Senior QA Engineer
Job Location:
El Segundo, CA - USA
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Job Summary
About Circadia Health
Circadia Health is a growth-stage healthcare AI company on a mission to prevent avoidable hospitalizations and transform senior-care operations. Our Circadia Intelligence Platform combines:
Contactless sensing that monitors respiration and motion with medical-grade accuracy
Native predictive models that detect 85% of preventable adverse events several days in advance
Enterprise integrations that operationalize predictions directly inside EHR care-coordination billing and compliance workflows
Today our technology touches 40000 post-acute patients daily across skilled-nursing home-health and home-care networks. We are backed by leading healthcare and AI investors and headquartered in El Segundo CA.
- Test strategy and planning. Author test plans for new features releases and customer deployments defining scope risk-based prioritization entry/exit criteria environments and data requirements so that tested means the same thing to Engineering Clinical and Quality.
- Rigorous exhaustive test case design. Build test suites that cover the platforms full behavior surface: boundary conditions failure-mode handling degraded-network behavior from facilities we dont control malformed HL7 v2 and FHIR payloads timezone and identity edge cases across EHR integrations (PointClickCare Homecare Homebase WellSky) and the alert-delivery paths where reliability matters most.
- Compliance-grade test reporting. Write comprehensive detailed test reports and verification & validation documentation suitable for our Design History File regulatory submissions (510(k)) and ISO 13485 / FDA QMSR audits including requirements-to-test traceability matrices defect trending and evidence packages in partnership with our Design Quality team.
- Automation and scripting. Build and maintain automated regression API and UI test suites in Python (PyTest) against our FastAPI services and React applications integrated into CI/CD so every merge to production runs the full safety net. Script the tooling test data generation environment setup synthetic device telemetry that makes thorough testing fast.
- Regression protection. Own the release-readiness signal: a regression suite the team trusts flaky-test triage and a clear verdict on every release candidate.
- Quality culture. Champion testability across the engineering org reviewing designs for verifiability partnering with engineers on test coverage and reinforcing quality as a property of how we build.
- Release quality: every release candidate ships with a clear evidence-backed readiness verdict.
- Regression suite coverage and reliability: high coverage of critical paths low flake rate trusted by the team as a release gate.
- Audit readiness: test documentation accepted into the DHF and regulatory submissions without rework.
- Release velocity: automation reduces not adds to time from merge to production.
- 5 years in software QA SDET or test engineering roles with ownership of quality for at least one significant production system
- Demonstrated experience authoring formal test plans and designing systematic exhaustive test cases (boundary analysis equivalence partitioning risk-based and negative testing)
- Experience producing detailed test reports and V&V documentation in a medical device healthcare or other highly regulated environment (FDA ISO 13485 IEC 62304 or comparable)
- Strong Python scripting and hands-on automation experience with PyTest or similar frameworks including API testing and UI automation (Playwright Selenium or equivalent)
- Experience testing integrations with third-party systems you do not control
- Strong SQL and comfort validating data across relational databases and warehouses
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) verification IEC 62304 software lifecycle documentation or direct contribution to a 510(k) or CE submission
- Healthcare data and integration testing: HL7 v2 FHIR ADT feeds EHR vendor systems
- HIPAA / SOC 2 environments and sound PHI handling in test data
- Performance load or telemetry-ingestion testing at IoT scale
- Significant open source systems that outlived your tenure or a high-bar engineering background
As a full-time Senior QA Engineer you will be employed by Circadia Health Inc. The anticipated annual base salary range for this full-time position is $110000 - $155000. The base range is determined by role and level and placement within the range will depend on a number of job-related factors including but not limited to your skills qualifications experience and location.
Annual salary is only one part of an employees total compensation package at Circadia Health. We also offer:
- Meaningful employee stock options
- 100% company-paid medical dental and vision coverage
- 401(k)
- Competitive time off with pay policies including vacation sick days and company holidays
- Impact: your work will influence care decisions for tens of thousands of seniors every day.
- Culture: hard-working mission-driven and collaborative with weekly and monthly social events like yoga beach bonfires and Wednesday/Friday team lunches.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Enabling early detection of respiratory failure powered by contactless sensing, clinic software, and artificial intelligence.
