Senior Software Quality Engineer

Senior Software Quality Engineer
Location: Remote | USA

About the Jaeb Center for Health Research
The Jaeb Center is a nonprofit organization based in Tampa, Florida, serving primarily as a Coordinating Center for multi-center clinical trials. To learn more about current projects and research initiatives, please visit www.jaeb.org.
  Summary
The Senior Software Quality Engineer serves as the technical leader responsible for the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of JCHR’s software quality engineering capabilities.

This role owns the technical strategy and architecture for software quality engineering across JCHR’s internally developed applications. The role partners closely with Software Engineers, Clinical Operations, Data Management, and leadership to ensure software systems are reliable, maintainable, validated, and fit for use in regulated clinical research environments.

This is a hands-on engineering role. The successful candidate will spend significant time writing code, building automation, developing testing infrastructure, analyzing systems, and improving engineering tooling—not defining testing processes or managing test execution.

Duties and Responsibilities
Quality Engineering Leadership

• Own Jaeb's technical strategy and architecture for software quality engineering.
• Define and maintain software testing standards, practices, and governance.
• Establish quality metrics and reporting used to measure product health and release readiness.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across development, testing, and deployment processes.
• Act as the organization's subject matter expert for quality engineering.

AI-Enabled Quality Engineering

• Use AI coding and agentic development tools to accelerate test creation, maintenance, analysis, and defect investigation.
• Evaluate emerging AI-native software engineering practices and determine where they can safely improve software quality, development velocity, and engineering effectiveness.
• Explore autonomous and semi-autonomous testing approaches, including AI-generated test cases, browser-based testing, and intelligent regression analysis.
• Develop controls and validation practices for software and tests produced with AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Establish practical patterns for incorporating AI into the software development lifecycle while maintaining appropriate human oversight and regulatory controls.

Test Architecture & Framework Ownership

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade automated testing frameworks.
• Develop standards and reusable components for automated testing across unit, integration, API, system, and end-to-end testing, with appropriate approaches for performance, accessibility, security, and other specialized testing needs.
• Define testing architecture patterns used across software products.
• Evaluate and implement testing tools, frameworks, and platforms.
• Ensure testing capabilities scale with business and technical growth.

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
Software Engineering

• Strong software development practices
• Object-oriented design
• API architecture
• SQL/database concepts
• Git
• CI/CD

Quality Engineering

• Test architecture
• Automated testing
• Risk-based testing
• Test data management
• Test observability

Infrastructure

• Containers
• CI/CD infrastructure

AI

• AI-assisted software development
• AI coding tools
• Agentic development/testing concepts

Regulated Environments

• FDA/GxP
• 21 CFR Part 11
• Software validation

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or a related field preferred; an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.
• Five or more years of relevant experience in software quality engineering, test automation, software engineering, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience with modern software engineering and test automation technologies; experience with .NET, Azure, Azure DevOps, Playwright, or similar technologies is desirable.
• Experience designing and implementing automated testing frameworks.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with source control, automated builds, and deployment automation.
• Demonstrated ability to architect scalable automation solutions.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and application architecture.
• Experience supporting FDA-regulated or GxP environments.
• Knowledge of 21 CFR Part 11 requirements.

Work Environment
This position operates in a professional office and/or remote (home-based) work environment. The role routinely uses standard computer-based equipment such as computers, monitors, keyboards, telecommunication tools (e.g., phone, video conferencing, and secure electronic fax tools such as Sfax), and related technology. Some positions may require periodic in-person attendance or travel based on organizational or project needs.

Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to remain in a stationary position for extended periods (sitting and/or standing) and operate a computer and other standard office equipment. The employee frequently uses hands and fingers for keyboarding and handling documents or other work materials. The employee must be able to communicate effectively and exchange accurate information with others, including through phone, video, and in-person meetings. The employee may occasionally be required to move or lift items up to 25 pounds, consistent with role and business needs. This role requires the ability to view and interpret information on a computer screen and in written materials for extended periods, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Position Type / Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position. The regular work schedule is Monday through Friday. Core hours are generally 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time (ET). Work hours may be adjusted for employees in other time zones or to meet operational needs, with supervisor approval, to ensure appropriate coverage and collaboration. Occasional additional hours may be required.

Equal Employment Opportunity / Drug-Free Workplace
Jaeb Center for Health Research is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug-Free Workplace.

Note: This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.