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Quality Assurance Automation Lead

Faro Health aims to improve lives by helping life sciences companies design optimal clinical trials. Our AI powered software platform optimizes and orchestrates complex clinical development by providing powerful insights about trial design and outcomes. Faro empowers researchers to design more intelligent trials, reducing development costs and reaching milestones faster with better patient experiences.

Faro is a mission driven company seeking world class people who share our passion for improving drug availability and patient outcomes through better clinical trial design. We pride ourselves on our vibrant, inclusive, and growth mindset oriented culture. Faro offers competitive compensation and benefits, generous vacation and parental leave, and flexible working hours.

We are a hybrid workplace where San Diego employees work from their homes as well as in our stunning main headquarters enjoying a gym with classes and (early next year) spa services, outdoor lawn work area, and steeply discounted food hall. Remote employees work from home and visit the main office for group events and in-person collaboration.

As the Quality Assurance Automation Lead, you’ll be instrumental in driving our software quality assurance lifecycle, collaborating with development, manual QA and DevOps teams to establish test strategies, and developing automated tests to ensure our releases meet the highest standards.

If you’re passionate about quality, automation, and continuous improvement, join us in shaping the future of clinical trial development.

Open to candidates residing in California, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia or North Carolina.

Responsibilities:

Lead the design and development of automation testing tools, frameworks and processes for ensuring user experience and data quality across all product lines
Work closely with multiple teams to identify areas that can benefit from automation and design software solutions accordingly
Drive the software quality assurance life cycle within an Agile process
Mentor and coach team members on best practices for automation development
Conduct code reviews and ensure compliance with coding standards and practices
Stay up to date on industry trends, best practices and standards in automation and software development

Qualifications

BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field
Proficiency with Typescript and NodeJS, and Python
Proficiency with automation frameworks (WebdriverIO, Playwright, Selenium or similar)
Updatestanding of CI/CD and continuous automation pipelines
Familiarity with version control, defect tracking, and test management tools (GIT, JIRA, Qase)
Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases
Familiarity with load/stress testing frameworks and methodologies

Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
Bonus: data analysis skills

Skills and Competencies

Strong communication and presentation skills
Strong organizational, motivational, and leadership skills
Strong attention to details and ability to triage and aid in resolution of escalations
Team player with ability to work independently; ability to adjust to changing priorities
Strong emotional intelligence, interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
Strong business planning and problem solving skills
Goal-oriented
Ability to project and maintain a professional and positive attitude

Salary

Salary range for this position is $111,000 to $141,000
Salary listed reflects the base salary only and does not include other elements of total compensation
Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training

Equity

In addition to this position's salary (listed above), equity will be a major component of the total compensation for this position. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.

Benefits