Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer

Company Description

About us

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.


As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.


Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

The PA Health Data Platforms team is looking for an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer to play a core part of the software development, maintenance and delivery process. By applying ingenuity to the building of data platforms for the clinical and biopharmaceutical community, PA aspires to change the course of care across the medical spectrum.

The team develops and maintains complex cloud-based systems to store and deliver sensitive clinical data to physicians, regulators, and scientists. We are looking for a passionate Quality Assurance Engineer to join our dynamic team and ensure the highest quality standards for our products.

Qualifications

7-10 years of Industry working experience as a QA Engineer

• Programming & Test Automation

• Proficiency in programming for test automation, utilizing languages such as Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript.

• Hands-on experience with test automation tools and frameworks, including Playwright or similar.

• Familiarity with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) using frameworks such as Cucumber.

• Experience in implementing both API and UI testing to validate end-to-end web app interactions.

• Ability to effectively balance manual and automated testing efforts.

• Quality Assurance & Test Management

• Solid understanding of test planning, design, overall management of the QA lifecycle.

• Practical experience with functional, regression, exploratory, and manual testing methodologies.

• Skilled in defining and executing test strategies within agile frameworks to ensure comprehensive validation of new features.

• Continuous Integration & Delivery (CI/CD), DevOps & Environment Provisioning

• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.

• Proficiency in version control and environment provisioning to ensure scalable test environments.

• Knowledge of SQL for querying and managing databases in test environments.

• Experience with Shell/Bash scripting to automate and streamline test workflows.

• Ability to contribute to DevOps practices, enhancing the efficiency, reliability and scalability of test automation workflows.

• Cross-Team Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Strong collaboration skills with developers, product owners, and cross-functional teams.

• Effective communication skills to advocate for QA best practices.

• Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.

We know the skill-gap and 'somewhat need to tick every box' can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don't hesitate to apply - we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

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Additional Information

The salary range for this role is between $118,000 - $180,000k

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples' working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We are currently operating a discretionary hybrid working model which is designed to help you plan your work and your life. We want our people to come into the office at least two days a week.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world's most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

Benefits

• Group medical insurance
• Health Savings Account with company match
• Teladoc and informed Nurse line resources
• Long term care plan
• Group dental insurance

• Vision plan
• 401(k) Savings Plan with company profit sharing contribution
• Commuter and Parking tax-savings benefit
• 15 days paid vacation days with the opportunity to buy five additional days
• 10 paid Holidays plus 10 paid sick days

• Company and Voluntary income protection benefits
• Gym and health incentive reimbursement
• Pet and legal insurance Plans
• Employee Assistance Plan
• Annual performance-based bonus

We're committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

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