Quality Engineer I

Availity develops healthcare revenue-cycle and engagement solutions. The Quality Assurance Engineer I improves product quality by preventing and detecting defects, evaluating test results, and collaborating with developers and product stakeholders on test planning, automation, execution, and product validation.

Responsibilities:

• The Quality Assurance Engineer I is responsible for continuously improving the quality of the company’s product line by preventing, quickly detecting, and validating product and process defects, to deliver market and customer driven business results
• You will evaluate the test results, prepare change requests, and generate measures to assess the product quality
• In this role you will work with an integrated team of developers, product managers, product owners, and system analysts for test planning, test Automation and execution, and product validation
• Assigned to a Scrum team, you will be developing test plans, test scenarios and test cases based on the business, user, and functional/nonfunctional requirements
• Participating in daily stand ups, sprint planning and refinement meetings
• Utilizing JIRA for project planning and tracking
• Collaborating with the Product Owner and Engineers on a regular basis
• Conducting automated tests using user-level test automation tools and/or behavioral-driven test scenarios
• Validating and documenting the completion of testing and development processes to ensure compliance standards are met
• Learning new things & sharing your knowledge with others
• Uses AI-assisted tools (e.g., Copilot‑style tools) to improve testing efficiency, such as drafting test scenarios, accelerating automation development, analyzing failures, and supporting root-cause investigation — with human judgment and verification
• Leverages AI to support test completeness by identifying gaps, exploring edge cases, and assessing risk across functional and non-functional scenarios
• Applies AI to summarize test results, logs, and failures to raise awareness, communicate risk clearly, and support timely escalation
• Uses AI responsibly to speed analysis and decision-making while validating outputs before applying them to testing or release decisions

Requirements:

• 1+ years of experience in quality assurance and testing best practices (internships, co-ops, or project work considered)
• Exposure to writing test automation, front end and/or back end, with a desire to grow automation skills
• Working knowledge of JavaScript, Python, C# (or similar languages used for test automation and tooling)
• Familiarity with an IDE (VS Code, Eclipse, or similar) to run and debug automated tests, and basic source control workflows (commit changes, create pull/merge requests)
• Familiarity with test management and manual/automated testing tools for regression, cross browser, and functional testing
• Basic understanding of cloud concepts (AWS, Azure including environments, deployments, and cloud‑hosted architectures)
• Exposure to continuous integration tools (GitLab CI for pipeline execution and test integration)
• Ability to write clear, reproducible, high quality bugs and defects
• Exposure to API testing with tools such as Insomnia or Postman
• Ability to work within team and cross-functionally to deliver outcomes and demonstrate partnership and collaboration at all stages of the SDLC, working to raise Quality throughout the Availity organization
• Foundational knowledge of underlying technologies supporting the applications under test i.e., REST API's, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, SQL, SFTP, microservices, and cloud architecture
• Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position
• Exposure to an Agile/Scrum environment preferred
• Exposure to Cucumber and Selenium WebDriver is preferred
• AWS experience is a plus