Vida Health · 3 weeks ago
Lead QA Automation Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$160K/yr - $175K/yr
5+ years expVida Health is a virtual, personalized obesity care provider that uses evidence-based treatment to help patients manage obesity and related conditions. The Lead QA Automation Engineer will focus on building frameworks and tools that ensure high-quality software delivery, mentoring QA engineers, and collaborating with various teams to maintain a stable and reliable staging environment.
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Responsibilities
Define requirements for and collaborate with DevOps/SRE to build and maintain a fully production-like staging environment that enables end-to-end, integration, regression and performance testing
Ensure staging includes all required systems including core APIs, backend services, microservices, cron jobs, queues, authentication and mobile/web builds and remains stable, predictable and reflective of production
Implement and maintain synthetic and/or de-identified data models across core member/provider/employer scenarios
Own automation around data seeding, refresh and reset workflows
Integrate automated test suites into staging deployments and ensure staging functions as the primary quality gate before releases
Architect, develop and optimize scalable, maintainable automation frameworks across web, mobile and API platforms
Define standards for test structure, code quality, reliability and maintainability within QA automation systems
Enable product engineers and QA contributors to build tests on these frameworks through clear patterns, documentation and reusable components
Ensure automation is deeply aligned with staging as the definitive test environment
Build core automated tests for foundational flows and critical infrastructure
Develop reusable test utilities, data factories and shared tooling
Partner with product teams to expand test coverage and integrate automation into their workflows
Diagnose failures, triage issues in frameworks or environments and reduce flakiness
Define Vida’s quality strategy with an emphasis on shift-left practices, early defect detection and automated quality gates
Own and evolve the release quality process, including quality gates, staging validation workflows and release-readiness criteria—while enabling product teams to execute the process independently
Track and improve key quality metrics (automation coverage, defect leakage, cycle time, reliability)
Serve as a key stakeholder in release readiness reviews
Mentor QA engineers and product engineers in writing reliable automated tests, designing scenarios and contributing to shared frameworks
Conduct code reviews and drive best practices that promote quality ownership across engineering
Collaborate on prioritization and capacity planning for quality initiatives and automation roadmap
Partner with engineering leads, product managers, DevOps/SRE and clinical operations to ensure core user journeys and clinical workflows are validated in staging
Collaborate with product teams to integrate automation into feature development and define quality gates
Support UAT and customer-facing demo environments by ensuring staging reliability and test data availability
Qualification
Required
Bachelors Degree at a minimum
5-8+ years of QA engineering experience with 2+ years in senior/lead automation roles
Strong proficiency in automation tools and languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Python or Java
Experience with web, mobile and API testing frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Detox, etc.)
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins)
Experience creating and maintaining non-prod environments used for automation or integration testing
Solid knowledge of QA methodologies, test design, debugging best practices and automation principles
Preferred
Experience operating in healthcare, regulated environments (HIPAA) or high-stakes compliance-driven industries
Experience building or managing staging/pre-production environments
Familiarity with AWS/GCP infrastructure, containers, microservices and Terraform or equivalent IaC
Experience with performance testing (k6, JMeter) and observability tools (Datadog, Sentry, Grafana)
Experience with complex, multi-tenant data seeding strategies or synthetic data generation
Company
Vida Health
Vida Health is a virtual care platform that provides health coaching from experienced health care providers and medical institutions.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$216.5MKey Investors
Ally Bridge GroupCanvas Prime
2023-11-09Series Unknown· $28.5M
2021-05-05Series D· $110M
2020-04-30Series Unknown· $25M
Leadership Team
Joe Murad
Chief Executive Officer
Jason Macaleer
Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)
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