It’s our mission to empower every person to improve their life through DNA. We believe DNA will be digitally accessible to each person so that it can be used—at any time—to improve health outcomes and accelerate research.

Helix powers life-changing population health programs. Our world-class clinical laboratory platform and proprietary Exome+ assay enable health systems to integrate genomic information into routine clinical care and enhance the accessibility of personalized healthcare. Additionally, Helix stores and protects participants’ DNA information, so that as the science evolves, health systems, patients and researchers are able to continuously benefit from a lifetime of DNA insights.

Helix is also currently helping communities and health systems safely navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic by leveraging our state-of-the-art CLIA / CAP lab to provide an end-to-end, highly scalable solution to detect active COVID-19 infections. We provide ordering and return of results, sample collection, a high sensitivity and specificity assay, and a highly automated clinical laboratory.

Our big vision comes with big responsibility. That’s why we’re building a diverse team of experts in the field of genetics, engineering, design, business development, and beyond to help bring actionable insights to our customers.

What’s important to us:

• Curiosity — we are all passionate about the possibilities enabled by having access to your own genome
• Responsibility — we have an obligation to people and our partners to operate with highly credible research guided by well respected advisors, with clear and effective communication about our products
• Agility — flexibility and a desire to be nimble, smart, and effective are important to the Helix culture
• Follow-through — we’re building a diverse team with amazing track records of achievement in multidisciplinary environments

As a Senior Software Engineer in Test, you will:

• Be a strong proponent of agile quality practices, automation, and a continuous integration methodology.
• Work alongside software engineers in an agile environment.
• Participate in requirements and design review meetings to create comprehensive test strategies/plans.
• Work with the team developers to develop, document, and execute test cases.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and robust execution of testing as part of a regular release schedule.
• Be a trusted partner to the Regulatory team by collaborating with Regulatory Quality, Laboratory, and cross-functional departments to gather and implement regulatory and operational requirements for automation frameworks.
• Participate in requirements and design review meetings to create comprehensive test strategies/plans.
• Design, create, enhance, and maintain detailed test cases and conduct 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 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 quality improvement initiatives and automated testing frameworks.

Required:

• 5+ years' experience with quality assurance with a focus on software testing, design control of software development, software verification and validation.
• Ability to complete detailed documentation efficiently and accurately.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to present issues, plans and objectives.
• Excellent organizational, problem solving, and analytical skills.
• Working knowledge of at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Golang, Typescript).
• Experience with continuous integration platforms (e.g., CodePipeline, CircleCI, Jenkins, GoCD).
• Experience with agile methodologies and automation-first engineering practices.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks (e.g., xUnit, Cucumber, Gingko, Selenium, JMeter, k6, Locust).
• Experience testing cloud-native, microservice-based, software architectures.
• Experience testing serverless (e.g., AWS Lambda) and asynchronous (e.g., SQS) software architectures.
• A passion for improving people’s lives through access to better information about their DNA.
• A passion for helping build testing capacity for COVID-19.

Pluses:

• Experience in medical, biopharmaceutical or device industries.
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance frameworks including 21 CFR Part 11, 21 CFR 820, Medical Device Data Software (MDDS), GAMP 5, and HIPAA.

What Helix can offer you:

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• Health insurance, including medical, dental, and vision
• 12 weeks of Maternity or Paternity leave
• 4 weeks of paid Pregnancy Disability
• On-premise nursing room
• Commuter benefits
• Flexible PTO
• 401(k)