You + Helix

Helix is a place where innovators and doers gather in order to drive significant progress in population genomics. We have come together to work at the intersection of clinical care, research, and genomics.  

If you’re excited by the idea of making a meaningful impact and joining a team where we pride ourselves on driving innovation through fostering an environment with an emphasis on empowering one another to grow, Helix might be the place for you!

Helix + The World

Our end-to-end population genomics platform enables health systems, life sciences companies, and payers to advance genomic research and accelerate the integration of genomic data into routine clinical care. We support all aspects of population genomics from recruitment to translational research and help our partners use genomics to improve health outcomes, increase patient engagement, and lower costs.   Leading health systems, including Renown Health, AdventHealth, and Mayo Clinic, use our population genomics platform to power some of the world’s largest and fastest-growing population genomics initiatives.

For the COVID-19 public health crisis, Helix has built one of the nation’s largest COVID diagnostic labs and has been on the leading edge of national viral surveillance efforts tracking B.1.1.7 and other viral strains.

What You’ll Do:

• 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.
• 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.

About you:

• 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 has to offer you

Aside from working alongside brilliant, dedicated, passionate, down-to-earth, curious, warm, and thoughtful people, we also provide great benefits:

• Remote working capabilities 
• 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
• 401(k) with employer matching
• Flexible PTO

Helix is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.