Job Description
Mission + People + Culture: With a corporate Mission to stop disease through technology, InductiveHealth is the market leader in software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to public health agencies. Our People come from all backgrounds and walks of life ranging from world class experts in epidemiology, informatics, and disease surveillance to engineers and product teams building high performance, modern solutions. Mission + People are unified around a virtual first Culture centered around teamwork, relentless focus on client outcomes, and individual accountability.
Why work at InductiveHealth?
1. Motivation: We value initiative-takers and self-starters who want to contribute to the success of our Team and client outcomes.
2. Curiosity: Seeking to understand and comprehend is critical - we expect and encourage questions to master job duties and grow professionally.
3. Organization: We are a Team. This means we hold each other accountable and have high expectations for performance and outcomes.
4. Feedback: “Open and honest” is part of our corporate values that builds a culture of professional growth to support client success.
5. Impact: Your individual contributions will stop the spread of disease and improve individual, community, and population health outcomes.
We are seeking a Junior QA Automation Engineerto help grow our test automation capabilities with an initial focus on web application automation. This role is ideal for someone with a passion for web application quality and modern test automation. In this role, you will help design and maintain automated test suites for InductiveHealth’s web-based products (such as WebIZ and related public health applications). You will collaborate closely with QA engineers and developers to identify high value test scenarios, automate critical user workflows, and improve speed, repeatability of testing across a complex web-based product suite. ensure our software is reliable, secure, and 508 Compliant. The ideal candidate brings hands on experience with UI test automation using tools like Selenium or Playwright), is comfortable with Python and TypeScript, and is motivated to simplify testing in a complex application environment. This fully remote role offers the opportunity to build practical automation skills while contributing to software that supports public health programs.
What you’ll be doing in this role:
Develop Automated Test Scripts: Create, run and maintain automated tests for critical web application workflows using tools like Selenium WebDriver and Playwright frameworks. Create robust scripts to validate UI functionality, workflows, and data integrity across InductiveHealth’s product suite.
Ensure Software Quality: Work alongside QA and development teams to understand application behavior, implement comprehensive test plans covering functional, regression, and end-to-end scenarios. Continuously improve test coverage to maintain high reliability of our applications through regular releases.
Leverage AI & Modern Tools Effectively:Utilize AI-assisted development and testing tools to improve productivity in test design, scripting, debugging, and maintenance. Work with generative AI assistants (e.g., code-completion, test case generation tools) to accelerate script development and maintenance. Maintain self-healing test frameworks and AI-based analytics to reduce flaky tests and improve defect detection.
Execute and Monitor Automated Testing: Monitor automated test runs, analyze failures, document findings, and ensure timely resolution of any breaking changes.
Document Test Assets and Results: Document test steps, results, and defects clearly. Maintain testing artifacts (test plans, cases, scripts) in our repository. Provide concise reports on testing progress, coverage, gaps, quality risks, and related quality metrics to the team.
Learn the Product and Domain: Build understanding of public health domain and InductiveHealth’s applications (like disease surveillance workflows, data privacy requirements). Ensure testing approaches account for relevant regulatory, security and accessibility standards (e.g., data confidentiality, HIPAA compliance, 508 Compliance).
What are we looking for?
Experience: 1–3 years of experience in software testing including QA automation. A solid understanding of QA methodologies, test case design, and bug life cycle is essential.
Technical Skills: Hands-on experience writing automation scripts for web applications. Proficiency with Selenium WebDriver (or similar UI automation tools) required; familiarity with Playwright is a plus. Competency in at least one programming/scripting language commonly used for test automation (Python or TypeScript preferred).
AI Exposure:Exposure to AI/ML tools in testing (for example, using GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or other AI-driven test generation or analysis tools) is highly valued. The ideal candidate is open to learning and incorporating AI to improve testing efficiency.
Tooling & Dev Practices: Experience with version control (Git). Familiarity with test management and bug tracking software (e.g., JIRA, Azure DevOps) in an Agile environment.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field. Equivalent practical experience or relevant certifications will also be considered.
What will make you stand out?
Additional Automation Skills: Experience with API testing (using tools like Postman or REST Assured) or performance testing (JMeter, etc.) is a plus.
Domain Knowledge: Prior exposure to healthcare or public sector software (e.g., electronic health records, health data standards like HL7, or immunization systems) is beneficial but not required.
DevOps & Cloud: Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS/Azure) or containerization (Docker) as related to test environments.
Soft Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail. Excellent communication and teamwork abilities to collaborate in a remote team. Work effectively in a complex and evolving application environment. A proactive attitude to learning new tools and improving processes continuously.
$65,000 - $80,000 a year
Benefits and Perks: InductiveHealth offers competitive benefits and perks including:
· Virtual first, remote organization and culture
· Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
· 401(k) retirement plan with corporate matching
· Medical, prescription, vision, and dental coverage (multiple plans based on your needs)
· Short Term and Long Term Disability (for employee)
· Life Insurance (for employee)
· New Team Member support for home office setup
About InductiveHealth: InductiveHealth (www.inductivehealth.com) was co-founded by Matthew Dollacker and Stephen Macauley in 2013. Today, InductiveHealth is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and has over 80 team members across the United States supporting state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) public health agencies in addition to Federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In early 2021, InductiveHealth became the exclusive commercial partner of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) for the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) syndromic surveillance solution. To accelerate growth in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, InductiveHealth become a portfolio company of Diversis Capital (https://www.diversis.com/) in early 2022.
All responses to applications will come from [email protected] or from the domain @inductivehealth.com.
InductiveHealth is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, or disability.
