Lead AQA Engineer

What's the Project?

Newfire Global Partners is a leading technology firm that specializes in building transformative software solutions for some of the world’s most innovative companies. With a presence across four continents, Newfire Global brings deep expertise in digital healthcare, AI-driven analytics, and enterprise technology. The firm’s track record of delivering scalable, high-impact solutions has made it a trusted partner for organizations seeking to drive meaningful change through technology.

We are passionate about the purpose-driven mission to help improve the quality of care for patients and are building a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture. We are a fully funded company founded by serial entrepreneurs with a stable client base.

Our client is a large US-based company from the healthcare market. We are starting a multi-phase project focusing on replacement of the clinical and data platform, replacing the current system. The work will be concentrated on delivering a flexible and configurable workflow solution. You will work in a mid-size team (20-40 people), predominantly based in Central Europe, with a client in the United States. This will be an exciting, greenfield project in a highly demanding but also rewarding environment of modern healthcare, based on cloud architectures, in data-driven and AI-enhanced environment.You will serve as the Automation Quality Assurance (AQA) Lead, responsible for defining, architecting, and implementing the end-to-end automation strategy. This hands-on leadership role begins at the project's inception, requiring you to build the entire AQA framework from the ground up. You will work closely and iteratively with Front-End, Back-End, UX/UI, and Data Engineering teams throughout the specification, development, and delivery life cycles. The initial phase involves the design and implementation of a robust, scalable, and maintainable automation framework tailored to the application's architecture. As feature development matures, you will integrate and mentor manual Quality Assurance engineers, transitioning the team into a mature, automation-first QA function and ensuring a smooth progression from manual to automated testing coverage.

You’re a perfect match if you have:

• Strong knowledge of testing frameworks and methodologies, including BDD and TDD

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in automated testing

• Minimum of 5 years of experience using TypeScript/JavaScript testing frameworks

• Experience in creating and maintaining automated test suites

• Experience with Playwright

• Ability to understand and create test plans from requirements

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams

• Ability to implement a mature test automation suite without much guidance

• Experience working in Agile environment and ability to perform own work without much guidance

• Proactive and delivery oriented mind set

• As a Senior team member, you will be expected to actively participate in our hiring processes by serving on interview panels for future roles across the company

• Experience in the US healthcare industry

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as React

• Solid experience with relational and non-relational databases

• Familiarity with DevOps tools and practices

• Experience with UM, Prior Auth, drug formularies, member eligibility

Your day-to-day activities:

• Lead AQA efforts on the project 

• Developing and executing automated tests to ensure the quality of the application

• Collaborating closely with the development team to ensure that the application meets business and user needs

• Creating and maintaining test automation frameworks

• Developing and maintaining test plans and test cases

• Participating in code reviews and ensuring that the codebase meets quality and performance standards