Quality Assurance Engineer

Pronunciation: a:rine [uh-reen]. Noun: Arine is a name of Basque origin meaning "light." Arine illuminates the possibilities with medication management to deliver comprehensive economic and health outcomes. 

Based in San Francisco, Arine is a rapidly growing healthcare technology and clinical services company with a mission to ensure individuals receive the safest and most effective treatments for their unique and evolving healthcare needs. 

Frequently, medications cause more harm than good. Incorrect drugs and doses costs the US healthcare system over $528 billion in waste, avoidable harm, and hospitalizations each year. Arine is redefining what excellent healthcare looks like by solving these issues through our software platform (SaaS). We combine cutting edge data science, machine learning, AI, and deep clinical expertise to introduce a patient-centric view to medication management, and develop and deliver personalized care plans on a massive scale for patients and their care teams.

Arine is committed to improving the lives and health of complex patients that have an outsized impact on healthcare costs and have traditionally been difficult to identify and address. These patients face numerous challenges including complicated prescribing issues across multiple medications and providers, medication challenges with many chronic diseases, and patient issues with access to care. Backed by leading healthcare investors and collaborating with top healthcare organizations and providers, we deliver recommendations and facilitate clinical interventions that lead to significant, measurable health improvements for patients and cost savings for customers. 

Why is Arine a Great Place to Work?:

Outstanding Team and Culture - Our shared mission unites and motivates us to do our best work. We have a relentless passion and commitment to the innovation required to be the market leader in medication intelligence.

Making a Proven Difference in Healthcare - We are saving patient lives, and enabling individuals to experience improved health outcomes, including significant reductions in hospitalizations and cost of care.

Market Opportunity - Arine is backed by leading healthcare investors and was founded to tackle one of the largest healthcare problems today. Non-optimized medications therapies which cost the US 275,000 lives and $528 billion annually.

Momentum That Matters - In just over eight years, Arine has grown into one of the fastest-growing healthcare AI companies, serving more than 45 million members through partnerships with leading health plans nationwide. Recognized on the Inc. 5000 list for two consecutive years, we're combining rapid growth with meaningful impact on the quality, cost, and outcomes of care.

The Role:

Arine is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer (Individual Contributor) who will operate as a key technical contributor in quality engineering execution. This role is focused on implementing and maintaining the end-to-end quality strategy across our core application features, user interfaces, and backend services. You will be instrumental in expanding scalable, resilient testing frameworks, supporting "Shift-Left" practices within the development cycle, and providing technical input that improves product reliability and engineering efficiency. You will collaborate directly with Engineering Architects, Product Managers, and the QA Manager to execute our long-term quality vision.

What You’ll be Doing:

• Design and execute comprehensive, risk-based test strategies and test plans for complex features, system releases, and architectural refactoring projects.
• Adopt and apply robust Quality Engineering practices across the organization, adhering to core testing policies, coding standards for test automation, and release readiness criteria.
• Contribute to the design, adoption, and scaling of robust automated test frameworks to achieve high automation coverage and establish repeatable validation.
• Proactively explore AI-driven tooling to modernize our testing workflows and elevate the efficiency of our quality engineering practices.
• Monitor and maintain automated quality gates within the development process to prevent regressions and ensure release confidence.
• Apply coding and scripting skills to develop custom diagnostic tools, execute root cause analysis, and perform system integrity checks.
• Participate in code reviews and collaborate with junior and senior QA engineers, helping to maintain a high technical bar for quality across engineering teams.
• Execute the primary quality sign-off, ensuring system integrity by utilizing sophisticated comparison and validation methods across all data and UI visualization touchpoints.
• Help identify and resolve systemic quality pain points and testing gaps, working with Engineering Leadership and the QA Manager to support structural process and tool improvements.
• Document and track high-priority defects, collaborating across development teams to ensure swift, permanent resolution of complex system issues.

Technical Expertise & System Architecture:

• 3+ years of specialized Quality Engineering experience, with a focus on scalable, distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience in contributing to and maintaining resilient, scalable test automation frameworks at an enterprise level.
• Strong ability to analyze system logs, integrate with observability platforms, and script test data setup and validation against complex application workflows.
• Experience with performance engineering, load testing, and security scanning concepts (not just execution).
• Solid capability in testing modern web application frontends and validating complex backend business logic in microservice architectures.
• Proficiency in debugging and tracing defects through complex, distributed environments.

Quality Strategy & Influence:

• Proven success in working within standardized test practices across multiple engineering teams and development cycles.
• Solid understanding of modern QA methodologies, including Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), risk-based testing, and effective defect triage within an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Hands-on experience with various API protocols and testing methods, and integrating these checks into automated, pre-deployment workflows.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and how they impact deployment and testing strategies is highly desirable.

Ownership & Collaboration:

• Ability to translate ambiguous business objectives into precise, measurable, and exhaustive test strategies and acceptance criteria.
• Proactive mindset in challenging and constructively questioning requirements to ensure product quality is prioritized before development begins.
• Ability to work independently on assigned tasks while actively communicating progress and blockers to the wider team.
• Strong communication skills to articulate complex system quality risks and findings effectively to both technical peers and executive stakeholders.

Remote Work Requirements:

• An established private work area that ensures information privacy
• Reliable internet capable of low latency with the ability to carry video and voice calls without breaking up
• This role is remote, but you will be required to come to on-site meetings multiple times per year. This may be during the interview process, onboarding, and for team meetings

Perks:

Joining Arine offers you a dynamic role and the opportunity to contribute to the company's growth and shape its future. You'll have unparalleled learning and growth prospects, collaborating closely with experienced Clinicians, Engineers, Software Architects, and Digital Health Entrepreneurs.

The posted range represents the expected salary for this position and does not include any other potential components of the compensation package, benefits, and perks. Ultimately, the final pay decision will consider factors such as your experience, job level, location, and other relevant job-related criteria. The salary range for this position is: $120,000-130,000/year.

Job Requirements:

• Ability to pass a background check
• Must live in and be eligible to work in the United States

Information Security Roles and Responsibilities:

All staff at Arine are expected to be part of its Information Security Management Program and undergo periodic training on Information Security Awareness and HIPAA guidelines. Each user is responsible to maintain a secure working environment and follow all policies and procedures. Upon hire, each person is assigned and must complete trainings before access is granted for their specific role within Arine.

Check our website at https://www.arine.io. This is a unique opportunity to join a growing start-up revolutionizing the healthcare industry!

Arine is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees are treated with fairness and respect. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other legally protected status. Our hiring decisions and employment practices are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply and join us in our mission.

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Note to Recruitment Agencies: We appreciate your interest in finding talent for Arine, but please be advised that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies. All resumes submitted to Arine without a prior written agreement in place will be considered property of Arine, and no fee will be paid in the event of a hire. Thank you for your understanding.