At Guardant Health our mission is to conquer cancer with data; as such software sits at the core of everything we do. While we’re best known for our molecular diagnostics, which unlock the genomic signatures of cancer, these tests are just the first step in the equation. Turning this genomic data into actionable insights shared with thousands of patients, physicians, and researchers in a scalable, reliable, and secure fashion is a software product challenge.                        

“We wanted flying cars and instead we got 140 characters” is a much-repeated complaint about Silicon Valley. But with all due respect to flying cars, we believe that our mission is even more critical. We’ve raised more than $500M from some of the leading venture firms in the world to work on this problem.                      

We are building a unique software stack to manage an ecosystem of microservices, RESTful APIs, and data integrations with internal and external systems to deliver useful and elegant user experiences in the extraordinarily complex oncology diagnostic and therapeutic landscape. We connect patients with clinical trials, help clinicians order our test and receive our clinical reports, and deliver valuable genomic datasets to researchers to help uncover important insights into treatment paradigms and drug discovery. Our technology stack reflects our views of using the best tools for the job, employing Java, Python, Ruby along with Kubernetes, Docker, Mule, MySQL, MongoDB, high-performance computing clusters (HPC), and a variety of AWS services to analyze and disseminate vast volumes of genomic data.

About the Role

The Software team is looking for an experienced and energetic software quality engineer to help drive software quality, continuous integration and delivery of exceptional user experiences.

In this role you will primarily work on Data Integrations between healthcare systems (EMR/EHR) using industry standards and protocols (HL7, JSON, XML, RESTFul/SOAP APIs). In addition, you will find many opportunities to work on other software components of the Guardant software stack.   

As a member of the Software team, you will:

• Work with very interesting technologies and datasets (human genomics)
• Participate in requirements and design review meetings to create comprehensive test strategies/plans
• Design, create, enhance, and maintain detailed test cases and conduct hands-on testing, including integration testing
• Provide accurate planning, clear strategies, and milestones for testing leading to successful implementation and timely project completion
• Report, track and escalate anomalies discovered during testing (All testing phases) and ensure closure on issues
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and robust execution of testing as part of a regular release schedule
• Assist in creating, maintaining, and running automated testing frameworks
• Assist with defining and implementing software quality improvement initiatives
• Perform other duties as assigned 

About You       

You have the ability to understand system architecture, design, implementation and succinctly develop test approach and test cases  to deliver high-quality results.

You can work proactively, independently and as part of a team on multiple tasks and projects, and quickly learn new technologies.

You enjoy an agile, fast paced and highly technical environment. You are comfortable with receiving and providing constructive feedback.

In addition, you bring

• 5+ years of hands-on testing experience, including data-driven, web-based applications, services and RESTFul APIs, Linux/open source stack
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL data stores
• 3+ years of experience with healthcare systems (EMR/EHR) and related interfaces and communication protocols (e.g. HL7)
• Good knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as Java, Ruby, Python, Shell
• Prior experience in automation tools and frameworks like Selenium, Cucumber, Telerik, Robot Framework
• Experience in analyzing and evaluating data transmissions between distributed systems (e.g. EMR/EHR, payer systems)
• Hands-on knowledge of publish-subscribe messaging and message queuing
• Strong experience in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and testing of custom, complex business applications
• Experience in debugging distributed systems and applications
• Experience working in an Agile team
• B.S or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Bioinformatics, or a related study or equivalent project experience

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.