Automation Engineer

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.

You need to be based in a Latin American country to be qualified for this role. Do not apply if you live elsewhere, as you'll be wasting your time.

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 deployingfull-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 frameworkandPostman

• 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 forUIas well asAPI 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