and maintaining automated test suites for production applications. • 2+ years of experience with modern browser automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium. • Playwright experience is strongly preferred. • 1+ year of experience leading QA work, mentoring QA testers, managing QA execution, or owning QA process across a product or engineering team. • Experience writing or maintaining automated tests in JavaScript or TypeScript. • Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions. • Experience with test case management tools such as Testiny, TestRail, Zephyr, or similar. • Experience with cross-browser and cross-device testing tools such as Sauce Labs, BrowserStack, or similar. • Strong understanding of regression testing, smoke testing, exploratory testing, release validation, and defect lifecycle management. • Ability to troubleshoot failed automated tests and distinguish between test issues, environment issues, and application defects. • Experience collaborating directly with Engineering, Product, and Design teams. • Strong communication skills, including the ability to clearly explain QA risks, test coverage gaps, and release concerns. • Ability to operate independently and bring structure to a QA function that is still growing.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Flexible remote working culture • Comprehensive medical/dental/vision benefits • 401K • 21 days PTO • 6 Wellness Days • 2 Volunteer Days • 2 Floating Holidays • Extensive holiday schedule • Summer Fridays