Senior QA Engineer

If you are interested, please attach your CV in English. Also, please note that we offer a full-time freelancing consulting agreement.

A Little Bit about Us

VarSome.com is the world’s leading website for professional human genetics. With more than 5 000 citations in scientific papers, 60 000 registered professional users, we are seeking to bring together all the human expertise in molecular genetics. VarSome Clinical is a comprehensive decision support software platform for genetic testing.

VarSome is created by Saphetor, a Switzerland-based precision medicine company with offices in Lausanne, Boston, and Athens, using bioinformatics to apply human genome data to improve health and lives worldwide.

Saphetor is pioneering the use of big-data sequencing technology, such as exome and whole-genome sequencing, for clinical practice. We are involved in both clinical research and diagnostics, providing our clients with quality analysis and interpretation of next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) data. All our services are provided over the web, and our VarSome.com website is the world’s prime reference for genetic variant interpretation.

Role Responsibilities

• Conduct automation and manual testing, while documenting test methodologies.
• Gain in-depth knowledge of our clinical platform, which enables fast and accurate variant detection, annotation, and interpretation of NGS data for whole genomes, exomes, and gene panels to give the highest quality to our customers.
• Participate in the full product development life-cycle: defining test requirements at the start of a project, tracking and managing test issues, ensuring that the software meets its acceptance criteria, signing off on releases for quality purposes and reviewing test documentation.
• Continue to develop our automation suite and embed this within our development process.
• Write concise documentation and revise older test cases to achieve greater testing coverage.
• Develop new testing frameworks where necessary
• Mentor junior QA engineers and promote best testing practices across the team.

What you will bring:

• BSc and/or MSc Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other STEM degrees. A BSc and/or MSc Degree in Bioinformatics would be a plus.
• At least 4 + years of experience in Quality Assurance, focusing on test automation, including designing, implementing, and maintaining test frameworks and test cases.
• Familiarity with test management/documentation tools (e.g., TestRail, QC).
• Working knowledge of API testing tools (e.g., Postman, SoapUI).
• Hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver and test frameworks such as Pytest.
• Programming experience with Python.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently as well as in a team.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken).
• Be a flexible team player and have the ability to manage a project.
• Highly motivated and detail-oriented individual.

Your career journey with us includes:

• A position in a fascinating healthcare growth domain, at the cutting edge of technology.
• A competitive compensation package.
• Remote work with occasional meetings. Everyone in the company speaks fluent English and the company is very experienced in coordinating a regionally distributed team, using an agile workflow.
• Endless learning opportunities while transferring new technologies from academics to clinical practice all over the world.

Saphetor is proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and our employees, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, medical condition or disability, sexual orientation, gender expression, or marital status.

Originally posted on Himalayas