Quality Assurance Engineer (Healthcare)

TL;DR

Quality Assurance Engineer (Healthcare): Ensuring high quality, reliability, and scalability of backend services in a modern cloud-based environment with an accent on refining user stories, designing test plans, and implementing automated tests. Focus on AWS components (SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, EventBridge), API contract testing, and security compliance, ensuring consistent and high-quality experience.

Location: Asuncion, Paraguay (Hybrid)

Company

hirify.global is a leading software and digital engineering services company with global market reach and capabilities.

What you will do

• Partner with product, engineering, and design teams to refine user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Design, develop, and document comprehensive test plans and test cases for new and existing backend services.
• Develop and maintain Postman API tests and automated integration test suites targeting backend services and data flows across AWS components.
• Implement and manage API contract testing to validate integrations and ensure data consistency across internal and external services.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to define and test security, access control, and compliance requirements for backend services handling sensitive data.
• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) to establish continuous quality gates and support safe, frequent deployments.

Requirements

• Experienced QA professional with 5+ years of experience in startup or fast-paced environments, combining strong manual testing skills with automated testing capabilities.
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience testing AWS-based backend architectures using Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of testing patterns for distributed systems and AWS services such as SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, and EventBridge.
• Proficiency in a modern programming language such as Python, Java, or TypeScript for writing and maintaining automated test suites.
• Proven experience designing and implementing automated integration, end-to-end, and component tests.
• Familiarity with agile development practices and bug tracking tools (e.g. JIRA, BrowserStack).

Nice to have

• Experience in the healthcare domain is considered an advantage.

Culture & Benefits

• Professional growth and meaningful projects.
• Open culture and a strong work-life balance.
• Opportunity to work in a growing and future-oriented sector, contributing to high-impact digital solutions.
• Hybrid work model.
• Focus on curiosity and continuous learning as technology evolves.