Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Are you looking to have a social impact? Would you like to significantly impact leading research teams around the world studying COVID-19, Alzheimer's disease, and effects of abuse and neglect in children to name just a few?

Ripple Science, a seed stage, health IT startup, is currently scaling to support large, enterprise research organizations and Contract Research Organizations (CROs).  Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, we are looking for a full stack engineer to join our development team in Ann Arbor. The engineer will play a key role in scaling and feature expansion of a web-based platform used in translational and clinical research trials. At Ripple Science, we accelerate life science research by transforming how research teams approach the recruitment and management of research participants through a complex, IRB approved protocol with our participant management software, Ripple SaaS. Ripple is used by research investigators at more than 100 academic and research centers around the world, including Johns Hopkins University, Pennsylvania State University, University of California Los Angeles, the Brain Research Foundation Canada, University of East Anglia (UK), Cognito Therapeutics (Boston, MA) and the University of Michigan.

Ripple Science is excited to be named among the top tech startups in Ann Arbor as written by the Tech Tribune!
http://thetechtribune.com/10-best-tech-startups-in-ann-arbor/

 

EXPECTATIONS

Work directly with the dev team, Chief Architect, Product Manager, Developers, QA Automation, DevOps & CTO, to expand and improve QA automation for an existing React - Node.js application. Attend daily standups with the development team. Work in three week sprints. Interact with sales, marketing, and support, all working together to exceed customer and user expectations. We need QA developers in the local South East Michigan region to be integrated, full-time, with our team. Competitive salary, options, and benefits package, including medical, 401K, and the opportunity to earn company equity.
 

• You have advanced computer science skills, including a shareable project example of automation scripts, written in the language of your choosing. Internally we use Selenium and Java. 
• Javascript, Java, Python, or can transition to these platforms easily.
• Test planning, QA script development,  and software product testing experience.
• You are a deep thinker who sees the big picture and loves to solve the hard problems.
• You are end-user driven and focus on the use case first to ensure we test all edge conditions to produce features our users will love.
• You thrive working in the fast, scrappy, lean, startup world without fancy project managers and layers of decision makers. We take calculated risks. 
• You design and write clean, easy-to-understand scripts.
• You adapt rapidly to new stacks and are comfortable with hosted cloud services.

BENEFITS
 

• Competitive salary
• Medical insurance
• 401K match
• Paid vacations
• Opportunity to earn company equity

Ripple Science accelerates clinical research with its secure HIPAA-compliant suite of tools. By adapting sales and marketing automation concepts to the processes of patient recruitment and retention, Ripple's full stack web app helps our customers recruit more participants, faster and reduces loss to follow-up. Ripple Science’s flagship product, Ripple SaaS, is currently being used by research investigators at more than 100 academic and research centers around the world, including Johns Hopkins University, Pennsylvania State University, University of California Los Angeles, the Brain Research Foundation Canada, University of East Anglia (UK), Cognito Therapeutics (Boston, MA) and the University of Michigan.