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Automation Engineer

@ Virtasant
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Austin, Texas, United States
RemoteFull Time
Responsibilities:build features, test software, secure platform
Requirements Summary:Bachelor's in CS or software engineering; 3+ years in software development; experience building full-stack web apps; strong JS/TS/React; API/data services; security practices; CI/CD; testing; AI experience.
Technical Tools Mentioned:Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Cypress, REST-assured, Postman, Grafana k6, GitHub Actions, Copilot, Playwright, AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation
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About Virtasant

Virtasant is a global technology services company with a network of over 4,000 technology professionals across 130+ countries. We specialize in cloud architecture, infrastructure, migration, and optimization, helping enterprises scale efficiently while maintaining cost control.

Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to fast-growing startups, relying on us to build high-performance infrastructure, optimize cloud environments, and enable continuous delivery at scale.


About the role

Our client is a US-based intelligence platform that delivers AI-powered solutions to streamline access to quality care. They achieve this by improving healthcare economics, payer-provider collaboration, and cost containment.

This is a unique opportunity to join a software engineering team that is growing quickly. You will build impactful healthcare technology on a modern stack utilizing your full-stack software engineering background.

What You’ll Do

  • Work on fast-paced, collaborative, agile teams to build and enhance a growing software platform together

  • Be responsible for end-to-end feature releases and platform enhancements delivered by the team

  • Actively support the technical design process, bringing your expertise and analysis to help make data-driven decisions

  • Contribute heavily to feature design, development, testing, and delivery of our cloud platform and web applications

  • Support all parts of our platform from the database to the frontend

  • Continuously discover, understand, and implement new technologies & services to maximize development efficiency

  • Contribute to a culture committed to testing, quality, and attention to detail by supporting best practices such as writing and maintaining comprehensive test coverage

  • Actively participate in ensuring the client maintains a disciplined approach to healthcare security



What We’re Looking For

Must-Have Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience

  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in the software development lifecycle required

  • Experience working on software development teams, building and deploying full-stack web applications

  • You can collaborate closely with teammates in product and design to build applications providing healthcare practitioners with the highest quality user experience

  • You are passionate about building quality products and want to own product development end-to-end, with excellent design and development standards

  • Experience designing and implementing scalable data services and APIs

  • Experience building applications using Java, Javascript, TypeScript, and React

  • Experience with web application security practices like XSS, CORS, CSRF protection, Clickjacking protection, and SQL Injection

  • Experience with and deep knowledge of Cypress (JavaScript or TypeScript)

  • Experience with and deep knowledge of REST-assured API testing framework and Postman

  • Experience with and good knowledge of Grafana k6 performance automated testing

  • Experience with CI/CD with Github Actions workflow

  • You have experience with common software development practices such as version control, and unit testing

  • Prior experience setting up automation frameworks for UI as well as API testing from the ground up

  • AI experience, such as working with Copilot, Amazon Q agents, or Playwright MCP.

  • You are a team player and are interested in working at a fast-paced startup environment

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with scripting using Groovy

  • Experience with Atlantis and Playwright

  • Experience building and deploying software to modern cloud infrastructure using AWS and Terraform or CloudFormation

  • Prior experience in healthcare and life sciences is a plus but is not required

Our recruitment process

  • Recruiter interview (30 min)

  • Technical interview (30 min)

  • (Client) Hiring Manager interview (30 min)

  • (Client) Technical interview (45 min)

  • (Client) Security Engineering interview (30 min)

  • (Client) (optional) Head of Engineering interview (30 min)

We strive to move efficiently from step to step to make the recruitment process as fast as possible.

What we offer

  • Totally remote, full-time (40h/week)

  • Work hours - US Eastern time office hours (with some flexibility)

  • Long-term, no-end-date, independent contractor agreement

  • Payment in USD, biweekly or monthly - your choice