Quality Engineer IV

Availity delivers revenue cycle and related business solutions for health care professionals who want to build healthy, thriving organizations. Availity has the powerful tools, actionable insights and expansive network reach that medical businesses need to get an edge in an industry constantly redefined by change.

At Availity, we're not just another Healthcare Technology company; we're pioneers reshaping the future of healthcare! With our headquarters in vibrant Jacksonville, FL, and an exciting office in Bangalore, India, along with an exceptional remote workforce across the United States, we're a global team united by a powerful mission.

We're on a mission to bring the focus back to what truly matters – patient care. As the leading healthcare engagement platform, we're the heartbeat of an industry that impacts millions. With over 2 million providers connected to health plans, and processing over 13 billion transactions annually, our influence is continually expanding.

Join our energetic, dynamic, and forward-thinking team where your ideas are celebrated, innovation is encouraged, and every contribution counts. We're transforming the healthcare landscape, solving communication challenges, and creating connections that empower the nation's premier healthcare ecosystem.

The Quality Engineer IV is responsible for driving quality strategy and technical direction across teams and systems. This role drives enterprise-level quality initiatives, influences architecture decisions, and ensures scalable, maintainable, and high-performing testing practices across the organization. The QE IV partners with engineering, product, architecture and other Quality thought leaders to proactively identify risk, define test strategy, and ensure quality is built into the development lifecycle. This role is expected to operate independently, mentor across teams, and elevate the effectiveness of the broader Quality organization.

Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position.

Location: Remote, US – Eastern/Central Time zone Preferred

Why work on this team?

• You want to work on a high-transactional platform that directly impacts patient experience, where quality and reliability truly matter.

• You are excited to be part of a team that continually improves processes and enhances platform capabilities

• You approach testing pragmatically — driving complete coverage, elevating risk when needed, incorporating stakeholder input, and owning outcomes.

• You are a quality evangelist who is passionate about delivering high-performing, functional software to the healthcare industry.

What you will be doing:

• Assigned to a Scrum team, leads the definition and execution of test strategy to ensure comprehensive coverage aligned with product and architectural goals.

• Drives quality outcomes within the Scrum team by identifying risks early, influencing design decisions, and ensuring testability and scalability of solutions.

• Leads automation strategy within the team, including framework design, maintainability, and integration into CI/CD pipelines.

• Identifies and mitigates systemic quality risks that extend beyond the immediate team, collaborating across teams when necessary.

• Mentors and guides engineers within and outside the Scrum team on automation practices, test strategy, innovative approaches to AI and quality engineering standards.

• Contributes to and promotes best practices for testing, automation, and quality engineering across teams and the broader organization.

• Participates in and contributes to cross-team initiatives and discussions that impact quality strategy, tooling, and engineering practices.

What are the qualifications, skills, & experience of an ideal candidate?

• Experience in an Agile/Scrum environment; we operate in 2-week sprints

• 8+ years of experience in software quality engineering, including leading testing efforts in complex, high-scale environments with an automation-first approach

• 6+ years of hands-on experience designing and evolving automation frameworks for UI, API, and integration testing, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and long-term sustainability

• Deep expertise in automation development using modern languages such as JavaScript, Python, or C#, with the ability to guide others in writing performant, maintainable, and reusable automation code

• Strong experience leveraging development tools and IDE ecosystems (VS Code, Eclipse, or similar), including extensions and integrations, to accelerate automation development, debugging, and analysis workflows

• Expert-level experience integrating high val