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Senior Software QA Test Engineer

About IQVIA Patient Finder

We live in a world where most information is readily available at our fingertips. You might be surprised to learn that the situation in hospitals is rather different. Systems used for electronic healthcare records (EHR) facilitate the clinical workflow, retrieving and storing information for each patient. There is, however, a large need for secondary usage of this data. Think of linking patients to clinical trials, medical research studies, and care quality assessment. For this purpose IQVIA has developed a search engine that enables medical professionals to find patient cohorts and collect data. In all that we do, we have the doctors and patients at the fore of our mind, and we also ensure to strictly adhere to privacy regulations. Patient Finder is currently used on a daily basis by 40+ hospitals in The Netherlands and Belgium and is expanding into other international markets.

The product is a scale-up within a larger corporation, meaning there is room to make your own mark and propose and work out creative solutions. The direction and view are largely determined, there is a clear vision on what we are as a company. Initial versions of the product have passed and now there is an established market for our product.

The role

We are seeking a skilled Senior QA Test Engineer who is passionate about delivering high quality software in an agile setting, to join our Patient Finder software development team due to expansion of the QA function.

You are a hands-on, self-directed individual who can identify problems, recommend and define solutions, develop and execute appropriate test procedures, and bring an independent viewpoint.

You will have the ability to influence and mentor junior members of the organization and will take initiatives to bring improvements to the software testing process, promoting the adoption of test automation practices as part of the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Create test strategies and plans to enable thorough test coverage of systems.
• Proactively drive the development of effective test processes to validate regularly executed processes such as ETL of data pipelines and Machine Learning execution.
• Build repeatable test scenarios for regression testing with high coverage.
• Ensuring that test evidence is appropriately recorded to validate tests executed, owning reporting-up and release sign off.
• Thoroughly and accurately follow manual test procedures as necessary, accurately recording test evidence.
• Log and track defects raised during testing and proactively ensure satisfactory resolution through collaboration with development teams.
• Where appropriate develop automated tools and utilities to improve speed of repeated test tasks as the customer base scales up.
• Collaborating with product test team members on approaches to improve their automation efforts
• Collaborate with DevOps to improve distributed test execution orchestration in GitLab pipelines to decrease testing duration
• Reviewing test execution metrics and recommending areas of focus
• Collaborate with Software and AI Engineers to create suitable test data.
• Provide leadership for other test resources as the project grows.
• Oversee deployments and management of the test environment.

Skills & Experience

• Minimum 6+ years of experience working as a mid-level or senior QA Test engineer
• 2+ years as lead or senior QA tester
• Experience testing across UI, API and Database layers and APIs
• Demonstrable experience with Continuous Integration (CI) environment and a variety of testing tools, including automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, PyTest.
• Experience in testing Data Warehouses and ETL.
• Hands on experience with RDBMS (Microsoft SQL or PostgreSQL preferred)
• Exposure to both Windows and Linux environments
• Strong understanding of general software development approaches and principles
• Test experience with both functional and non-functional requirements
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• You are based in Europe (no visa sponsorship available currently)

Preferred

• You are based in the Netherlands, so that you can occasionally visit our office and join in-person team and company activities
• Exposure to healthcare \ life sciences \ clinical trials \ pharmaceutical data is highly preferred
• Experience with HL7 FHIR based data exchange would be beneficial

About us

• The Patient Finder team consists of approximately 30 people organised across three development squads (App, Data, AI/ML), QA, Deployment, Support and Consultancy.
• Patient Finder team is part of a larger healthcare product portfolio across the EMEA region, within the IQVIA business.
• Our team largely works from home but employees are free to choose between office, home, or hybrid work locations. We organise at least one team day in the office every month (to socialise with our colleagues), and some squads attend weekly.
• Our team is location mostly in Amsterdam with some colleagues in Madrid.

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com