Software QA Engineer

Empatica

Empatica is a full-stack, digital healthcare company, forever changing the way health is monitored and new treatments are developed through our AI platform, digital biomarkers, and state-of-the-art medical wearables. Our customers range from some of the world’s largest institutions (such as NASA, Harvard University, and top-tier pharmaceutical companies, to name a few), to individual users who message us every day and tell us how our products changed their lives.

If you are looking to join a fast-paced growth environment and do meaningful work that can make a true impact in the world, then keep reading.

About the Role

We are looking for a Software QA Engineer who is passionate about our mission and is ready to take responsibility for the quality of products that can save people's lives. The perfect match for this role should understand the complexity and high stakes of working on medical-grade devices where ensuring the job is done right the first time is of utmost importance.

Quality is at the core of Empatica; as a Software QA Engineer, you will help designing and executing manual and automatic tests to make sure that new features are correctly implemented according to design and specifications.

By working at Empatica, you’ll have a real opportunity to improve lives around the world, as part of a tight-knit team who share knowledge and are eager to keep learning and improving to create top-notch products that have a meaningful impact. If you jump on board, we can guarantee it won't be an easy ride, but it will be one of the most rewarding experiences in your career, one that will allow you to learn a lot and test your whole skill-set on multiple projects, which are already helping thousands of people worldwide.

Your contribution to the mission

• Hunt down all the bugs with your QA logic mindset!
• Assess and ensure the quality level of every new release of our apps.
• Perform tests on mobile platforms connected to a wireless wearable device, with the mindset of our end-user.
• Expect to find problems, and propose solutions, not just to verify that everything is working as designed.
• Design, implement, and extend automation test scenarios for mobile phones and wearable devices.
• Validate every functionality of the product, you'll have the chance to learn how a state-of-the-art medical device works inside and out.
• Report issues and anomalies.
• Try to recreate failure scenarios and collect as much information as possible about the issue.
• Perform regression tests whenever a new release comes addressing issues or adding new features.
• Work with the product team to design, execute, and enhance release and testing plans.
• Support the growth and consolidation of the Quality culture within Empatica.

Some important details:

• Empatica is an international environment with offices in Europe and the US, and so we conduct all our work in English.
• We are operating a hybrid model where our employees choose whether to work from home or come to the office.

Requirements

The ideal candidate for this position:

• Has more than 3 years of experience in Manual Software Testing
• Has an IT background and knows how computer systems work under the hood (e.g., networking, OS, Authentication, RESTful services)
• Has experience in mobile testing for iOS and Android (knowledge of both platforms is a huge plus)
• Knows how to effectively collaborate with developers
• Is able to understand and use scripts and automations that might support the tests
• Is excited when finding unexpected problems!
• Is not afraid to try and explore parts of the system that might not be fully covered

🥇Even better

• Prior experience working on firmware testing and embedded devices is plus
• Has knowledge of web and API testing
• Worked in a regulated environment (e.g., medical, automotive, aerospace, finance)

Life at Empatica

You will join a fast-growing, international, and diverse team of 120+ talented people who care passionately about what we do and the difference we are making in the world. You’ll get the opportunity to work directly with colleagues across all levels of the organization, no matter their seniority, and learn from the people that built the business and our products.

If you jump on board, we can guarantee it won't be an easy ride, but it will be one of the most rewarding experiences in your career, one that will allow you to learn a lot, have true ownership of your work, and test your whole skillset on multiple projects which are helping thousands of people worldwide.

Read our blog post and find out some reasons why we love working at Empatica.

Inclusion & Diversity

At Empatica we embrace diversity and inclusion. We have colleagues from 27 different countries, while more than 50% of our team is women (double the tech average!) We believe this makes Empatica a more exciting and stimulating place to work, and brings different points of view to the table while fostering a spirit of communication, collaboration, and care, where everyone’s opinion and thoughts matter.

Benefits

• 🧠 Multiple opportunities to be challenged and step up your career in a fast-growth company in one of the hottest areas of tech
• 💰 Competitive salary
• 📈 Employee stock options - we want everyone who joins us to own part of the company and our success
• 🏖️ We have offices in Milan City Center and Downtown Boston. And every summer, we hold an amazing beach retreat in Sardinia, Italy
• 🏥 Health Insurance
• 🏋️‍♀️ Gympass membership with access to gyms, online classes, personal training sessions, and nutrition plans
• 😌 Membership for mental health and wellness platforms
• 🥗 Free healthy lunch every day
• 🤓 Free Kindle and books
• 🕰️ Flexible working hours
• 🧑‍🎓 Personal learning and development budget
• 🍪 Free cookies, if you deserve them
• 👀 Much more…