QA Senior Engineer

RA Capital Management is a multi-stage investment manager dedicated to evidence-based investing in public and private healthcare, life sciences, and planetary health companies. For more than 20 years, RA Capital creates and funds innovative companies, from private seed rounds to public follow-on financings, allowing management teams to drive value creation from inception through commercialization and beyond. RA Capital's knowledge engine is guided by our TechAtlas internal research division, and RA Ventures (RAven), RA Capital’s healthcare incubator, which offers entrepreneurs and innovators a collaborative and comprehensive platform to explore the novel and the re-imagined. RA Capital has more than 150 employees and over $10 billion in assets under management.

About The Role

As a QA Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for testing proprietary software solutions as well as building and supporting test automation. You will be integrated with a software development team to deliver strategic and tactical enhancements for RA Capital’s proprietary software suite. You'll also collaborate with other technology teams in the organization as necessary.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain test cases and test plans
• Design, implement and maintain Automated Test Suites
• Perform functional, exploratory, user acceptance testing and automated testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and release process
• Provide thought and practice leadership in testing excellence
• Strive to develop and conduct software testing with high standards, thinking about engineering excellence.
• Learn and contribute to development across the entire stack (backend, DB, front end, UI)
• Engage in a highly collaborative team environment including business partners and product owners

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree​ in computer science or a related field
• 5-8+ years of software testing and test development experience
• Strong communication skills
• Well-versed in all testing methodologies (black box, white box, system, functional, exploratory and automated testing)
• Ability to quickly understand complex business problems
• Proven experience building high quality and comprehensive test plans and test cases custom software
• Proven experience testing web applications, web APIs and data driven applications
• Proven experience designing and implementing automated test suites
• Experience with various testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, JUnit)
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g. Python, JavaScript).
• Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in an agile delivery environment
• Strong SQL coding and debugging skills
• Experience with service oriented architectures a plus
• Experience with cloud platform services a plus
• Experience in the financial services and/or Biotech/Pharma industries.
• ​Ability work a hybrid work schedule at our Boston headquarters

 

​RA Capital is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you require an accommodation during the interview process, please reach out to careers@racap.com for assistance.