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 framework andPostman

• 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 forUI as 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